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1/8/2015 – B

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I sent everyone a PowerPoint about Carpe Diem, Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, Memento Mori, and YOLO today. We translated the passage from Horace (where we get the expression carpe diem from). You can use this on the final exam if you still have it in ten weeks.

The last page of the PowerPoint is a foldable. You will read the four sentences, and then translate each sentence in your own thought. Add some clip art. I explained what it mean to strain the wine by showing a snippet from a video about pruno. I also serenaded the class to Doris Day’s song Que Sera Sera. Apparently, the entire school heard my song to you.

Make sure you have clip art! You may need to resize the font. Then cut thusly:

And then fold/glue.

Afterwards, we created an account on Bucket List. I won’t be able to access your account information, so remember your username and password, please!

Here is my account that you can look at. You can see that I have goals that I want to do, and things that I have done.

I want you to create a bucket list of things that YOU want to do before you die. Focus on meaningful things that you want to do, not just cool things. I know, it’s hard NOT to put those cool things on your list when you see them, but just think about things that you’d regret if you didn’t do them.

I’m looking for ten cool things and ten meaningful things for a total list of 20 items.

 

1/23/2015 – B

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I realized that even though I feel like we are behind, we are the *only* English IVB class in session right now, so we don’t have to keep up with any other class!

So, today, we reviewed To the Virgins to Make Much of Time – we ran out of time yesterday.

If you want, ask me why I find this poem so offensive.

We also talked about peaking in high school. If you peak in high school, then the rest of your life will be pretty depressing.

We went back to the To The Virgins Discussion board to answer three more questions. YOUR CHOICE. Make sure you that you have four completed so you can get full credit. If you do MORE than four questions, you are earn extra points!

We read The Top Five Regrets of the Dying and talked about any regrets that we may *already* have.

And lastly, I gave you time to work on you BucketList. 🙂 Just copy/paste the URL into the discussion board so that other people can see your BucketList. What’s the point of the internet is you can’t share/network?

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Today was a pretty each day – you even had some time to finish your Deep Questions from yesterday if you haven’t gotten those done yet.

We started talking about which we’d rather: knowing WHEN we would die or knowing HOW we’d die – without any ability to change future events.

Then, we talked about grades – I’ll just post the slides that I put up.Slide4 Slide5 Slide6 Slide7 Slide8 Slide9 Slide10 Slide11Next, we watched two videos by the guys who did The Buried Life on MTV. This one is the trailer for their tv show, and this is a really deep TED Talk that the four guys gave in Rome.

We talked about the difference between a MEANINGFUL item and a COOL item – choose items that are meaningful to you. Here’s MY Bucket List!

http://bucketlist.org/list/lochnessa/

Create your own account, create your OWN BucketList, and then copy/paste the web address to the Discussion board by creating a new thread.

I’ll be grading this on having a AT LEAST ten meaningful items. Try to think of things that YOU want to do before you start borrowing from other people.

4/1/14

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20140401_091849Today was pretty easy day workwise, but we did a lot of thinking (and goal setting!)

We started out the day by watching the trailer for The Bucket List. Then, on a Post-It note, and placed it by the door. You don’t need to put your name on it, but remember – you only have 48 hours – there are some things that you WON’T be able to do because you are limited by time.

20140401_091839Then, we watched the trailer for the Buried Life, and checked out the book they wrote called What Do You Want to Do Before You Die?. Some of the items are funny, but many were meaningful and powerful.

Then, we did the BucketList Prewriting – answer the questions as thoughtfully as possible, but don’t worry about writing in complete sentences. This is supposed to help you later when we write our BucketList.

After that, we looked at my Bucket List account on BucketList.org. We talked about how some of them were funny, some of them were weird, and some of them were meaningful to ME, but not to them.

We created a BucketList account of our own, and then created a list of at least ten significant items that we wanted to do before we died. Try to make them significant and individual. You can have a few typical ones in there, but I want you to really think about things that YOU want to do, not just things that sound cool that you’d never heard of before going to this webpage. If you get stuck, go check out your pre-writing – the two should align.

When you are done, drop the link off in the discussion board and check out the bucketlists of your peers.

4/11/2013

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Today is a pretty easy day – we are creating our own Bucketlist. Remember last week, we created an account at BucketList? Well, we are using that site to create our OWN BucketList.

I’m giving you an option – you can just create your BucketList for 15 points, OR, you can earn up to 30 points if you create a digital poster/presentation. You can use the media of your choice:

The key here is that is s media file – hence the nugget for Media Literacy today. Just make sure that you drop the link or file off in the drop box.

You *have* to have your Obituary completed in order to do the activity tomorrow. Make sure it’s in!

4/2/2013

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Whew! Most teachers would dread coming to school during a power outage. I’ll admit, it’s not the most conducive to teaching, but you all were amazing! Power or no power, you all did what I asked you to! And your computers were all charged! WOWZERS! It really helped the day go by easier.

Today, we started out by choosing three adjectives to describe ourselves (public speaking nugget right there!). If you missed this, I’m going to have to create a discussion board for you to do this as a make up assignment. It will be in the First Day folder.

Then, we hypothesized what we would do if the doctor told us we had 48 hours left to live. We wrote those ideas down on a post-it note and Riley put them on the whiteboard.

We then created an account at www.bucketlist.org. Use your home email address -if you use your gaggle account, it won’t get sent through.

Lastly, we answered the Bucket List Pre-Writing in the Carpe Diem folder in LMS.

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.

 

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.