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1. If you do not have the class blog listed on your reading list on your dashboard do this: Go to your dashboard (click on the blogger icon on the top left of your screen) and add the class blog address : mcceng2d.blogspot.com to your READING LIST.
HOW ? There is a way!! What is that way????
While on your dashboard, scroll down to the bottom half where you will see 'READING LIST' Look for the button that says ADD - click on it and follow the instructions (once you have done this, it will be that much easier to access the instructions on the class blog, as you will only need to go to your own dashboard to get to the class blog.)
2. If your name is NOT listed on the class blog list to the right of this post, come and tell me what your blog address is (www. ?????.blogspot.com) and I will link it to the class blog.
3. Finish your first two posts.....you are WAYYYYY behind now.
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NOW THIS WEEK's POST. . . .
This week in class we have been defining words - the connotation and the denotation and describing what effect the words have had on us and our perceptions of the characters we have been introduced to. This week you will be defining and describing.
As always, begin your blog post by identifying the novel you are currently reading. Do this correctly using the MLA format for citations. You can use easybib.com - which is a great tool for creating correct MLA bibliographic entries.
See another example of a properly formatted MLA citation below:
Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic, 2010. Print.
(You may also choose to add a visual for the novel using the 'Add Image' icon found on your NEW POST toolbar. Be sure to include a citation for your borrowed image.)
(You may also choose to add a visual for the novel using the 'Add Image' icon found on your NEW POST toolbar. Be sure to include a citation for your borrowed image.)
Remember too that when you include a DIRECT quotation from your novel, be sure to you include an 'in text citation' identifying its source.
SEE BELOW:
SEE BELOW:
(Collins, Mockingjay 15)
This week I want you to write about the theme of justice, revolution, rebellion or courage as it applies to your novel. Below are instructions for a three paragraph response.
1. Identify and then define the theme as you understand it.
2. Then describe how (there is a way. . . ) it is presented in your novel (relate your description specifically to character, plot, conflict, setting etc.). Use a direct quotation to help you provide evidence of the existence of the theme you selected.
3. Finish your post by explaining what you believe the character , plot, conflict or setting you selected to describe has TOLD you about your theme.
1. Identify and then define the theme as you understand it.
2. Then describe how (there is a way. . . ) it is presented in your novel (relate your description specifically to character, plot, conflict, setting etc.). Use a direct quotation to help you provide evidence of the existence of the theme you selected.
3. Finish your post by explaining what you believe the character , plot, conflict or setting you selected to describe has TOLD you about your theme.
There is a student sample of the second part of your required response below: (note - this response is missing a description of the context of the excerpt and the definition of justice which weakens it).
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Sanderson, Brandon, Isaac Stewart, Ben McSweeney, and Greg Call. The Way of Kings. New York: Tor, 2010. Print.
“I understood in a moment of stillness. Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.” (Sanderson, The Way of Kings 122)
This is a part in the novel called The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, where the main character Kaladin becomes enlightened. He realizes that humans, like the flame of a candle, can be fragile but can also be deadly if there is no justice and law holding them back. The highlighted part of this excerpt is the revelation that he comes to. What we take from this excerpt is that all men are as fragile as glass; the only thing holding them back from harming themselves and others, is the presence of a box to confine them which is metaphorically the presence of justice. This excerpt tells me that the presence of justice is the only thing that prohibits men from destroying each other. Men when “left alone, [would light] and warm” (122) but when me are “let run rampant” (122) without the law or justice, they would destroy everything.
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