Blog Post #7 due Wednesday 6/3/15

After finishing your reading, write a review that includes your overall response of the reading and three highlights from the reading that you were able to connect with. (not allowed to reuse quotes from past posts) 

Talk about the intended audience of the book and how the author attempts to connect with/persuade them based on the ending.

Include a recommendation, or explain why you do NOT recommend it.

Blog Post #6 due 6/1/15

Writers will use punctuation to organize ideas, but also to give themselves a unique style or tone. 

1) Reproduce a passage from your reading so far in which the author makes some interesting choices with punctuation.  This may be a liberal use of commas or semicolons, exclamation points, ellipses, parenthetical phrases, etc.

2) Explain how the interesting punctuation functions within the passage.  Defend or critique the writer's use of punctuation. 

Post #5 and comment due Friday 5/29/15

For post #5

1.) Link a portion of your reading (should be through section 7 by now) to an event or experience in your life.  This will require you to:

• Define/explain the portion of your reading to your audience
• Define/explain your experience or event
• Define/explain how the two are linked in a logical way

2.) Read your classmates' Blog Post #5s and write a relevant and appropriate comment on what they wrote.

Post #4 due Thursday 5/28/15

Look at dialogue in your reading so far.


Find some templates that we studied early in the semester from "They Say, I Say" that your author uses to present a claim.  (This includes delicious quote sandwiches.)  Reproduce the template/sandwich on your blog and "label" it for your readers.  Explain how it is relevant for a particular argument to be made in your reading.

Blog Post #3 and comment due Tuesday 5/26/15

In Blog Post #3:

1) In your reading so far, select a passage that is particularly driven by rhetorical appeal and/or rhetorical devices and reproduce it on you blog.
2) Go into detail identifying and explaining the appeals or devices you have selected.
3) Put the passage you have selected, and the rhetorical qualities of it, in perspective with the rest of your reading so far to explain how your independent reading choice functions as an "argument."  What is the argument of your reading?  (Think SOAPSTone)
4) Comment on one of your classmate's blog posts from the past.  Must be relevant and appropriate.

Blog Post #2 and comment due Thursday 5/21/15

1.  Search your classmates' blogs, find and comment on a connection in method between your choices in reading and theirs.

2.  Read through section 2 and write a ~500 word synopsis (look this word up if you need to) of what you have read so far.  After your synopsis, include personal reactions to the reading in response style.

Reminder: publishable quality.

Blog Post #1 due Tuesday 5/19

Blog Post #1

1. Read at least section 1 from your reading schedule.
2. Explain the process of your independent book selection in detail.  What were some of the things you considered and why?  Genre?  Length?  Subject matter?  Author?
3. Research the author and include interesting information that you find that may be relevant to your reading.
4. Title your post something creative but relevant.