What Does the Future Hold?
Imagining our lives through obituaries and epitaphs
Objectives
 To consider where and who you are now
 To look at the community you’re growing up in
 To consider what your family has instilled in you
 To be clarify what you believe about yourself
 To contemplate goals for your possible future
o·bit·u·ar·y (ōˈbiCHo͞oˌerē) noun: obituary; plural noun: obituaries: a notice of
a death, esp. in a newspaper, typically including a brief biography of the deceased
person.
Micro-Obituary Requirements
 Your micro-obituary will be 100 – 150 words
 What were the facts of your imagined life? Create something full of life, and
interest.
 What was unique about your life? Your passions? Your accomplishments?
What was important to you? How did you make the world around you
better?
 This will be graded for Idea Development, Word Choice, and Sentence
Fluency
ep·i·taph (ˈepiˌtaf) noun: epitaph; plural noun: epitaphs: a phrase or statement
written in memory of a person who has died, esp. as an inscription on a
tombstone.
Epitaph Requirements
 Your Epitaph will be 5 – 20 words
 In it you will attempt to encapsulate what was most important not only in
your micro-obituary, but your life.
 You will be graded for Idea Development, Word Choice, and Sentence
Fluency
Presentations
 You will need two typed copies of your work: Name and mod #, microobituary, and finally your epitaph.
 Each student will present their work to the class, and receive feedback.
 Following presentations students will revise their work, and post it to the
classroom blog at www.AndreeInstitute.com