Excerpt from "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"

A former minister, Robert Fulghum turned to writing, painting, and sculpting to express his views on life. Here are some lessons he learned and presented in his book of essays.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Self-Reliance, Where I Lived, poems about transcendental thinking, All I Really Need to Know, Into the Wild (excerpts), Into the Wild, A View from Mount Ritter, multi-genre research project sample, Sparky, Charles M. Schulz
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  1. credo
    any system of principles or beliefs
    Each spring, for many years, I have set myself the task of writing a personal statement of belief: a Credo.
  2. cynical
    believing the worst of human nature and motives
    The Credo has grown shorter in recent years--sometimes cynical
  3. bland
    lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
    sometimes comical, sometimes bland--but I keep working at it
  4. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
    I set out to get the statement of personal belief down to one page in simple terms, fully understanding the naive idealism that implied...
  5. complicated
    difficult to analyze or understand
    I realized then that I already know most of what's necessary to live a meaningful life--that it isn't all that complicated.
  6. wisdom
    using knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
    Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday school.
  7. flush
    rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
    Wash your hands before you eat.
    Flush.
  8. balance
    a state of equilibrium
    Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
  9. wonder
    the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
    Be aware of wonder.
  10. policy
    a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
    Or if all governments had as a basic policy to to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
Created on Sun Nov 16 01:33:16 EST 2014 (updated Mon Nov 17 02:32:54 EST 2014)

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