Gunning

This week complete three more blog entries. I'd like you to write at least one based on an entry from someone else's blog. Also, be sure to be including vocabulary when necessary - 'kay?

Also, Wednesday or Thursday your revised essays are due. Be sure to have them printed and stapled.

The Billy Pilgrimage

I'd like you complete three reading blogs over the next week.

For Wednesday or Thursday's Writers Workshop, be sure to bring in your essays for one last revision.

And So It...

This Wednesday or Thursday be sure to bring in your revised synthetic essays.

Continue to read and blog as well. Let's begin the week by just responding to one another's blogs. Respond to at least three other blogs about Slaughterhouse-Five. We'll look at your responses together in class.

In addition please write one blog entry this weekend.

Reading at Home

This week I'd like you all to take out copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. By next Monday I'd like you to have written two reading blogs. For each reading blog, please respond to 15-20 pages of text.

Also, this Wednesday or Thursday (depending on your section) bring in your revisions of your synthetic essays.

What is a 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, as well as to 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 hope you focus on different topics and take 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.

-Visual Vocabulary

Select the words you think it was important to define in the text. Match a picture to it on your blog post.

-Hyperlink

You might want to use the 21^st century's answer to footnotes when you're talking about something that is not common knowledge. We'll do a demo of how to insert a hyperlink in class.

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.

Other Obverse-Reverse Flags

Emilia Pulido mentioned Paraguay's two-sided flag, per our conversation about allegory and flags.

Here are some examples.

Perfectiun

This week I'd like you to read "The Perfect Life" by John Koethe. Write one reading blog (to be explained in class) about the poem.

Also, complete your terza rima anthems by next Tuesday or Wednesday (depending on your section).

For Writers Workshop please bring in your revised synthetic essays.