After much sleep and pain killers, I’m up and moving again. We’ll see how long this lasts once we start playing DnD tonight, but for now while I’m functional again, I wanted to play a game. This started with my 200-level French classes. I wanted a way to review all the major grammar points for the five chapters we covered this semester without having to do a long week of boring lectures. So I made up worksheets where they wrote an example sentence for each grammar point listed. Then I had them remove one word from each, creating a list of the parts of speech they were pulling out as they did so like “past participle” and “adjective” and the like. Then I had them rewrite their sentences leaving blanks where the words they chose had been. Friday, we traded them. They gave each other the list of parts of speech to fill out then they filled out the stories themselves. Everyone enjoyed creating and filling out the Mad Libs, and they turned out to be very interesting, to say the least. I put them up on my door for everyone to see. Fun was had by all!

Last night before passing out, I talked to Ian about creating one for the webpage. We discussed what major work of literature to pull from because I figured it’d be more hilarious to use the opening paragraph of a famous work like Moby Dick or War and Peace. So we picked a book, I pulled words out of it left and right and came up with what words are needed to fill it back in. So here’s the game: I need a certain amount of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and so on, and if you each post a few of each, we’ll have plenty to fill in the Mad Lib which I will then post next week once I’ve got enough words. Below is a list of the words needed and how many of each, and feel free to be as creative as you’d like. It’ll be interesting, I’m sure.

1. Person’s name: 6
2. Adjective: 12
3. Adverb: 2
4. Verb: 21
5. Number: 4
6. Preposition: 7
7. Animal: 6
8. Food: 4
9. Plant: 4
10. Unit of time: 2
11. Noun: 37

I might have to go back and recount how many of each I need later (I padded a couple a little just to be sure I didn’t miss any), but push come to shove, we might end up with more than needed anyway. As for how I’ll be putting them in there, I’ll probably just toss them in at random. Have fun!