Christmas Competition: 2nd Place. Congratulations to Samehrocks for this great (albeit macabre) list - he has won the second prize of a 1GB Apple iPod shuffle valued at $79! 10. Romas Kalanta Romas Kalanta (February 22, 1953 - May 14, 1972) is considered a national hero of Lithuania, and is the subject of several books.
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I thought that Facebook was on the way out with my students, but it showed a resurgence this last year. My students loved coming up with a Facebook profile for their chosen story characters. I had my students do a profile for both a protagonist and an antagonist and we displayed them side by side. It was really neat! This product asks the students to create an Facebook profile for a book character. I have also included teacher notes. Included in the profile: Timeline Cover Avatar About me Likes and dislikes Friends list Status updates Wall comments Picture update Common Core this product covers: -CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. -CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. Other Character Activities for ANY novel: 20+ Character activities for ANY novel Novel Character eBay Listing Novel Character Obituary Novel Character Suitcase Packing Novel Character Postcard Novel Character Netflix Queue Novel Character Facebook Activity Novel Character Refrigerator Novel Character Shopping List Novel Character Cell Phone Twitter Activity Novel Character Cell Phone Texting Activity Novel Character Cell Phone Apps Activity Novel Character Reading List Activity Novel Character Instagram Activity Novel Character Trash Activity Novel Character Google Search Pinterest as a book character Computer Lab Activity Story Character Cell Phone Hack Story Character Cell Phone Hack
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When I came up with the concept for this post, I started up a list of fears, went to see if I could find more, and discovered that someone has done years more work than me, and there are many more fears than I initially imagined. I mean, I know some of them. Trypophobia, for example, the fear of clusters, which, by the way, if you HAVE it, don't Google it. "Hey, guys, what kind of pictures should show up in Google Images for people who have a fear of clusters?' "How about a bunch of clusters?" "Brilliant!" Anyway, if you're looking for a fear for your character, take a look at The Phobia List, which is exactly as described on the tin. While it actually doesn't have trypophobia on it for some reason, it does have things like: - Alliumphobia - Fear of garlic. - Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks. - Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news. - Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - Fear of long words. Yes, the person who named it is an asshole. - Omphalophobia - Fear of belly buttons. - Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law. - Zemmiphobia - Fear of the great mole rat But those are, at their core, "common" fears, fears that have been written about and named in reference books. It doesn't quite look at irrational fears. Those can get very specific. For example, aichmophobia is the fear of needles or pointed objects, including knives. For a time, on top of a fear of needles, I was outright terrified of being accidentally impaled by someone using a knife in the kitchen. Absolutely irrational, but I spent the better part of a decade excusing myself whenever someone else was cutting anything because I could just SEE the knife slipping out of their hand and flying at my skull like a ninja star. So, since general fears have been done well beyond my means, let's have some fun with irrational ones, or ones that aren't on the list. Irrational Fears Fear of a children's TV show Fear of a specific song Fear of accidental impalement Fear of being late or early Fear of being murdered in a hotel room Fear of being stalked by internet trolls Fear of celebrities Fear of chihuahuas (or any other small dog breed) Fear of closed cupboards Fear of clowns in unlikely places Fear of conspiracy theories Fear of cracked doors Fear of crossing train tracks or standing on platforms Fear of desserts Fear of emergency or construction vehicles Fear of escaped zoo animals Fear of falling in public Fear of finding unnatural things in food Fear of flickering lightbulbs Fear of getting kicked in the face Fear of getting locked out Fear of getting lost in a big city Fear of hotel rooms or any room that's not their own Fear of knitting needles Fear of knowing other peoples' secrets Fear of manual labor Fear of mythical creatures Fear of ocean debris (seashells, seaweed or flotsam) Fear of open windows Fear of other people being paranoid Fear of oversized bags (purses, trash, etc) Fear of rain puddles Fear of rainbows Fear of reflected light spots Fear of shaved or hairless cats Fear of the internet Fear of the naked mole rat Fear of uneven terrian Fear of unpaved roads Fear that everyone is talking about you behind your back Thanks to my dear friend Kat for coming up with several of the ideas on this list. Check her out on Twitter: @_Almost_ So, dear readers, tell me, what are YOU afraid of?
Summer is here, which means it’s officially wedding season—which means it’s also honeymoon season. Lining up a dream postnuptial vacation can be just as high-stakes as planning the big day itself. (Remember Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s widely publicized indecision: Was it Africa or Canada?) It can be especially complicated, it turns out, if you are a billionaire. Nobody knows that better than the planning team at Ovation Vacations, a leisure travel consultancy for ultrahigh-net-worth
