Revealing Quotations by Margaret Kraus https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9 Select a few lines from the book that show the importance of an event or relate to the main idea of the book. Don't forget quotation marks and the page number! “Montezuma had allowed his superstitions and ego to cloud his reasoning. Unable to face change or new ideas, Montezuma’s closed mind doomed him to fail” (33). en-us 2021-10-18 23:07:26 UTC 2022-03-18 18:03:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Marco Polo, How they Choked https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088711028 "If he didn't get thrown in jail, fail as a soldier, and didn't meet his cellmate, we wouldn't have known he existed" ( ) ]]> 2022-03-10 16:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088711028 Scary times https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088711275 “The sign raids also gave us experience working with the threat of arrest hanging over our heads, or the prospect of being shot. You had to get used to it. You had to learn to breath around armed soldier. Your body works different in an atmosphere of danger or excitement. Even the smallest of missions can send your diaphragm into spasms when you have no experience. You start to breathe too fast. Some people laugh uncontrollably. The tongue loosens, Some say things they regret. Our's was a war without front, meaning the enemy was 360 degrees around us at all times.” PG 40]]> 2022-03-10 16:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088711275 Magellan Quote 10084462 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088711967 "Ferdinand Magellan was a cold, strict man who felt entitled to everything" (37).]]> 2022-03-10 16:32:57 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088711967 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088712297 Ferdinand Magellan
“... and every year the Filipinos stage a reenactment of Magellan’s death- that is how happy they were to see him die” (47).

]]> 2022-03-10 16:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088712297 Not afraid of the truth https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088712453
“When my turn came I told the court that the weapons were not play things to us. We planned to use them to support the British when they came to liberate us.”

]]> 2022-03-10 16:33:13 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088712453 Susan B. Anthony https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088712801 "In her lifetime, she failed to see her ultimate goal achieved--- women voting. But it was the United States government that failed her" (95). 

]]> 2022-03-10 16:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088712801 George Armstrong Custer https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088718844 "His arrogance, poor judgment, killer's ambition, and refusal to follow orders or listen to advice lost that battle for him" (107).]]> 2022-03-10 16:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088718844 Amelia M Earhart https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088924822
“Amelia Earhart’s own failings played the lead in her death. Risk without knowledge is just “winging it”- a daredevil attitude that will catch up to you sooner rather than later” (171).  

]]> 2022-03-10 18:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088924822 “If Marco Polo hadn’t had been a total failure as a soldier, and if he hadn’t been tossed in jail with Rutichellows, we never would have known he even existed" (9). https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088926731 pg 9 (marco polo)]]> 2022-03-10 18:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088926731 Amelia M. Earhart, How they Choked https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088926794 "Risk Without knowledge is just "winging it" (171).]]> 2022-03-10 18:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088926794 J. Bruce Ismay, How They Choked. https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088929327 "If J. Bruce Ismay had had a heart anywhere as big as his ship, he would have been going someplace"(135).]]> 2022-03-10 18:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088929327 J. Bruce Ismay https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088931616 "I'm Ismay, for God sake get me something to eat. Get me a stateroom" (142).

All he wanted was to survive and let other people die. HE IS SO MEAN, he is demanding for food!]]> 2022-03-10 18:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088931616 Bruce Ismay https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088933681 "Ismay wanted Smith for Titanic's maiden voyage, violating the unwritten rule of never hiring an officer who had been responsible for a previous disaster at sea"(139).]]> 2022-03-10 18:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088933681 How they choked: Thomas Alva Edison https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088934943
“...or maybe he needed all new wiring, the kind that makes you care about other living things.”   (119)

]]> 2022-03-10 18:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088934943 George Armstrong Custer, How They Choked. https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088937285 "His arrogance, poor judgment, killer's ambition, and refusal to follow orders or listen to advice lost that battle for him" (107).]]> 2022-03-10 18:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088937285 Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson. https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088938230 "I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fellow play ball." No one compared him to Shakespeare. But he was right" (154). ]]> 2022-03-10 18:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088938230 George Armstrong Custer, How They Choked https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088939452 "After Custer died, the Indian women found his corpse and bored a hole in his eardrums because George Armstrong Custer was a man who never listened"(107)]]> 2022-03-10 18:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088939452 Benedict Arnold, How They Choked https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088946707 "Benedict Arnold was a greedy liar and bully" (85).]]> 2022-03-10 18:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088946707 Vincent van Gogh - How they Choked https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088954918
“He is one of the greatest painters of all time. And for being such an original, Vincent van Gogh got bullied to death at thirty-seven” (131).]]> 2022-03-10 18:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088954918 Issac Newton https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088963819 "...he appeared sane and in control... But on the inside he was a loveless man..." (72). ]]> 2022-03-10 18:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088963819 shoeless joe jackson https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088964581 "If he had, he would've read about what happens to cheaters, and maybe joe jackson wouldn't have become one and wouldn't have fouled against how own talent"(149).      ]]> 2022-03-10 18:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088964581 Montezuma ll, How They Choked https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088971829 "Montezuma ll let his superstitions and ego cloud his reasoning" (33). ]]> 2022-03-10 18:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088971829 Montezuma II 1077858 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088978792 " Perhaps Montezuma's problem was that he took all things Aztec way over the top"(25).]]> 2022-03-10 18:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2088978792 "It's easier to blame someone who doesn't look like you" (117). -kimi tambara https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090521552 2022-03-11 14:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090521552 "Mitchell nailed it, right down to the hour of the Pearl Harbor attack" (19). https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090524056 2022-03-11 14:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090524056 Ismay 10036315 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090524442 "I did not wish to see her go down"(142). -J.Bruce Ismay

]]> 2022-03-11 14:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090524442 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090526130 “If you are determined, you can overcome your fears, and then you can change the world" (103). ]]> 2022-03-11 14:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090526130 Amelia Earhart https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090526272 She would never have been interested in flying airplanes if her dad never took her to see pilots fly (163).]]> 2022-03-11 14:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090526272 Susan B. Anthony https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090526939 "When she said, 'Failure is impossible,' Susan B. Anthony did what everyone should do after failing: she didn't give up" (95)]]> 2022-03-11 14:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090526939 “'I do say that the continued retention of these innocent people in the relocation centers would be a blot upon the history of this country"' (127). -Harold Ickes https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090529337 2022-03-11 14:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090529337 Susan B. Anthony https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090530750 "Nothing is more revolutionary than fairness and kindness, and the belief that human beings are linked but should not be ranked" (95).]]> 2022-03-11 14:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090530750 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090531939
“I have never ceased being amazed at how quickly we related to the surprise attack on pearl harbor… We never had disaster drills. Yet when we realized we were actually at war, every person on that ship knew instinctively what  to do” (90).

]]> 2022-03-11 14:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090531939 Amelia Earhart: Winging it https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090534640 "Amelia Earhart was a beautiful risk taker, and she went where her talents and the wind blew her. No one in history was ever quite like her"(171).]]> 2022-03-11 14:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090534640 "They tried to comfort me, to ease my fear. They talked about the significance of what we were doing and how far we had come in this struggle. But i could not be comforted" (81). 10340641 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090545765 2022-03-11 14:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090545765 Marco Polo, How they Choked"If he didn't get thrown in jail, fail as a soldier, and didn't meet his cellmate, we wouldn't have known he existed" ( )heart_outline5comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentMagellan QuoteMagellan Quote"Ferdinand Magellan was a cold, strict man who felt entitled to everything" (37).heart_filled6comment_outline1Avatar of AARON MOSSAARON MOSS22hso trueYour avatarAdd commentshoeless joe jacksonshoeless joe jackson"If he had, he would've read about what happens to cheaters, and maybe joe jackson wouldn't have become one and wouldn't have fouled against how own talent"(149). heart_outline1comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentFerdinand MagellanFerdinand Magellan“... and every year the Filipinos stage a reenactment of Magellan’s death- that is how happy they were to see him die” (47).heart_filled3comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentSusan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony"In her lifetime, she failed to see her ultimate goal achieved--- women voting. But it was the United States government that failed her" (95). heart_outline1comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentGeorge Armstrong CusterGeorge Armstrong Custer"His arrogance, poor judgment, killer's ambition, and refusal to follow orders or listen to advice lost that battle for him" (107).heart_outline1comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentAmelia M EarhartAmelia M Earhart“Amelia Earhart’s own failings played the lead in her death. Risk without knowledge is just “winging it”- a daredevil attitude that will catch up to you sooner rather than later” (171). heart_outline1comment_outline0Your avatarAdd comment“If Marco Polo hadn’t had been a total failure as a soldier, and if he hadn’t been tossed in jail with Rutichellows, we never would have known he even existed" (9).“If Marco Polo hadn’t had been a total failure as a soldier, and if he hadn’t been tossed in jail with Rutichellows, we never would have known he even existed" (9).pg 9 (marco polo)heart_outline2comment_outline1Avatar of %{name}Anonymous22heYour avatarAdd commentAmelia M. Earhart, How they ChokedAmelia M. Earhart, How they Choked"Risk Without knowledge is just "winging it" (171).heart_outline2comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentJ. Bruce Ismay, How They Choked.J. Bruce Ismay, How They Choked."If J. Bruce Ismay had had a heart anywhere as big as his ship, he would have been going someplace"(135).heart_outline2comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentJ. Bruce IsmayJ. Bruce Ismay"I'm Ismay, for God sake get me something to eat. Get me a stateroom" (142).All he wanted was to survive and let other people die. HE IS SO MEAN, he is demanding for food!heart_filled3comment_outline2Avatar of %{name}Anonymous22hcoolAvatar of %{name}Anonymous22hnice pic lolYour avatarAdd commentBruce IsmayBruce Ismay"Ismay wanted Smith for Titanic's maiden voyage, violating the unwritten rule of never hiring an officer who had been responsible for a previous disaster at sea"(139).heart_filled2comment_outline2Avatar of JACK MCLOUGHLINJACK MCLOUGHLIN22hthis was good!Avatar of AARON MOSSAARON MOSS22hthanks!Your avatarAdd commentHow they choked: Thomas Alva EdisonHow they choked: Thomas Alva Edison“...or maybe he needed all new wiring, the kind that makes you care about other living things.” (119)heart_outline1comment_outline3Avatar of %{name}Anonymous22hEDIT!!!!!Avatar of JACK MCLOUGHLINJACK MCLOUGHLIN22hplease editAvatar of AARON MOSSAARON MOSS22hfinnalyYour avatarAdd commentGeorge Armstrong Custer, How They Choked.George Armstrong Custer, How They Choked."His arrogance, poor judgment, killer's ambition, and refusal to follow orders or listen to advice lost that battle for him" (107).heart_outline2comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentJoseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson.Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson."I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fellow play ball." No one compared him to Shakespeare. But he was right" (154). heart_outline2comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentGeorge Armstrong Custer, How They ChokedGeorge Armstrong Custer, How They Choked"After Custer died, the Indian women found his corpse and bored a hole in his eardrums because George Armstrong Custer was a man who never listened"(107)heart_outline1comment_outline1Avatar of SARISH BHOSEKARSARISH BHOSEKAR1mwhy did you copyYour avatarAdd commentBenedict Arnold, How They ChokedBenedict Arnold, How They Choked"Benedict Arnold was a greedy liar and bully" (85).heart_outline1comment_outline1Avatar of %{name}Anonymous22hEDITTTYour avatarAdd commentVincent van Gogh - How they ChokedVincent van Gogh - How they Choked“He is one of the greatest painters of all time. And for being such an original, Vincent van Gogh got bullied to death at thirty-seven” (131).heart_outline2comment_outline1Avatar of AARON MOSSAARON MOSS22hso sad.Your avatarAdd commentIssac NewtonIssac Newton"...he appeared sane and in control... But on the inside he was a loveless man..." (72).heart_outline2comment_outline1Avatar of %{name}Anonymous1mGreat quote!Your avatarAdd commentJ. Bruce IsmayJ. Bruce Ismay"I'm Ismay, for God sake get me something to eat. Get me a stateroom" (142).All he wanted was to survive and let other people die. HE IS SO MEAN, he is demanding for food!heart_outline2comment_outline4Avatar of %{name}Anonymous22hidkAvatar of JR ARANDAJR ARANDA2hisn't this the same as the on up moreAvatar of AARON MOSSAARON MOSS1mya someone copied alvins one from earlierAvatar of ALVIN GAITAN SANCHEZALVIN GAITAN SANCHEZ1mwho keeps doing this!?!?Your avatarAdd commentMontezuma ll, How They ChokedMontezuma ll, How They Choked"Montezuma ll let his superstitions and ego cloud his reasoning" (33). heart_outline0comment_outline2Avatar of JR ARANDAJR ARANDA3hisn't that on the chalk boardAvatar of AARON MOSSAARON MOSS1mikrYour avatarAdd commentMontezuma IIMontezuma II" Perhaps Montezuma's problem was that he took all things Aztec way over the top"(25).heart_outline0comment_outline1Avatar of Margaret KrausMargaret Kraus3hThere are stronger quotes to show Montezuma's evilnessYour avatarAdd commentIsmayIsmayThis is Ismay"I did not wish to see her go down"(142). -J.Bruce Ismayheart_outline1comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentAmelia EarhartAmelia EarhartShe would never have been interested in flying airplanes if her dad never took her to see pilots fly (163).heart_outline3comment_outline1Avatar of AARON MOSSAARON MOSS1mtypoYour avatarAdd commentSusan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony"When she said, 'Failure is impossible,' Susan B. Anthony did what everyone should do after failing: she didn't give up" (95)heart_outline1comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentSusan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony"Nothing is more revolutionary than fairness and kindness, and the belief that human beings are linked but should not be ranked" (95).heart_outline0comment_outline0Your avatarAdd commentAmelia Earhart: Winging itAmelia Earhart: Winging it"Amelia Earhart was a beautiful risk taker, and she went where her talents and the wind blew her. No one in history was ever quite l 1077858 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090874171 2022-03-11 17:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090874171 George Armstrong Custer 10065273 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090888496 Custer, basically a peacock with a pistol, would be leading the weakened U.S. cavalry against strong leaders like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and their warriors who were fighting for their very existence.

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This quote shows that George Custer is a very cocky person being described as a peacock a very cocky vibrant bird and at the same time he is described as stylish like a peacock a very bright and shining bird that shows off its colors decoratively]]> 2022-03-11 18:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090888496 George Armstrong Custer 10065273 https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090956531 He was remembered for having the worst grades in the class, the most demerits, and the messiest room.

This early on it shows hes cocky arrogant and very selfish every job thrown at him he somehow fails he even fails at his own hygiene with his room being a mess]]> 2022-03-11 18:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/margaretkraus/uryz8b6fdvlcdtg9/wish/2090956531