At the end of the trimester, Mr. Inouye's class had an extra day to synthesize his class's discussions of The Epic of Gilgamesh and the life (and death) lessons that Gilgamesh gained from his journey to the end of the earth to find Utnapishtim, the only mortal granted eternal life by the gods (his story of the Flood predates the biblical story of Noah by hundreds and hundreds of years yet is identical on many counts).  Part of the lesson he learns--from Shiduri, a tavern keeper, and Utnapishtim, and the snake that eats what he believes to be the key to eternal life--is that (1) he should be thankful for what he does have because (2) death is inevitable, even for kings.  So, Mr. Inouye chose six famous poems about life and death, unwrote them into just fifteen individual words, then students used those words to express their own imaginative poems about life and death.  The result was the digital flipbook above.  Enjoy!  And Happy Thanksgiving!