Blogging for 2/3

It's been a wild week!  For your blogging this week, please document the time you spent reading and working on your paper, including our virtual school days.  Document in detail - what day did each period of work take place and what, precisely, did you do?

Blocks 1 and 2 should have a total of at least 4 hours (240 minutes)

Blocks 3 and 4 should have a total of at least 4:45 hours (285 minutes)

Post 1: Sneaux Week Free post!

Post 2: Your research paper draft: what do you feel confident about in this draft?  What are you concerned or unsure about?  What was easy and what was hard?  What would you like help changing?  What should I focus my feedback on when I read? (Write a two-paragraph post that responds to these questions but that works independently as a piece of writing, not just a list of answers).

Blogging for 1/27 - Happy Snow Day!

Happy Snow Day!  Enjoy your day.  Here's your weekend mission:

Work on your research!!!  You should have your detailed outline on paper for Monday. The more developed and refined this outline is, the better feedback you'll be able to get, so don't settle for just getting something done.

Reading details: Count your research time spent outside of class toward your 120 minutes, as well as any time your spent reading Absolutely True Diary, including on class days that you were actively reading when the bell rang and read for the entire 10 minutes.  For research, be specific about what you accomplished and when.

You only need to make one post this week, but it will count as two.  Make sure each paragraph is fully developed and that you address the whole prompt.

Post 1 (20 points): In your first paragraph, explain your research topic and preliminary findings to a friend (or sibling, parent, etc.).  Tell this person why you are interested in this topic and what, specifically, you have learned about it so far in relation to your research question.  This can be informal - try to keep the person's interest and maintain a sense of conversation in your writing.  Include your answer to your research question (thesis) in everyday language.

In your second paragraph, explain your topic again more formally, like you might in a paper or a formal class presentation.  Include the same type of information and level of detail--including your thesis--but work on more sophisticated word choices and sentence structures.

For Tuesday, 1/21

Work on your notecards!  Remember our goal is to have 20-30 by Wednesday.

Please post your working/reading time only.

Welcome Back! Blog Posts for 1/13

Two posts this week as we get back into the routine.  Two full paragraphs per response, please.

1. One more post based on a student-generated prompt.  You may use one you didn't choose from the last assignment or one of these three:

Deven: Write about one interpretation of evil and then write about how you see this interpretation.

Madison: Imagine yourself in a scene from one of your favorite books. Rewrite that scene as if you were the character, with your thoughts streaming throughout the scene. Also, feel free to change any choices made by the original character; remember, this is from your point of view, so what would you do in that situation?

Emelia: Prompt: Come up with a question to ask several people, list their responses, and talk about your favorite response.

(the authors of the three prompts here get to skip this post)

2. Research, research, research.  Explain your topic, why should we care about it, and what specifically is on your research to-do list this week?

Please include your log of 120 minutes reading / working time this week, including any out-of-class (English or History) time spent on your research project.

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