Choose any or all the challenges below!

Challenge 1

1. Make a sentence using words from above.
2. Click on the words above or this link so that they make sense!
3. See, isn’t that better? (made with Wordle)
4. Guess at a feeling that is behind this strange poem.
   

Challenge 2

Watch the video below.

1. What sense can you make of the words or feeling now?
2. Why would people write a “nonsense poem?”
3. Hint: Can the words you choose really explain emotions you may be feeling?  Try it.  Choose an emotion and write two sentences:

• a serious sentence describing the emotion.
• a “nonsenstence” (nonsense sentence) that gives a feeling without clearly saying words we all know.
  

Challenge 3

New Wild Things

1. Listen and watch the Story
2. What emotions do you think Maurice Sendak is bringing up in Where the Wild Things Are?
3. Write a sentence about what Max is feeling.
4. Why do you think Max visits Monsters?  Why not angels? clowns? giraffes?

Do you want to Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Additional Links

• About Maurice Sendak
• Wikipedia on Where the Wild things Are
• Sendak’s advice to children
• Sendak’s advice to parents
• Movie homepage

Challenge 4

1. Flip through the book The Boy and the Monster
2. If you wrote a book with Monsters in it, what kind would they be?
3. What emotions would you include in your story?
4. Do you want to take a turn publishing your own book with Tikatok?

In 1994, the Digital Corporation produced this sexy preview of what the Web had to offer the world. They titled it “VisionShift.” Less than fifteen years later, look how this “Web” has evolved into a phone platform with personalized, location-based offerings that far exceed our wildest dreams in 1994.

Many have seen Pattie Maes’ TEDTalks on the Sixth Sense technology that is currently feasible for less than a topflight phone…

The question is not, “Will this really become available?”  Nor even “When?” The question for us to address is,

“Honestly, what might Sixth Sense become in fifteen years time that we can’t even imagine right now?”

Now let’s add a kicker:

“What are schools doing so that students’ can take advantage of such personal learning potential?”

“Parts” Cluster

1. Use clustering software like Bubble.us or Thinkature
2. What’s the main idea or feeling? Put it in the center.
3. Work as a class to brainstorm as much as you can about the movie.
4. Group or connect any of the items into larger sets.

Pro – Con – Neutral

1. Why would people be in favor of this?
2. Why would people be against it?
3. What would be a neutral position?

See – think – wonder