We started today talking about Death and the Devil Surprising Two Maidens. If you weren’t here today, there is a drop box assignment for this in the Carpe Diem folder in Obituary.

We talked about how death generally isn’t considered evil – that it’s a natural part of life and doesn’t always have to be a negative thing.

Then, we read the poem The Dash by Linda Ellis and discussed what eulogies and obituaries are. We are going to eventually be writing our OWN obituaries later this week, so we are going to prepare for that by working on a timeline of our future milestones in life. So, contrary to what Horace told us to do, we are going to look at our long term goals today. In doing so, we can identify the short term goals we need in order to reach the BIG goals. Capiche?

There is a link in BB that will take you here:

So, you’ll start out here. All you need to do here is add your name and the title Future Timeline. and then hit start.

Here, you’ll add your first item. Click on the timeline to see this screen. All you need focus on are the label and the picture. Don’t worry about adding the short or the long description – this is just a pre-writing activity for ideas. You’ll do the writing about it during the Obituary, which we are starting today!

When you are done, it should look something like this, except yours will be real items.

If you have to quit BEFORE you are done, you’ll hit SAVE at the top and save it as a RWT file. This is a rough draft. You can’t turn this in.

When you are done, you’ll hit finish and see this screen. Then, you’ll hit SAVE FINAL.

Save this as a PDF and turn this bad boy in.

Then, we ended the day with talking about avocado moments with a buddy. If you weren’t here, send me an e-mail with the answers to these questions.