This is probably the best part of my senior year! If you seniors have not recieved this take a look at it. This is a great way to not just live life, but express my creativity! Make sure all you seniors do this! This is amazing! Now you have to remeber tho. Another part of spontaneous acts, are the consequences there of! Heed my warning there ARE pros and cons to all your actions!
CARPE DIEM!! SEIZE THE DAY!! OR
“How to Get More Joy Out of Life”
Instructions: Over the next three weeks you will be indulging in a number of activities directly designed to help you make the most of your youth and time. As seniors, you risk growing rather stuffy and boring with your advancing maturity, and just to make sure that you stave off the inevitable for a few weeks longer, I’m requiring that you do the following assignments.
Complete at least 11 (that’s ELEVEN) Carpe Diem activities, choosing the prescribed number from each category.
Document each activity. If it is done at school, I should see it. If you can take a picture, do it.
Each activity will also need to be accompanied by a 100-word description of the event, and how the experience affected you. If you have no evidence of the experience (i.e. no ticket stub, picture, Xerox copy of a letter), then you will need to write a 200-250-word response describing your activity.
All documentation and writing will need to be kept in a Carpe Diem Journal*, which will be turned in for a total grade at the end of the three weeks. Your journal can be hand-made or purchased, but all information must be secured and self-contained.
The points you earn will be dependent upon the point values of the activities you select. Your goal is for your points to add up to 100 so choose some things from the bottom three categories. I will award up to 25 points extra credit for completing more than the minimum 11 activities required. Extra credit should be included with your journal also.*There are 3 options for your journal: An actual journal as described above, a Power Point presentation, or a poster. A Power Point presentation must have all journal writing included. It must have a picture for each activity, and at least 12 slides. A poster must be completely decorated and covered. Please attach writings to your poster. Any illegal activity portrayed on your poster may result in a severe grade reduction! This is due Friday, May 8. Your activities should be highlighted and all points counted.
NOW, GO BOLDLY FORTH TO CELEBRATE THE ESSENCE OF LIFE, OF LIVING, OF BEING!! LIVE NOW, BEFORE THE “REAL WORLD” GETS A HOLD OF YOU!!
List A: Choose 4 (10 points each)
Make a special dinner for your beloved or friends, and eat it by candlelight.
Paint a picture to music (watercolors are fine).
Write a poem with a Carpe Diem theme (at least 14 substantial lines).
Write a long letter to someone you’ve needed to write to for a long time (Xerox).
Make an old-fashioned picnic lunch and eat it outdoors – anywhere.
Go to the beach by yourself and spend an hour thinking about life and then write down your reflections.
Spend an hour reading poetry to your beloved.
Re-read an old book you’ve loved, and write about the experience and the new discoveries you made.
Rent a rated “G” movie (The Emperor’s New Groove, Mulan, and The Road to Eldorado are my personal favorites-very amusing) and watch it with friends.
Rent an old “classic” movie (My Fair Lady, Camelot, Singin’ in the Rain, and Brigadoon-my favorites) and watch it.
Listen to an hour’s worth of music that you’ve never intently listened to before.
Start a journal and write in it at least every other day (no other entry needed for this activity).
Start a “quote” journal and write down at least 15 inspiring thoughts.
Read Winnie the Pooh, Anne of Green Gables, or The Little Prince for the first time.
Go to a classical or jazz music concert, a musical, or a play.
Go on a date where only talking and (a little!) kissing are allowed, and see if there’s any relationship left.
Get up one morning early enough to see the sunrise-record in a “Showing” paragraph or poem.
Go to the skating rink one evening and have a ball.
Paint a T-shirt and wear your “creation” to school.
Make a collage of things that make you happy.
Believe in yourself for one day and write about the experience.
Take a roll of pictures of things that make you happy (not just your friends, please) and develop them. Go play with a child (or like a child) for an hour or two and write about the experience.
____ Items selected X 10 Points = ____ / 40 (Include extra credit**)
List B: Choose 4 (7 points each)
Make a list of your 10 favorite words and tell why you like them.
Press flowers.
Give up something for two weeks.
Do something nice for someone you usually don’t think about.
Send and anonymous love note to someone (Xerox).
Play in the mud or the rain.
Buy crayons and a coloring book and color at least 2 pictures (no going outside the lines!).
Eat at an ethnic restaurant whose country’s food you’ve never tried before (menu).
Wear a garland of flowers to school for a whole day.
Memorize a poem and recite it to the class.
Wear something to school that you wouldn’t ordinarily wear because of fear of other’s opinions (Who really cares, anyway? Be an individual for once!).
Check out 4 Dr. Seuss books and re-read or read for the first time.
Plant flowers—anywhere!
Light candles, put on some jazz or classical music, and take a bubble bath.
Read poetry before going to bed.
Take a long walk and actually look at the scenery. Notice all the different colors of vegetation.
Go to the beach at night and fly a kite or take a run down the shore until you can’t run anymore.
Get some friends and go to a drive-in movie (oh, you have to watch the movie!).
Get some friends and spend the evening playing some games like Monopoly, Scrabble, Pictionary, or Scattegories.____ Items selected X 7 Points = ____ / 28 (Include extra credit**)
List C: Choose 3 (5 points each)
Buy yourself some flowers and have them delivered to the school so everyone can see them.
Spontaneously hug someone you ordinarily wouldn’t.
Dance in the parking lot.
Wear your hair in a totally new way all day.
Watch an hour’s worth of I Love Lucy, I Dream of Jeannie, or Bewitched.
Get into a food fight.
Write a note of appreciation to someone (Xerox).
Play Red Rover, Hide and Go Seek, Freeze Tag, or some other game you liked when you were a kid.
Have a Silly String Fight.
Play with Play Doh—creations must be exhibited!
Analyze your dreams for a night.
Bake something other than cookies from scratch (sample needed).
Go to a party and drink only Kool-Aid for an entire evening—and get high on life for a change.
____ Items selected X 5 Points = ____ / 15 (Include extra credit*)
Impulsive, Spontaneous Acts:
Take either your mother or father out to dinner at short notice--McDonald’s is fine, but you have to pay (5 pts).
Skip down the middle of the Mall – All the way down. Do it with a friend, it’ll be easier (5 pts).
Burst into song in the middle of the quad; make sure enough people hear you that you look somewhat weird--which is, of course, the fun of it (5 pts).
Give money to someone in need when they ask you for it (5 pts). Get into a conversation with him/her about his/her life, in addition to giving money (5 pts).
Dye your hair a different color for one day (5 pts).
Imaginative, Creative Acts:
Write poetry in the bathtub (7 pts).
Write a piece of music and play it for the class (10 pts).
Develop a new art form (5-10 pts depending on the art form).
Stay up until 2:00 a.m. writing and thinking about life (7 pts).
Write a hymn to nature (7-10 pts depending on the hymn).
Conceive an invention and commit it to paper (10 pts).
Write a short story (10 pts).
Paint a mural on your bedroom wall (10 pts – and find a place to live if you get kicked out!).
Passionate Acts:
Sponsor a child through an organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged children (10 pts).
Adopt a “cause” and tell 5 people that they need to be concerned about it also (5-10 pts depending on the “cause”).
Dance in the sun or rain when no one is looking and write about the experience (5 pts).
Get good and depressed about the tragedy of life for at least 15 minutes, and then decide to do something about the tragedy (5-10 pts depending on what you decide to do).
Write a love poem to someone and send it anonymously (5 pts).
Get in a passionate argument with someone over a significant social or political issue (5 pts).
Decide to become a missionary (5 pts).
Decide to join the Peace Corps (5 pts).
Give flowers to a friend “just because” (5 pts).
Tell a teacher “thank you” in a special way (3-5 pts depending on the way).
Start a family recycling center (7 pts).
Go to counseling (10 pts).
Watch a foreign film (10 pts).
Hug your parent(s) and tell them how much you love them (5 pts).
____ Items selected for ____ Points (Include extra credit**)
____ Activity Points (Out of 100) +
____ Decorative Points (Out of 25) +
____ Presentation Points (Out of 25) =
____ / 150 Points total
The world is an echo;
It all comes back:
The good, the bad, the true.
So give the world
The best you have
And the best will come back to you!
(Author Unknown)
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