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        Aimee had this fantastic idea of creating a couple of madlibs from passages from The Truth About Stories by Thomas king (along with other great ideas).  This idea of creating madlibs struck me because in class we have been talking about how there is always an alternative story to every story.  This, in my opinion was the perfect embodiment of this notion!  Once I expressed my excitement for this project we decided that this would be good for both of us to present.  Aimee decided that she wanted to use the opening whit which King began each of his chapters while I accidentally slept through the fist half hour that we were supposed to have met. Once again: sorry, Aimee L. When my alarm finally went off and we got a chance to talk about potential madlib passages I thought that if she wanted to do the opening that he used why not use the ending passage that he closed all of his chapters with?  In doing so each madlib could represent the beginning and the end of the course.  The madlibs we created can be seen in the post below by Aimee.

        The night before our presentation we printed out the passages, omitted certain words and replaced them with blanks.  After we printed out the passages we cut out the words and the blanks.  We glued the words on two large poster boards and left spaces for where the blanks would be taped.  We then handed out the blanks and asked people to fill in the blank with the type of word indicated below the blank with the peers surrounding them (we did not have enough blanks for everyone to have their own word to fill in). Aimee read the story that we had created together, and I read that the actual passage sounded like. Unfortunately, when it came time to present we were beginning to run out of time, so we were only able to present my madlib seeing as it was the shorter of the two. But, in the end we all got a good laugh from the story that we had created together.  I think that it was a very fun, successful presentation even with the time-crunch.