EPITHET BINGO!

8/28/09 11:20 AM

Epithet Bingo for Educators

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Do you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? Here is a way to change all of that! Play Epithet
Bingo. It's fun, it's educational and what's more, it's FREE. Just download, copy and distribute this file to
any and all interested colleagues.

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How to Play: Check off each block when you hear selected buzz words during a meeting, seminar or phone
call. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically or diagonally, stand up and shout, "(selected
epithet)!"

Buzz-Word Selections: the playing board illustrated below contains a variety of buzz-words commonly
found in Eastern U.S. urban educational establishments. You should feel free to replace them with any you
find particularly overused or mishandled in your particular situation.

Selecting an Epithet: One has, of course, the vast wealth of English vulgarity at one's disposal. But tact and
consideration for the squeamishness of others might bring one to consider words less likely to provoke
social opprobrium. Latinate words, in particular, sound learned, even, possibly, laudatory. Players might
compete with one another in choosing epithets rare and erudite, exploring, for example, Greek roots of
particular descriptive appropriateness for the presentation at hand. One interesting variation is to use the
offending buzzword as the epithet: speakers find this confusing and tend to interpret it as approbation,
thereby intensifying the game.

Sample Game Board:

International Outcomes Raising Parental

Values
Competitiveness Focussed Expectations Involvement
Preparing
for the High
Accountability Academics Diversity
World of Standards
Work
Small
Educational Back-to-
Post-Modern Modular Learning
Technology Basics
Communities
Knowledge- Zero
Excellence Empowerment Participatory
Based Tolerance
Strategic Character Meeting
Caring Multiculturalism
Planning Education Needs

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Testimonials from Satisfied Players

"I had only been in the faculty development seminar for five minutes when I won my first game of Epithet
Bingo." -- Jack W., Boston

"Epithet Bingo has helped my attention span at school board meetings improve dramatically." -- David D.,
Florida

"A small group of district delegates astonished the Secretary of Education when we played Epithet Bingo
during his annual presentation to the state legislature." --Cynthia W., Harrisburg

"The atmosphere was tense in the last faculty meeting as fourteen of us waited for the fifth box." -- Ben G.,
Denver

"The superintendent was stunned as eight of us screamed, "Coprophagy!" for the third time in two hours." --
Kathleen L, Atlanta

"I never listened very hard to what my principal said at meetings before, but now I hang on every word,
playing Epithet Bingo." William S., Santa Clara.

Other Versions of Epithet Bingo:

Look for Epithet Bingo in any of its following varieties:

Epithet Bingo for the Corporate Boardroom

Epithet Bingo for Political Observers

Encounter-Group Epithet Bingo

Epithet Bingo for Revival Meetings

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