4.1 ASSIGNMENT: Create Your Own Motto (Due February 15)

Create Your Own Motto
10 Points

Directions: In 1733, Benjamin Franklin, using the pseudonym Richard Saunders, began publishing Poor Richard's Almanack, which included agricultural predictions, charts of the moon's phases, and a series of proverbs, such as "haste makes waste." Franklin, acknowledged as one of America's Founding Fathers, especially for his role as a statesman, continued to publish his Almanack until 1758.
Here are some proverbs taken from Poor Richard's Almanack:

• There are no gains without pains.

• At the working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

• Industry pays debts while despair increases them.

• Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

• One today is worth two tomorrows.

• Have you something to do tomorrow? Do it today.

• Trouble springs from idleness and grievous toil from needless ease.

• The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?

• Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

• Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it. 

STEP 1: Go to THIS website, THIS website or conduct your own internet search for "Benjamin Franklin's proverbs from Poor Richard's Almanack" and browse the proverbs from Poor Richard's Almanack.  Find one that is interesting to you and that you can put in your own words.
STEP 2: Once you have your  motto ready, click "add submission" and type it in the submission box. Click "Save."

After you have completed this assignment, it will be marked as complete with a checkmark after it has been graded by the instructor.