1b+-+English+9+Blogroll

 **Final blog deadline for the year: 4 entries are due by May 31st**

Required blog topic for April - May: //**Pros and cons of blogging - how did you feel about your blogging experience this year? Waste of time, or productive endeavor? Be honest (but kind!) so I can evaluate the use of this activity for next year's incoming freshmen.**//

[|100 Blog Toipcs I Hope You Write About] [|Top 10 Most Interesting Things to Blog About] [|101 Ideas to Make your Blog Sizzle]
 * Blog topic suggestions from the Internet:**

Next blog due date, 3rd quarter: (Entries will be considered on time if posted before midnight on the due date.) - 3 complete entries due on or before 31 January. //(Students earn better grades if their blog entries are not all posted at 11 p.m. on the 31st.)//

Tired of blogging? Design your own PWP (personalized writing project): If you aren't finding that the blog format works for you, you are welcome to design an alternative writing project to replace your blog. You do not have to make it public for your classmates to read, although you do need to give me access to it, so I can grade you. Some options include: 1. Short stories or a novel-in-progress 2. An autobiography 3. Poetry 4. A collection of letters to public or private entities (see this [|example]) 5. A reading journal about what you've been reading on your own time OR in class

If you are interested in any of these ideas, or need some help designing a different project, please see me or send me an e-mail. The idea is for you to develop your writing by writing about something of interest to you - if the blog format isn't working, there's no reason you shouldn't come up with a project that matches your interests better.

Note: you need to attribute the images you find online with at least a link to their original sites. [|Use this resource to create a shortened link to those pages.] Include the link as a caption below your image. (Thanks to Allan for the link.)

Links to all English 9 Blogs: (if you're short on ideas, browse the blogs with asterisks - they're good examples) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">1st period <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Build Me a Boat *] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Always Believing*] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Inside an Asian Girl's Life] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|A Blog with its Unique Personality] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|The World According to Me*] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Bucky's Beautiful Blog] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|We Heart That] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|You, Me and My Life] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Half of Me You'll Never Know] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|In Love with the Game] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Surfing Time in Panama] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Herbert's Cooky Blog] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Easy Recipes] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|V's Book Blog] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Good Ole' Flash] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Me]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">2nd period <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Utterly and Entirely Useless*] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|As Good as it Gets*] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Friends are the Comfort Food of Life*] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|XOXO] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Adding it All Up*] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|The Greatest Blog in the World] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Something New to Eat] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|From Caracas with Love] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|What Else Could it Be?] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Tea Time*] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Welcome to my World] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|The V Blog*] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|My View of It*] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Me, Myself & I] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Just Me and Nothing Else]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">6th period <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|No Namer] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Me my Blog and my boring High School Life] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Blog With No Point] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Simply Me] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|ClairBear and the Blog] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|N.A.B.B.] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|My Wonderland] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Jake´s Blog]

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Optional blog topics: __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**1. Review a movie you've seen lately, an album you've been listening to, or a TV show you feel strongly about.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**2. Write about your most recent vacation - where did you go? Did you like it? Include some photos if you can.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**3. What's frustrating you about high school? Write about it.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**4. Write a poem or a short story (or an installment of a short story).** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**5. How is ECA different / the same / better / worse than past schools you've attended?** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**6. What's your family like? Immediate family (parents, siblings)? Extended family (grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins)? What are your family traditions?** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**7. What plans do you have for your life - what do you want to do after college?** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**8. What celebrities interest you, or anger you?** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**9. What are your favorite hobbies? Write about an activity you really love.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**10. What are the biggest challenges or causes of stress in your life? How do you deal with them?** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**11. Write about some favorite memories - a special summer, a trip you took, an old friend, a childhood game, elementary or middle school, etc.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**12. Where have you traveled (in Venezuela, or elsewhere)? What were your impressions?** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**13. Write about your favorite foods, or foods you like to prepare yourself.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**14. Post creative writing - fiction, poetry, an essay, a personal narrative, etc.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**15. What are your friends like? What do you do with them?** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**16. What are your views on controversial topics in the news? Problems you see in the world around you? (Write respectfully, even about topics that inspire passion in you.)** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**17. What did you do during your vacation in December / January? Describe your travels, or your holiday with family.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**18. Did you make any New Year's Resolutions? What are they? Have you broken them already?** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**19. Reflect on your first semester of high school, and / or your first final exams.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**20. How does it feel to return to school for second semester after what was nearly as long as a summer holiday?**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**These are all viable ideas, but the best blogs that students are currently writing are about their unique observations on the world around them. They notice things that are odd, or exciting, or frustrating, and evaluate these trends / behaviors / ideas. Your blog is a place to develop your natural voice as well as your writing conventions. If you write about something that is truly interesting to you, your voice will emerge naturally.**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**To advertise your blog: submit your address to some of these sites, and more people will eventually visit.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**[|Free Web Submission]**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">__Required blog topics from past months:__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Period ending 15 October: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">write a review of a book you are currently reading or have recently completed during daily silent reading. //Your review should include both a discussion of the book's content and your opinion of it; you should not reveal the ending. Also, indicate whether or not// //you are willing to lend the book to your classmates.//