Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Great Posts! And a few reminders
Here are some highlights of my weekly blog reading, across classes. Kudos to the authors. For those of you in need of inspiration, go check out some of these:
A few reminders:
- Last semester, we talked about how reading responses should be mainly focused on your thoughts and ideas, not on the plot of the book. You may need to give a couple of sentences summary, but no more than 25% of your response should be devoted to that. Responses that do not go beyond plot summary will only receive partial credit. One thing you could do instead of summarizing your book at length is to give a link to a description of the book, so interested readers could easily access it.
- Add your reading details (title, author, date, amount of time, number of pages) to the end of your reading response post.
- One comment per blog post. If a post has been commented on already (by someone other than me), find another one to comment on. If you still want to comment on a post that already has one because you just have something to say about it, go ahead, but only the first comment on each post will receive credit.
- Please comment only on blogs from your section, again, if you want to receive credit. (If you just have something to say and don't care about getting credit for comments, go ahead and comment).
- Finally, book titles are italicized. Short stories, poems, and articles go in quotation marks. At this point in the year, I should not be seeing book titles formatted with quotation marks.
- Janelle on Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Jared on The Death Cure
- Paul on Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Austin, "The Story Behind the Shirt"
- Caroline H., "Literary Analysis Essay"
- Haley, "One Thing"
A few reminders:
- Last semester, we talked about how reading responses should be mainly focused on your thoughts and ideas, not on the plot of the book. You may need to give a couple of sentences summary, but no more than 25% of your response should be devoted to that. Responses that do not go beyond plot summary will only receive partial credit. One thing you could do instead of summarizing your book at length is to give a link to a description of the book, so interested readers could easily access it.
- Add your reading details (title, author, date, amount of time, number of pages) to the end of your reading response post.
- One comment per blog post. If a post has been commented on already (by someone other than me), find another one to comment on. If you still want to comment on a post that already has one because you just have something to say about it, go ahead, but only the first comment on each post will receive credit.
- Please comment only on blogs from your section, again, if you want to receive credit. (If you just have something to say and don't care about getting credit for comments, go ahead and comment).
- Finally, book titles are italicized. Short stories, poems, and articles go in quotation marks. At this point in the year, I should not be seeing book titles formatted with quotation marks.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Getting Ready to Blog
The blog URLs are starting to come in, and I'm adding them to my links list. Please make sure you check this page each week for any special topics or blog requests. To get some ideas, you may want to visit Mrs. Duke's students' blogs (see the 2011 student blogroll list on the right).
Remember to set your blog to accept comments without moderation, and to add a link to my page in your links section. You can also add any other links you want.
First entry due Monday, 2/9 - it is a free post, but you are encouraged to write something relevant to the new semester. Two paragraphs minimum.
Remember to set your blog to accept comments without moderation, and to add a link to my page in your links section. You can also add any other links you want.
First entry due Monday, 2/9 - it is a free post, but you are encouraged to write something relevant to the new semester. Two paragraphs minimum.
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