Bonus Points

 

If you embed an academic literary criticism of your novel and give two comments on it, you will receive an extra 10 points on your timed writing. In order to receive credit for this assignment, you must post the link to this blog assignment. You must include your first initial, last name, period and link to your blog with the embedded literary criticism. This is also due by January 13.

Assignment #3

DUE JANUARY 13th

Choose one blog from two different students from assignment #2. Take a look at the Blog Entry Rubric on this webpage, and decide what score you think they should receive. You will comment on these two blogs with the following:


A. Your initials and your period number.
B. The score they should receive.
C. One strength and one weakness that should be addressed.


You will then post a comment to this assignment with your first initial, last name, and your period number. You will post the links to both comments you made. The first comment to this post is an example of what your post should look like.
Your 2 posts will be a minor grade.

YOU MAY NOT COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT #3 UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETED ASSIGNMENT #2!

Assignment #2

Choose one of the three following discussion topics. You will create a TEAR paragraph in the form of a blog for the discussion question you choose to answer. Make sure to include the discussion topic, your first initial and last name, and period number at the top of your blog.

You will also post the link to your TEAR as a comment to this Assignment #2 blog (minor grade). Be sure, as always, to include your first initial, last name, period, and link to your TEAR in the post.

Below are the topics for your TEAR. Include three E and A couplets.

Topic One: Analyze a character from your novel whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences.

Topic Two: Select a primary character from your novel and write a well-organized essay in which you show how a character’s demise helps to illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.

Topic Three: In a well-organized essay discuss a character that must contend with some aspect of the past, either personal or societal, and show how their relation to the past contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.

** The evidence should be paraphrased evidence, not quoted evidence.

DON'T FORGET TO POST THIS ASSIGNMENT TO MY BLOG ASSIGNMENT #2 AS THE DIRECTIONS ABOVE EXPLAIN. THIS IS DUE JANUARY 13, ALONG WITH ASSIGNMENT #3.

*Blog Helpful Hints*

As we work throughout the week, we may encounter kinks we have not worked out yet. If you run into a problem, email me, or post a comment here, and I will do my best to address the issue.
Happy blogging!
Issue # 1: Enabling your blog to accept comments-
Click on Settings, then the Comments tab, then change "Comment Form Placement" to "Full Page." Click on "Save Settings" at the bottom of the page, and double check your Blog to make sure people can now add comments.

Assignment #1

First, you must create your blog. To start your blog, follow the slide share tutorial on how to create a blog on the right side of this page. Create your blog, and post a link to your blog as a comment here (Other grade). Make sure to include your first initial and last name, and your period number at the beginning of your comment.

The first comment to this post is an example of the comment you should post when you are done with Assignment #1.

Due Dates

The Dialectial Journal (15 entries) and Theme Chart (5 entries) will be due on Friday January 6, 2012.

Blog assignments 2 and 3 will be due by Friday, January 13, 2012. I will LOCK the comments section on Friday at 3 pm.

Happy blogging!

Introduction to the Winter Reading

Over the break, you will be reading one of the following books:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I will be posting three discussion topics to my blog. You will be expected to respond to one of the three topics on your own blog, and post comments to two other student’s blogs by Friday, January 13, 2012. You will receive an “other” grade for creating your blog, and posting the link to this Assignment #1 post.

You will receive two minor grades; one for your blog TEAR (Assignment #2), one for your comments on other people’s blogs (Assignment #3).

To complete this assignment, follow these steps.

1.     Go to my website: http://www.mrbrimmagesapenglishivclass.blogspot.com/ (you can also find the link on my Elsik AP English IV class page).

2.    You may want to become a follower of my blog to make movement between blogs easier for you.

3.    Look at my blog archives, and follow the directions to the assignments. There are three.

4.    You must complete the assignments in order. You cannot move on to Assignment #3 until you have completed your TEAR.

This project will also help to prepare you for your timed-writing assignment upon your return from Winter Break.

Dialectical Journal & Theme Chart (Other Grade)

Blog Assignment #1 (Other Grade)

Blog Assignment #2 (Minor Grade)

Blog Assignment #3 (Minor Grade)

Timed Writing (Major Grade)

Welcome Students

In the next couple weeks, we will be reading a literary novel outside of class. I will be posting blog topics here, which will be open for discussions. You will be given homework assignments which will be posted here. The work submitted here should be edited, refined, and of literary value. You may email me if you have any questions.