By now I'm sure that you heard me mention blogs at least a few times (and if you're another English class, you have hopefully written one). It is now the English 10 class' turn to join in on blog writing.
I spend a lot of my free time attempting to come up with new ways to interact with texts and materials. This is my most recent endeavor. While my English classes may not be happy to be creating blogs so that they can interact with texts and each other in a technological setting, they are Surely Out of Luck.
Using blogs in education is beneficial to the students' critical and analytical thinking, it increases students' interaction with one another while discussing content and texts, it will increase students exposure to quality content, allows for students to interact while outside of the classroom, and also offers a means for students to express their thoughts on a topic completely.
Obviously, some may try to take their blogging to a new level and even try to push the envelope on what is appropriate for the school-based use. The things that students need to know about their blog posts are: 1. If I deem their post inappropriate they will be asked to remove it and receive no credit for their work. 2. Writing conventions are certainly going to be graded. 3. Each blog post must be at least 300 words and will be worth 10 points.
So what are we writing about, anyway? Your task is to envision yourself in Mr. Leonard Mead's world ("The Pedestrian" by Bradbury) and determine how you would handle the predicament that he finds himself in. Would you even be in such a situation? Why or why not? It might be helpful to think about what or whom seems to be in control in the society in which he lives.
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