Class Bucket Lists (Any Grade)

Hello my curious teachers!

This morning I was stumbling upon different ESL websites and I found the facebook page of The English Student and I saw that they hade posted a graphic of a Bucket List.
This made me realize that I didn't have my own Bucket List and so I happily put everything aside to start thinking what my own Bucket List should look like.
After only coming up with 6 things I really want to do before I die, my future teacher instincts kicked in and I started brain-storming how can I incorporate a "Bucket List" into a classroom lesson. I came up with a "Students Grade Bucket List" which basicly sums down to things that the student wants to acomplish before the school year ends and they move on to the next grade.

This activity can be done with all grade levels, however it would be most meaningful with high school students which have an idea (more or less) of what they want, don't want, and why.
Also, this activity would be ideal to do within the first or second week of school after your students feel more comfortable around you to share their dreams and inspirations.

As a future teacher I would love to know what my students want from the school year so that I can try my best to help them achieve everything from that list.
Keeping in mind all the skills that need to be covered I thought of ways to add in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing into the mix.


Listening: I'm still thinking of a listening activity.


Speaking: For speaking what I had in mind, so that you can also use technology, is to record your students with your digital camera while they read out loud their list (or if they can remember it, even better).
My plan is to individually record them saying their bucket list and then show them once the school year is over. Ideally it would be above and beyond to do this every year for the student and then at graduation give them a CD of the videos to see if they were able to accomplish a few things off their Bucket List.
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Reading:I'm still thinking of a reading activity.


Writing: To incorporate writing it would be perfect to have your students write out what their bucket list is going to contain. Since a bucket list is just a list (duh) of sentences you can ask your students to expand more on each item to practice more writing.
ex. I would like to sky dive.
I would like to sky dive with friends or I would like to sky dive for my 18th birthday off a super cool plane wearing a shirt that says #YOLO.


Enjoy your Bucket List!

North American holidays (10th Grade)

Why Hello! 

Here is a great Prezi Presentation I created for North American Holidays. You can use it when it comes times to teach this topic in high school.

All you have to do is click HERE

I hope you enjoy the presentation! And remember to give me your love if you used the presentation!

Using Facebook to learn about Antonyms and Synonyms (10th Grade)

This is an activity that can be used for your high school students that already have a Facebook account (what high schooler doesn´t have Facebook) to learn about antonyms and synonyms.

This activity can be done for students to do as homework and bring the next day or in class if you're in a computer lab.

The instructions are simple:

1. Have students log on to Facebook and go to their "wall."
2. Have them pick 10 facebook status.
4. Now, have them swap the some words. Swap 5 statuses with antonyms and 5 statuses with synonyms. 
5. Share with the class the funny Facebook statuses now that you have swap some of the words for their antonyms and others for synonyms.

Make sure that the statuses the students pick are appropriate so that they can share them with the class.

Here is an example I got from my very own Facebook "wall."



I can´t actually breath once again now that I started my paper...now it will be difficult
 going for the rest of the semester til I graduate.


Enjoy all the silly statuses with your students!