Friday, October 31, 2008
Blog Choice
Please check out the link to the "Top 20 Blog Posts" Web page (in the sidebar). The site provides 20 different types of blogs that you can create. You may choose one of the types of blogs and discuss any topic you wish. The main criteria for this blog is that it must be completed by the end of this class. It is an impromptu piece of writing (in preparation for the provincial exam). Please be as creative, or informative as possible. Use the highest level of vocabulary, and written expression that you can.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The Perils of Indifference
Read "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel on page 443 of "Echoes 12". (and if you have not read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson you need to read that as well).
Discuss the following questions in paragraph form:
1. Re-write the title "The Perils of Indifference" in your own words to show that you understand the vocabulary.
2. The ending of "The Lottery" is shocking for most readers. The graphic violence of the stoning seems completely bizarre for the members of a community that at first appeared so "normal" and passive. Please connect the events in this story to any other situation you have learned about in real life, or a movie or a book.
3. How does Elie Wiesel's speech relate to "The Lottery"? Please connect the townspeople in the story to the warnings that Elie gives, or make any other link between the two texts.
Discuss the following questions in paragraph form:
1. Re-write the title "The Perils of Indifference" in your own words to show that you understand the vocabulary.
2. The ending of "The Lottery" is shocking for most readers. The graphic violence of the stoning seems completely bizarre for the members of a community that at first appeared so "normal" and passive. Please connect the events in this story to any other situation you have learned about in real life, or a movie or a book.
3. How does Elie Wiesel's speech relate to "The Lottery"? Please connect the townspeople in the story to the warnings that Elie gives, or make any other link between the two texts.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Top 3
Today's blog challenge is to choose the top 3 (of anything) and justify your choice. You may choose the top three hockey players of all time, the greatest musicians, the top three reasons to do something...the possibilities are endless. Here is a suggested sequence of events for the blog:
1. Choose your topic
2. Choose the criteria you are using to make your choices, and explain it to the reader. For example, if you are ranking the top three hockey players, how are you choosing to judge them? Points scored? Plus/minus rating? Years in the league? Stanley Cups won?
3. Type your blog out by first explaining the topic you have chosen, and the criteria for your choices. Then state each of your top three choices, and dedicate approximately a paragraph to each one that justifies why it deserves the ranking you gave it. As always, formal language and proper spelling and grammar applies.
1. Choose your topic
2. Choose the criteria you are using to make your choices, and explain it to the reader. For example, if you are ranking the top three hockey players, how are you choosing to judge them? Points scored? Plus/minus rating? Years in the league? Stanley Cups won?
3. Type your blog out by first explaining the topic you have chosen, and the criteria for your choices. Then state each of your top three choices, and dedicate approximately a paragraph to each one that justifies why it deserves the ranking you gave it. As always, formal language and proper spelling and grammar applies.
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