Your ideal pet is a ________.

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

Your ideal pet is a ____________.

• a clabul fish (<-- a="" fish="" globul="" handwriting:="" li="" maybe="">
• a bagumon
• The Monkey King, Wu Kong
• lynx
• beagle
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Shadowmere
• a fat cat
• excitable dog
• plant
• the bird-like reptiles from Avatar
• dragon
• fox
• AI
• pug(s)
• doge
• fat Scottish fold
• parrot
• cat
• dog
• Samoyed
• tutrle
• gooden doodle
• jerboa
• Time lord
• computer
• O
• corgies
• fat dog named Bubba

These ranged from the general to the very specific. I'm delighted that there were animals listed that I had to look up (see links above); I'm always looking for more knowledge to absorb! (If you can figure out what a "glorbul fish" is, let me know.)

This post's theme word is secretory (adjective), "relating to the release of a substance from a cell, gland, or an organ." My secret pet was soon discovered due to its particular secretory properties.

What is the title of your autobiography?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What is the title of your autobiography?

I've expurgated names below to protect the innocent. As a side effect, this protects the rest, too.

Some people went with an extremely literal title:

• A Book about ME
• "Don't Read This Book"
• I
• [student's own name]'s Autobiography by [student's own name]
• "Book"
• A Book about [student's own initials]
• The Life + Times
• [student's own name]: A Life
• "I Should Write an Autobiography -- Selected musings of [student's own name]"
• The Brief Wondrous Life of [student's own name]

I'm a bit worried about that last one --- does that student for some reason expect to live a particularly "brief" life? Yikes.

Others made obscure references (?) that I hope would be thematically highlighted and tied together in the text of the autobiography:

• "Thoughts About Everything"
• "The Little Engine that Could"
• My Life by Bill Clinton (<-- amp="" art="" cover="" have="" li="" might="" misleading="" publisher="" the="" trouble="" with="">
• "Sir"
• "Eh,"
• Content Free
• "No"
• Untitled
• I don't know
• 1337
• "ε"

Others chose something self-deprecating:

• "Fashionably Late and/or Asleep"
• A look at where it went wrong
• The Science of Laughing at Yourself

My favorite was easily "A look at where it went wrong", not only because it's a good hook --- I'm interested! I want to read that book! --- but also because either this student already thinks it's gone wrong, or this student anticipates that it will all go wrong sometime, for sure, and so that's a reliable autobiography title. Plus it's already funny. The title, at least, is going right!

This post's theme word is proem, "an introduction, preface, or preamble." My autobiography consists of a series of proems --- I just haven't gotten to the significant stuff yet!