Daily Archives: October 31, 2012

IV – 10/31/2012

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Well, it looks like we won’t be able to use the webpage that we started yesterday – we are going to use www.bucketlist.net. Create an account, but you don’t need an e-mail address to use this one.

We also finished the BucketList pre-writing from yesterday. The questions aren’t long, but they do make you think. Be prepared.

Make sure that once you create your account, find and join the tribe “Vistas” so that I can give you credit for your list. Make sure that your Bucketlist has at least ten meaningful items on it – these are BIG things to accomplish – not a to-do list for the week. This will be due on Friday.

After this, Riley had us listen to BOC’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper.” We discussed it and answered three simple questions in the discussion board.

Riley then gaves us the intructions for the Obituary, which is our first major grade. Instructions are in LMS – but make sure that you choose an OLD age – nothing young. That’s creepy. Also, don’t focus on your death or how you’ll die – that’s not the point of the activity. The point of the activity is to prove how you “care diem’ed” your life.

Riley’s sample obit is up there for you to read. For examples, check out the Blog of Death and examples from former students.

Tomorrow, we will read “The Dash”, look at the Blog of Death, write our obituaries, and create a word cloud of our lives to print in color.

 

III – 10/31/2012

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Today, Riley handed us ten different Post-It notes and we read The Live the Dream. For each person (6 in total), read their story and then come up with ONE WORD on the Post-It note that represents their American Dream.

Then, we read and listened to four songs:

Coming to America

There are No Cats in America

The American Dream

The River

Again, for each song, some up with one word that represents the American Dream in the song.

Pretty easy day!

IV – 10/30/2012

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Today, we used our Gaggle e-mail accounts to create an account with Bucketlist.org. Make sure that you are opening the link in its own window – if you try to open this inside the frame of LMS, you won’t be able to login.

We checked out the discussion board over Death and Devil Surprising Two Maidens – we had a great discussion over it! It’s amazing the things you guys identify and notice.

Riley showed us a clip over carpe diem from Dead Poet’s Society, and then we did the Carpe Diem tower translation. For each sentence, write a translation in the bottom square. Throw in an appropriate piece of clip art – you may have to resize the font. Print it for yourself – keep it in your folder, but drop off the PDF in teh Drop Box so Riley can grade it.

Some people started the Bucketlist pre-writing, but Riley said she’d give us time tomorrow to work on this.