Outside Reading Blog Assignments

Our first quarter outside reading assignment is for you to read text, including novels, nonfiction books, poems, plays, magazine and newspaper articles, websites, blogs, etc. Starting next week, you must post TWICE a week (by Wednesday and by Sunday) regarding your outside reading.

Here are the due dates for your outside reading posts:

Post #1, Sun. October 5
Post #2, Wed. October 8
Post #3, Sun. October 12
Post #4, Wed. October 15
Post #5, Sun. October 19
Post #6, Wed. October 22
Post #7, Sun. October 26
Post #8, Wed. October 29

What should the posts be about?
Write thoughtful responses to the texts that you read. The responses should be about 150 words. That’s about six, detailed sentences. You must cite the selection and author. Some possible ways to respond to texts include: pick a quote and comment on its significance, make connections to the book (self, text, world, media), analyze the protagonist, pretend you're writing an email to author or a character, or identify the thesis and discuss the supporting evidence. Just think of all of the reading minute thesis statements that you’ve written. You must attempt to use correct spelling and punctuation and capitalization

Commenting
You should make brief comments on your classmate’s blog posts, and remember that you can explore all EHS sophomore blogs through www.ehsenglish10.blogspot.com.

Other Blog Posts
Occasionally, you will be informed of other blog assignments and due dates that include writing and thinking maps on class content and discussion points.

GRADING OF BLOG POSTS: (50 points)

A - You have all of the posts. You have always posted on time. Your response was always highly thoughtful and reflective. You used correct mechanics almost all of the time.

B - You have all of the posts. You mostly posted on time. Your responses were mostly thoughtful and reflective. You used correct mechanics most of the time, but there are some glaring errors.

C - You have 6-7 of the posts. You sometimes posted on time.You responded to the text. You have several errors in mechanics.

D - You have about 4-5 posts total. You rarely posted on time. You somewhat responded to the text. Your responses do not make an attempt to use proper mechanics.

F - You have 0-3 posts. You did not do what was asked of you in the post. Your responses do not make an attempt to use proper mechanics.