Our Perfect Piece

This Wednesday you must have completed your perfect piece and have it printed (on paper) in class.

By Friday you must post your revisions based on Wednesday's workshop.

For Thursday have one good question written down that somehow incorporates something we've read for the Holocaust visitors. Post it on your reading blog before Wednesday night.

Afterschool Tuesday June 1^st it is recommended you come for a questions and answer sessions with Dr. McCombs.

KJV Gospel Podcasts

http://jcsm.org/Contents/MP3KJVBible.htm

 

Download the Gospel you'll be focusing on this week. This way you won't have to read it aloud.

Perfection

What's the best piece you've written this semester? Bring it printed to class on Wednesday.

We'll also begin some outside reading in class for our new unit on journalism.

http://meetingwords.com/p74DnEt9e3

Revise here:

Blogging and Maxims

We'll conferencing your blogs this Friday. Be sure to keep up to date with your blog's topics and other blogs. Remember reading other blogs is part of blogging.

This week I'll ask you to begin thinking about what has been your best blog entry so far this year, to be presented next Wednesday.

Synthesizing and Blogging

In your reading blog tonight compare Maus to Night in their presentations of the Hebrew God and faith.



Throughout this week, you must continue blogging, incorporating a minimum of four hyperlinks.

Night, Maus, and Job

This week you must read Night every night and respond to what you read in a blog entry to be posted on your reading blog. We'll be reading some everyday in class.

In addition you should be occasionally updating your writing blogs as you see fit.

This Week

As usual, you must keep up to date writing and reading for your writing blog. We'll be conferencing about them Thursday.

Also, remember that we have Election Day on Wendesday. Have your campaigns ready.

Remember the spelling quiz letters (JKL) for Friday.

This Week

This week I'd like to see you continue to blog, and follow (as well as respond) to other blogs. Also, check out some of the other class' blogs. They've been reading yours.

Remember we've postponed Metamorphoses performances for this Thursday. Also, remember Wednesday we will have our election day. You'll need to have your campaign posters, commercials, as well as candidate speech ready to be delivered.

More Blogs

Here are some other blogs from 9th grade. Feel free to comment and establish a blogger relationship with them:
http://preap9thgradethequestions.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-is-blog.html

This Week

In this week's writing blogs, be sure to hyperlink at least three of the blogs you follow in entries. I'd also like to see active writing (as discussed in class on Tuesday).

Friday you will perform your scenes from Metamorphoses.

This Week

As you blog you must insert five hyperlinks to the blogs you are following.

You're scenes will be performed on Friday. Also, you're commericals are due on that same day.

We've also got a spelling quiz on letters E and F.

Over break you should complete Maus.

Good-bye Extraneous Punctuation

This Week

As you blog this week begin eliminating ellipses and emoticons. One exclamation point will also be more than enough. Remember posting is your responsibility. It is part of being a good blogger. In addition to posting be sure to keep up with the blogs you've now identified as similar to yours. I’d like to see at least three hyperlinks to one of them. You should also continue outreach to develop interest about your blog among other bloggers.Friday we’ll conference again.

This Week

Keep blogging! We'll be grading them again this week. Remember posting is your responsibility, part of being a good blogger. In addition to posting be sure to keep up with the blogs you've now identified as similar to yours. You should also continue outreach to develop interest about your blog among other bloggers.

Also, Friday we have a spelling quiz.

This Week

In addition to the constant maintaining of your writing blog, you must by Tuesday read the following article and comment on it in your reading blog:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/28/david-mitchell-science-fiction

Please include some clips from youtube to support (and embellish) your reaction.

We'll be reading some of your comments in class.

Here are some blogs from other 9th grade classes

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2056705651800961981&postID=3541222986866118585

Blog Basics

Okay, please read this carefully because this will get complicated.

The first step is easy: Identify five blogs similar to yours using blogged, blogarama, http://www.blogs.com/, inventive google searches and links from one blog to the next. When you have them ready, list them on your writing blog in a sidebar that you can import.

The second step is a bit arduous: go into your reading blog. On it for all five blogs, describe their audience, register and angle.

Lastly, you must comment on three blogs, specifically. While commenting be sure to introduce yourself, etc. This will most likely improve your readership.

When finished you must write a writing blog entry and include hyperlinks.

This Week

Continue to blog, only that this week I'd like to see your response to our writer's workshop, as well as other exercises in class.

This Week

Maintain your writing blog (as specified last week).

Comment on at least three other classmate's blogs.

Complete your op-ed article (we'll start in class Thursday).

Tips for Blogging Tech

http://bloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/

This Week's Assignments

This week I'll be evaluating your writing blogs based on the following:

- frequency of posting
- topic and angle
- reaching out

Be sure to include some links from other blogs (minimum five) as well. This is a fine way to increase your readership. Find them at www.blogged.com.

And finally, I'll be assessing your mechanics and grammar in your writing blog.

For this week we will only conduct reading blogs in class.

Reading Blog

Reading to Blog

What’s more important the book or our interpretations of the book? Can there be a book without there being interpretation? We’ll be able to answer some of those questions after we’ve recorded the history of our relationships with our books.

In order to preserve paper and promote our communication with the academic world outside of CNG, we’ll be keeping blogs about the books we read.

You will write your own blogs, and respond to your blogs as prescribed by your weekly homework blog entry. You should not approach each blog the same way. With variety comes varied thought; therefore, I propose focusing on different topics and using different approaches in each entry.

Here are some possibilities:

-Respond to the text personally:
I never had my house blown down by a wolf, but I have felt loss. For example, I once abandoned my favorite apartment. I left most of my furniture there, some clothes, even a television!

-Connect text to another book, a film, work of art, a comic or any other creation:
The Three Little Pigs reminds me of The Matrix. When the Wolf “huffed and puffed and blew his house down” he acted just as Morpheus did for Reeve’s character. Suddenly, Reeves was without the security he once felt.

-Ask questions to later answer:

What might the grandmother represent?Why would the Wolf want to blow down the houses?How might I write a better ending?I would then maybe answer these questions in later blogs.

You may use any combination of these, or you can write your own type of entries. Let your reading guide your entries. Check StandardScore weekly for your reading blog grades starting next Friday.

Getting Started

Let's start thinking about some possible blog ideas. What interests you? What access do you have that most internet readers do not? What kind of tone do you like to write in?

After answering these questions go to www.blogged.com and find blogs that relate to what you
would like to write about.

For each three answer and post the following:
A. What is the title of the blog?
B. What is the blog about?
C. Why is this title fitting?
D. How does the blogger offer information in a way others don't?
E. Compare this blog with another of the same topic.
F. Evalute this blog. Is it good or not? How can it be improved?

What is a blog?

Read this:
http://weblogs.about.com/od/startingablog/p/WhatIsABlog.htm

Now, in a new window create your own blog at blogger.com.

When finished post your answers to the following questions:
A. What does "blog" mean?
B. Define "blogging."
C. What is the difference between a blog and a book?
D. How have blogs changes recently?
E. Why might you read a blog?
F. Is there reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?
G. What do you think our blog will be about this semester?