Q1: Week 4 - Posts for 9/11

For this week, you have two posts as usual.  Please review your comments on previous weeks and use them to raise your game.  A few notes of things I'm seeing frequently that you can avoid:

• commonly confused words (exiting/exciting, lose/loose, there/their/they're)
• missing apostrophes for possessive nouns or added apostrophes for plural nouns
• lack of formatting for book titles (italics)
• more than 25% of the post spent summarizing the book
• posts that don't reflect the prompt clearly

I am also working on a collection of great posts from these first few weeks that I'll be putting up in the next couple of days - stay tuned.

Your posts this week:

1. Reading Response: you may respond to an outside reading book, or you can respond to one of the narratives we have been reading in class.  As usual, limit your writing about what is going on in your book or in the narrative to a couple of sentences and keep the focus on your ideas.  

2. Dear ____-year-old: Watch the video "How to Age Gracefully" (from CBC Radio WireTap).  Write a letter of advice to someone at an age that you have passed, based on your experiences.  Make it interesting - try to avoid things they might hear frequently!  (Yes, it should be longer than the advice in the video - please make it the standard 2-paragraph length by choosing one or two pieces of advice and explaining them).