Today was… interesting. We started out with this creepy picture: Death and Devil Surprising Two Women. We spent some time talking about this picture, and this led into a discussion about Carpe Diem, the idea of seizing the day.

We then went to the Blog of Death and started looking at obituaries of extraordinary people. Not famous people, but people who really embodied the idea of Carpe Diem. We made Wordles based on those obituaries and sent them to Edmodo so Riley can print them in color.

Riley then shared with us that we will be writing our own obituaries tomorrow, and we looked at pre-writing questions and the obituary that Riley wrote. We need to make sure that we write this as if we are REALLY old. Don’t write this as if you died today. That’s creepy.

Some key points that we talked about:

• Obituaries are about the person’s life, not about the person’s death.
• Riley wants to be cremated.
• Don’t focus on the death when you write your obituary. That’s creepy and weird.

Also, if you WANT EXTRA CREDIT, please let Riley know (she’s going to send out an Edmodo alert today). She’ll create an account spo taht you can post things just like me! Except you’ll get credit for this!