Hello! Welcome to the magical and mysterious world of blogging! I realize that you are probably so excited to get started that you can hardly contain yourself, but take a deep breath and read these instructions before you begin.
This exercise in the blogosphere is an opportunity for each of you to reach beyond your notebook. Rather than hide your thoughts, rants, and inquisitiveness from each other, you will each create your own blog to share with the world.
Each week you will post TWO journal entries on your blog that answer writing prompts you will find here, on my blog. You will write about the book you are reading for your Literature Circles. If you would like to post additional material, feel free, BUT you must clearly label your two required weekly entries with: Reading Reflection Journal (DATE).
Caution! Remember that everything you post here can and will be used against you in the court of decency. Blogs live in the realm of public domain, and your postings should reflect that knowledge.
Assignment #1:
1. Create your own blog and link it to mine.
- Begin by going to blogger.com and clicking the "Get Started" button.
- Follow the steps outlined to create your blog. ***Remember your blog name will be public!***
- When you have completed setting up your blog, return here, to my blog, and comment on this post with your name, class period, and blog url.
Keep track of my postings by linking to my blog. To do so, look to the right and click the "Follow" link. You will then have access to your classmates posts to use as references, inspiration, and brainstorming.
2. Complete the following question in 10 words or less, and post on YOUR blog: Blogging is awesome because...
Book Suggestions.
Have you read any of these? How many?
1984 - George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Jamie's Dinners - Jamie Oliver
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
The Bible
The Qu'ran
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
The Odyssey - Homer
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara
The Illiad - Homer
Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy - Karl Marx
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Republic - Plato
Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Breakfast at Tiffanys - Truman Capote
The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Europe: A History - Norman Davies
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
Mr Nice - Howard Marks
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Are You Experienced? - William Sutcliffe
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
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