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1/21/2015 – B

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So we started out today talking about GRADES! Namely, that in order to get “A” on an assignment, I need to see some independent thought in your assignment or some kind of risk. I compare grades to coffee.

Then, the lesson today started out with a choice – which would you rather: knowing WHEN we would die or knowing HOW we’d die – without any ability to change future events.

Then, we answered the Deep Questions. I”ll be looking at your DEEP thoughts about this rather than complete sentences, so focus on that. This should take some time to complete, so if you get done in three minutes, you probably didn’t do it correctly.

Then, we watched the trailer for The Bucket List and I cried.

Today, we will be writing our OWN bucket lists, and I mentioned the most common item on my students’ lists is skydiving. So then I impressed everyone with this video – make sure you check out the super cool helmet (?) that I’m wearing and how goofy I look when I am actually jumping out of the plane.

We opened an account for BucketList and started adding events today. We are finishing tomorrow.

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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.

8/28/13 – B

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One good thing about this class is that we are the ONLY IVB class in Vistas, so that means we aren’t going to be trying to keep pace with another class. We can work at our OWN pace.

Today, we watched the trailer for The BucketList – you seemed really interested in this movie. I may have to go ahead and show this when we get to a stopping point.

Then, we talked about what we’d do if we only had 48 hours left to live – what would you regret if you found out the doctor was WRONG!?!

We watched and talked about the Buried Life on MTV and then created our OWN bucket list on www.bucketlist.org. Remember that this is not an account where I can access/change your username/password, so you’ll have to keep track of this. I’ll need ten significant items by next Friday. Make sure you follow me so that I can see your list. 🙂

WE looked at Death and the Devil Surprising Two Maidens today and answered the discussion questions in BB. You guys had some great thoughts and comments. Death and the Devil Surprising Two WomenYou all seemed to really understand the relevance of this topic and seemed eager to approach it.

Lastly, I gave you time to finish your Bucket List Prewriting. If you get stuck thinking of things for your Bucket List, go back to these questions and see if you can find items that can help you accomplish the goals in this pre-writing. You can do it either as a Word doc or just as a message.