Mrs. Phippen was sick. Students read this article: Time.com about how doodling is a brain exercise. They were asked to write about a time when that worked for them, or a time when it WOULD have worked for them.
Then, they had two different kinds of brain activities. One was a group of words that connected to each other, but in only one way. Another was a word search. Both activities require word knowledge (what the word means) and global/spacial relationships.
If the students finished the assignment in class, they turned it in. If they did not, it was homework.
We listened to the song "Nothing Else Matters."
