Bucket List

This summer has to be the best one yet, so I was bored and made a summer bucket list of things to do. I make one every year but I think this one is my best by far.. Some of this is hilarious!

Summer 2012 Bucket List:

1.      Burn all of our school stuff in a bonfire

2.      Buy A Crazy Daisy and play with it like old times

3.      Ride a motorcycle naked

4.      IPod dance party

5.      Get 5 cents worth of gas from every gas station

6.      Eat bananas from Wal-Mart then pay for them

7.      Six Flags

8.      Reverse pickpocket someone with 5 dollars

9.      Watch a movie we don’t like and throw popcorn the whole time

10. Fill a whole coloring book

11. Walk around a whole day without shoes

12. Swim in a public fountain

13. Go fishing in the Ellis  Golf Course pond

14. Go up the down escalator

15.  Get as many samples as we can at sam’s sample day for 3 hours

16. Get everyone to use a dumb phrase we make up

17. Sit next to a statue and be a statue, then scare somebody

18. Write complaint cards everywhere we go

19. Trash cans and fishing line

20. Hug a hobo

21. get a hole in one at ellis

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23. Dress up as ninjas for a day

24. Call random people and sing happy birthday

25. Ambush random people with nerf guns

26. Truth or dare in walmart

27. Giant game of hide and seek in a hotel

28. Kpo- krabby patty order

29. Pay for a meal all in change

30. Paint every toe and finger nail a different color

31. Wear santa hats for a day

32. Make a time capsule and bury it

33. Sing Christmas carols in a sketchy neighborhood for a day

34. Get lost on a random dirt road

35. learn to pogo stick

36. make a giant slip n slide

37. chalk peoples driveways

38. shopping cart races

39.  Go to a huge house party

40.  drink 5 rockstars in one night

41.  make smores

42.  Movie theatre hopping day

43. Order pizza on the phone and ask if you could see the menu

44. Spray paint a train

45. Laser tag

46. Kiss a stranger

47. Visit a cemetery at midnight

48. Go to a fourtune teller

49. Sticky note a whole bunch of cars

50. Paintball duel

51. 4 wheeling

52. Steal a lock of a strangers hair

53. Silly sting fight

54. Paint throwing with white tees on

55. Drive through a drive-thru backwards

56. Play spin the bottle

57. Climb a tree

58. Attempt the cinnamon challenge

59. Attempt the gallon challenge

60.  Lay out on a roof

61. Go to a drive in movie

62. Leave Iowa

63. Pierce something

64. Hand out lemons while wearing a shirt that says ‘Life’

65. Perkins at 3am

66. Set off illegal fireworks

67. see who can get the most stranger signatures on a white shirt

68. stargaze for hours

69. plank/tebow

70. Trahs cans and fishing line

71. bowl our first 300 games

72. disco party in someones garage

73. Chinese fire drill at every stoplight

74. Stop sign game

75. Honk if… signs on a busy street

76. Go canoeing or kayaking

77. Carwash

78. Use public transportation and avoid getting shot

79. Cahtroulette

80. Build a sandcastle

81. Superglue a quarter to the ground somewhere

82. Laser pointer in stores

83.  Fly kites

84. take a chicken to the beach

85. Win a contest on the radio

86.  Sleep in the car for a night

87. Carve our names into a tree

88. Jump into a pool fully clothed

89. Throw a watermelon on the floor in a store, run

90. Lemonade stand

91. Talk in a British accent for 24 hours

92. Tan on the roof of our car in a busy parking lot

93.  Dirty little secrets video

94. Ride a Ferris wheel and kiss someone at the top

95.  Ride a tandem bike

96.  Write a rap about us, put on YouTube

97. Watch a sunrise/sunset

98. Take one picture every day of summer

99. Dance in the rain

100.                     Put soap in the mall fountain

101.                     Learn to roll my tongue

102.                     Solve a Rubik’s cube without taking the stickers off

103.                     Ghosting strangers

104.                      Picnic at a park

105.                     Foam party

106.                     Camping

107.                     Learn 5 new hairstyles

108.                     Say ‘yes’ to everything for a whole day

109.                     Have a crazy pillow fight in a store

110.                     Flash mob

111.                     Take a zumba class

112.                     Hand out pennies to strangers

113.                     Give blood

114.                      Streaking on the golf course at night

115.                     Barn jumping

116.                     Get 10 old guys numbers

117.                     Bleach someone’s yard

118.                     Catch lightning bugs at night

119.                     Find the perfect song for summer

120.                     Memorize every word to ‘it wasn’t me’ with Jessie

121.                     Discover what life means to us

122.                     Help all of my friends move into college

123.                     Remember to add things as we go

124.                     Remember to cross things off when done

125.                     Be young, wild, and free

126.                     Make Yolo our summer motto

127.                     Have the most kick ass summer yet!!!!!

The Ap Lang Carnival

I recently heard that a bunch of people decide to drop AP classes over the summer, especially AP Lang. This is definitely not appropriate because there are many good reasons to take this class.

This is what the college board says about taking AP Lang:

The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and to become skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.
The goals of an AP English Language and Composition course are diverse because the college composition course is one of the most varied in the curriculum. The college course provides students with opportunities to write about a variety of subjects and to demonstrate an awareness of audience and purpose. But the overarching objective in most first-year writing courses is to enable students to write effectively and confidently in their college courses across the curriculum and in their professional and personal lives. Therefore, most composition courses emphasize the expository, analytical, and argumentative writing that forms the basis of academic and professional communication, as well as the personal and reflective writing that fosters the ability to write in any context. In addition, most composition courses teach students that the expository, analytical, and argumentative writing they must do in college is based on reading texts from various disciplines and periods as well as personal experience and observation. Composition courses, therefore, teach students to read primary and secondary sources carefully, to synthesize materials from these texts in their own compositions, and to cite sources using conventions recommended by professional organizations such as the Modern Language Association (MLA), the University of Chicago Press (The Chicago Manual of Style), and the American Psychological Association (APA).
As well as engaging in varied writing tasks, students become acquainted with a wide variety of prose styles from many disciplines and historical periods, and gain understanding of the connections between writing and interpretive skill in reading. Concurrently, to reflect the increasing importance of graphics and visual images in texts published in print and electronic media, students are asked to analyze how such images both relate to written texts and serve as alternative forms of texts themselves.
One way to help students synthesize and evaluate their sources is the researched argument paper. Researched argument papers remind students that they must sort through disparate interpretations to analyze, reflect upon, and write about a topic. When students are asked to bring the experience and opinions of others into their essays in this way, they enter into conversations with other writers and thinkers. The results of such conversations are essays that use citations for substance rather than show, for dialogue rather than diatribe.

Honestly, this makes it sound like an awful class to most students, so I reccommend that students about to take the class NOT read it.

The real reasons to take it are as follows:

1. You have an awesome teacher. Okay well I don't know about Ms. A, but Doctor Ayers is da bomb! First, he is a dcotor now so that automatically makes him cooler. Second, he is the funniest teacher I have right now. I don't go a day in his class without laughing.

2. You learn a lot. I now can crank out and essay in 45 minutes if I have to. All of the AP practice is important and helps you out alot.

3. We have an AP Lang Carnival, and it's awesome. So much better than those stupid lapotp carts. Ayers rents us a carnival to come in class about once a week and we basically have a huge party. It's awesome. So take Ap Lang. You won't regret it. Here are some pictures of the carnies we have met.





Now doesn't this look like a fun time? TAKE AP LANG!

And if you are enrolled in the course and are even thinking about dropping, I will find you!