Welcome to blogging English 10's
A great blog should really let "you" come through. It's just gotta show your voice, your character, your inner zen. If I'm not able to pick up on the actual "personality" of the blogger - I'm outta there. Pull your reader in.
A great blog is friendly, upbeat and informal. It doesn't follow the normal rules of diction that keep us chained so formally in the classroom. It has to make people want to follow you, or alternatively start up a blog of there own. If you're blogging about something you are reading, then your post should really give the reader a window into your thoughts and feelings of what you are eye-candying at the moment.
Blogs do need some paragraph structure. Just to help separate out the ideas. These paragraphs will be often only a few sentences - and it's important to keep your blog a readable length. Each blog post entry should take a maximum of two minutes to read.
I want to see synapses firing in a blog that I follow - I want to hear your reflective voice and be pulled into your insights and ideas. Can you hear Ms. C's voice as your reading this?? That's imperative - don't over sanitize your blogs - let me see that you are thinking.
BLOG POST #1 "What's in a great blog anyhow"
This blogging activity involves you taking your five key points from the previous day's review of a great blog and formulating a personal reflection on what a great blog should look like. Please include a minimum of two resources and at least one image.
BLOG POST #2 "A literary snippet"
Your next blog post will be specific to your recent Independent Reading activity. Choose one of the prompts below to articulate a reflective and concise blog post with a minimum of two added resources and one image.
Blog starter uppers -
1) Would you choose to read another book with these same characters? Why or why not?2) Which of these characters would you invite home to meet the fam?
3) How are you similar/different to one of the main characters?
4) If you had the ability to trade places with one of the main characters, which one would it be and why?
5) Which character don't you like? Who do they make you think of? Why don't you like them?
6) How do you feel about the story thus far? Would you recommend it to someone? Who would that be and why?
7) What would you do if you were the main character in the story? Would you have acted differently? Why or why not?
Now the possibilities really open up for you 10's. We are going to round out this series of writing activities with a focused topic exploration. Topic ideas are listed below, but if I've missed anything that you want to focus on please let me know. Each of these blogs have a few must haves. Each one must be approximately 300-400 words in length with applicable images (minimum of one) and external hyperlinked resources. They should also be open for comments as we will be reading each other's blogs and formulating feedback for the writer.
Lifestyle
Investing & economics
Gaming
Health & wellness
Travel
Literature or Film
Sports
Entertainment
Mythology
This chapter looks to be an absolute unit.
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