I don’t know what each of our 11th graders’ reading scores are, but I’m seeing some impressive insights as I read through these blogs, so I would hope that any standardized test would be legitimate enough to capture your abilities. I consider The Old Man and the Sea a difficult book, but you are reading [...]
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Today’s entry concerns what we have read in The Old Man and the Sea. Again, I am letting you determine the content, but I am starting you out with the simple question, “What are you noticing as we read the book?” You could tell readers some of the questions you have had so far or [...]
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Blog your opinions on reading out loud or on The Old Man and the Sea itself. This time, you are dictating the content of your article more than you have on past entries. You could make it more interesting by telling a story about other times teachers have read out loud, for better or for [...]
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Write a quick blog article about what you read and how you connected with it. Explain in there what you thought about Equiano’s piece and how your connection may have helped you understand the description better.
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Each of you has found one paragraph of what you consider to be great descriptive writing and you have shared that paragraph with other people in your class. Now I’d like you to pick what you consider to be the best piece of descriptive writing you have read today (that means it could be one [...]
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It looks like we’ve launched this blogging thing well. The next tip I’d like to show you is how to create blogrolls to your friends’ sites and back to our class’s page. That will make it easier for people to navigate through more of our class’s thoughts.
Look to the blogrolls to the right and make [...]
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Welcome to Mr. Sheehy’s weblog. I teach high school English in Rapid City, SD, and this is the place where I post my random thoughts on any subject that pops into my head. I am convinced that much of the best writing genuinely expresses the heart of the writer. If you are willing to read [...]
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For your first entry, I’d like you to describe your frame of mind as we begin English 11 and as I make you begin a blog. What is your understanding of a blog, and do you think it will serve a valid purpose? What is your experience with blogs or Internet use in general? Explain [...]
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Of Mice & Men Worth It
