Welcome to English III!
Our focus this year will be to navigate the ins and outs of American Literature. As we explore the many great writers of America, we will also strive to improve our own writing. Please view this page of my blog as a resource for you in this class as well as a place for me to share some of my own ideas on what we are reading and writing about as well.
In this class, we will create our own blogs which we will use to creatively examine the readings we do this year. Unlike your weekly essays (which will mainly be analytical), these blogs are for you to respond not only to our readings, but to each other as well. I will post weekly discussion questions or creative assignments to help you get started, but you are welcome to offer up your own thoughts or interpretations on the reading. You may also choose to respond to each other's ideas as well.
We will spend one of our first classes creating your blog so don't despair if you have no idea about where to begin! If you wish to get started on your own, just go to the site www.blogger.com and follow the steps to get started. Once you have set up your blog, please email me a link to you blog so that I may share it with your classmates.
Our focus this year will be to navigate the ins and outs of American Literature. As we explore the many great writers of America, we will also strive to improve our own writing. Please view this page of my blog as a resource for you in this class as well as a place for me to share some of my own ideas on what we are reading and writing about as well.
In this class, we will create our own blogs which we will use to creatively examine the readings we do this year. Unlike your weekly essays (which will mainly be analytical), these blogs are for you to respond not only to our readings, but to each other as well. I will post weekly discussion questions or creative assignments to help you get started, but you are welcome to offer up your own thoughts or interpretations on the reading. You may also choose to respond to each other's ideas as well.
We will spend one of our first classes creating your blog so don't despair if you have no idea about where to begin! If you wish to get started on your own, just go to the site www.blogger.com and follow the steps to get started. Once you have set up your blog, please email me a link to you blog so that I may share it with your classmates.
You are expected to write at least one response per week (10 weeks = 10 responses) on the texts we are reading in class. Responses should be at least 250 words in length and should have correct spelling as well as grammar. I will be grading your responses on a ten point scale, with a 10 being outstanding and 0 meaning you wrote nothing that week.
View your blog as your personal journal/ reflection space, so be creative! I look forward to reading your responses.
