Today was a really easy day! This was a guinea pig assignment, so please, if you find any mistakes or have suggestions for me to make, TELL me! I’m not insulted – I make suggestions to your work all the time – you can make suggestions to mine, too!

Tomorrow, we are going to write an analysis essay explaining the difference between Carpe Diem and YOLO. We did that by doing stations. If you weren’t here, just do the stations on your own. I put all the material in your folders for you already.

Station 1

Pretty easy. We just worked on connotative and denotative definitions. For the first two boxes, copy what I wrote down about the word “bitch”.

Station 2

Highlight carpe diem quotes in the two songs. If you are stuck, look for places where the songs talk about time.

Station 3

Pretty simple. Follow the instructions.

Station 4

Okay. This one is a little weird. I had to change this one mid-class, so the instructions don’t match up with what we really did. Read the article and write a one sentence summary of it on the back of the article

Station 5

Read the article and choose one of the colored sheets to fill out over the article. If you were absent, I just chose a sheet for you and stuck it in your folder.

Station 6

I took what I considered to be the most important quotes from the literature that we have read in class during the carpe diem unit and put them on this sheet of paper. Color them!

The Big Picture: What is the difference between sucking the marrow out of life and choking on the bone? What is the difference between carpe diem and YOLO?