Old School Blog for chapters 1 & 2

Pick one of the blog questions to explore (see the handout I gave you for the list). 

Stick to one focus and write thoughtfully about the assigned reading.

In your response go back to the text and analyze specific sentences, images, and details that connect to your big idea. 

Use the Tips for an Effective Blog for guidance.  Include a fitting title as well as your name,  Don't forget to proofread.

Blog assignment #2: "Barn Burning"

                                                                              Image taken from the Films Media Group's website

Write about an idea you have about the story that we read in class.  Your idea doesn't have to cover the whole story -- it could focus on one specific passage or passages. Look for ideas from the class activities and discussions that surrounded our exploration of this text.

Develop that idea with specific details from the text. Talk in detail about the examples you use and how they relate to your bigger idea.

Give your entry a title that fits your idea. Also don't forget to include your name.

Outside reading quarter one -- near the beginning of your book

         After you have read a few chapters, it is time to take a moment to start noticing things. 

Before you start writing take 10 minutes and do our NOTICE AND FOCUS strategy.  Make a list of your observations on a sheet of paper.  Then go through your list, look for patterns or connections.  Start asking questions and posing possible interpretations or ideas (at this point, they just might be predictions).  Free write, list, do what works for you.  Then look at your ideas; pick one you can really sink your teeth into, and then start your blog!  Keep focused on that one idea and develop it with connections to the specifics in the text. 

The Power of Books

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”

-- Auden, W. H.  

 

Books are very powerful. They can take us to a different world where we may learn about other people, cultures, lifestyles, etc., but books can also make us learn about ourselves.

 

Directions:  Think of a book you read this summer where when you put it down you were full of emotion. It could be anger, jealousy, shock, happiness, etc. Share with us why that particular book or a situation in that book had an impact on you.

 

Please include:

1.  Title of the book

2.  Author

3.  A brief plot summary of the entire book if you would like to talk about it in    

 its entirety or a brief summary of a situation in the book.

4.  How and why a specific scene, character, passage, situation, or perspective in the book had an impact on you.

 5.  What you discovered about yourself, your world, or your perspective.