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!