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LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION
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please click on the “Letters of Recommendation” tab at left
and read the instructions.
 
 
{MOUNT}
Or like stout Mr. Leib with eagle eyes;
He stared at Ho-ho-kus—and with all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
 
{self}
A recent photograph of Mr. Leib teaching Honors British Literature.
 
{q-c}
 
Almost always prefer the concrete word to the abstraction.
Almost always prefer the direct word to the circumlocution.
— Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
 
{Maugham}

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately,
no one knows what they are.—W. Somerset Maugham
 
{Cervantes}
 

Express yourself in a plain, easy manner, in well-chosen,
significant, and decent terms, and give an harmonious
and pleasing turn to your periods.—Miguel de Cervantes
 
{france}
 
 
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.—Anatole France
 
{Twain}
The difference between the right word and
the almost right word is the difference between
 lightning and the lightning bug.—Mark Twain
{berra}
 
 
 
When you come to a fork in the road,
take it.—Lawrence P. Berra
 
 
 
 
To view current assignments for
English 9,
click on English 9 at left.
 
To view current assignments for
Honors British Literature,
click on Honours British Literature at left.
 
To view current assignments for
Honors Humanities,
click on Honors Humanities at left.
 
 
I have started holding short writing/grammar seminars. Come join me and your fellow students
every Wednesday morning at 7:15.
Click on the links below for the PowerPoints that accompany the seminars:
 
 
 
 
The source for everything Chaucer: http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/
 
 
 
 
A list of good transition words and phrases.

For a free sample SAT, click here.
(You must register with the College Board
to access the test.)

My e-mail address:
leibp
at
northernhighlands.org

My telephone extension:
408

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