For blog posts #1-4 did you. . .
1. Properly identify the novel you wrote about (you can do this through an image; at the least provide the title and author; an MLA style citation is preferred)?
2. Check that you used proper language conventions (punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence structure) after you posted each comment?
3. Organize your response into a coherent paragraph by writing a topic sentence, developing the details fully in the body with support, and concluding with a closing sentence rather than a list of items?
4. Use the text as support for your ideas by providing a direct quotation from the novel (with proper MLA style citations in brackets following the quotation) ?
5. Make sure that you gave short responses (between 60-100 wds) and answered each of the tasks you were required?
If you did not say yes to all of these go back and edit your first blog posts and only then proceed with this week's assignment described below.
Here is a sample of a post that contains all of the required elements:
This student included a picture of the cover of Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins as well as a proper MLA style bibliographic entry at the top of her blog post.
This novel uses suspense by creating scenes in the story where I question what is going to happen. The main character, Katniss, makes decisions based on instinct and heart by the author making her like this it creates suspense. The author uses suspense with many of the decisions that Katniss makes. "From behind door 3908 comes a sound. Just a tiny whimper. Like something a cowed dog might make to avoid being struck, only too familiar. My eyes meet Gale's for just a moment, but it's long enough for two people who operate the way we do." (Collins, Mockingjay 46). This line in the novel creates suspense by wondering what or who those sounds are coming from and also wondering what Katniss and Gale are going to do.
THIS WEEK:
This week I want you to identify two significant elements from the book you are currently reading. You may choose an element of setting, a character, an event, a quotation or really anything you feel has been 'important' in the text thus far.
Go back to your handout on significance for support.
Use a direct quotation (with a proper citation) to first identify the existence of this element in the book. Then, after you have consulted your significance list, describe how the element you picked is significant, making specific connections to other elements of fiction.
Here is a level 3+ sample: All this student needs to add is a direct quotation to each paragraph.
The Communist's Daughter- Dennis Bock
Significant Elements:
1. The War
2. Bethune's Daughter
The war helps create or maintain the atmosphere of a place, contribute meaningfully to the plot, create conflict or a complication for the main character, establish the theme of the text, establishes setting, and contribute to the visual appeal of the text. It creates a sad atmosphere, it helps the plot and creates conflict or complication because it stops him from being able to see his daughter making him write these series of envelopes to her. It's theme is the constant battles Bethune goes through the war is one of the many. Since our common sense is that the war was a terrible muddy dark dreadful thing it helps us get a visual appeal of the text. Since the war happened we've learned where it was and helps us know time period this book is placed in and also props.
Bethune's daughter (whom he has never met) helps reveal character traits about the main character, helps the audience undersand the character's motivations, create a plausible character in the mind of the reader, provide insight into the character's feelings or emotions. It shows that Bethune cares for his daughter or else he wouldn't be writing his life story to her. It helps the reader understand that he didn't just get up and leave his daughter that he still loves and misses her and he's motivated to live through the war and not leave her life empty not knowing what happened to her mother and father. This makes Bethune seem like a plausible character because he loves and cares for his daughter like any other loving father. It shows how he feels towards her, that he truly does miss her.
This week I want you to identify two significant elements from the book you are currently reading. You may choose an element of setting, a character, an event, a quotation or really anything you feel has been 'important' in the text thus far.
Go back to your handout on significance for support.
Use a direct quotation (with a proper citation) to first identify the existence of this element in the book. Then, after you have consulted your significance list, describe how the element you picked is significant, making specific connections to other elements of fiction.
Here is a level 3+ sample: All this student needs to add is a direct quotation to each paragraph.
The Communist's Daughter- Dennis Bock
Significant Elements:
1. The War
2. Bethune's Daughter
The war helps create or maintain the atmosphere of a place, contribute meaningfully to the plot, create conflict or a complication for the main character, establish the theme of the text, establishes setting, and contribute to the visual appeal of the text. It creates a sad atmosphere, it helps the plot and creates conflict or complication because it stops him from being able to see his daughter making him write these series of envelopes to her. It's theme is the constant battles Bethune goes through the war is one of the many. Since our common sense is that the war was a terrible muddy dark dreadful thing it helps us get a visual appeal of the text. Since the war happened we've learned where it was and helps us know time period this book is placed in and also props.
Bethune's daughter (whom he has never met) helps reveal character traits about the main character, helps the audience undersand the character's motivations, create a plausible character in the mind of the reader, provide insight into the character's feelings or emotions. It shows that Bethune cares for his daughter or else he wouldn't be writing his life story to her. It helps the reader understand that he didn't just get up and leave his daughter that he still loves and misses her and he's motivated to live through the war and not leave her life empty not knowing what happened to her mother and father. This makes Bethune seem like a plausible character because he loves and cares for his daughter like any other loving father. It shows how he feels towards her, that he truly does miss her.
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