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To start the class we went over the vocabulary, chapter 26.

For our life lesson we watched a 2 minute Ted Talk on a 30 day challenge. A 30 day challenge in which you eliminate the extraneous parts of your life such as facebook, coffee, etc. The 30 day challenge also means that you try something new such as take one picture a day for 30 days or write a novel. Mr. Neal concluding this discussion with a challenge to us to pursue a 30 day challenge and e-mail him about what it is.

The next activity we did was a Taboo exercise. To start the activity we went around the room and everyone shared ways to remember the weekly vocabulary. Some of these ways were making flash cards, using the words in everyday language, using perverted ways to remember it. Next, we wrote the vocabulary word on the top of the card, and underneath it listed 5 words that were related to the word. This made are brain think in ways that it would not have done before when we just look at the word and cover the definition.

One half of the room wrote a taboo card for 5 words from this weeks vocabulary, the other half did the last 5 words. After that we wrote 3 taboo cards for words that we personally did not feel comfortable with.

With these cards we got into groups of two and competed against another group of two. The game was to say the word on top of the card without saying the 5 words that were listed underneath it. Jonathan and Nima destroyed Joe and Kayla.