Monday, October 12, 2009

Outside Reading: The Why

As you complete your outside reading project this week, you are sure to be thinking about the "why" component of your dominant literary element. Follow these instructions for this post:
  1. Title your post with the title of your book and the literary element you are discussing, for example "Slaughterhouse 5: Irony." This way your classmates will be able to immediately see what your post will discuss. 
  2. Discuss the question, "why did the author use this literary element so heavily?" Write at least two paragraphs. Your response will not be graded as part of your project, but should help you hash out your ideas in order to do address the idea more clearly on the actual project. 
  3. Comment on the blog post of a classmate who is reading a book that you read either over the summer or for this assignment. In your comment, give him/her feedback as to what you think of his/her "why."
This post and comment is due Thursday by 7:00 p.m. - do it early so you have more time to focus on your project due Friday!

9 comments:

  1. can we comment on someone in another of your classes?. So far I haven't found a single Monte Cristo or Bell Tolls reader. Probably aren't any in any class though.

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  2. no one read the same book as me. what should I do?

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  3. http://thomasm1.blogspot.com/
    that's my URL

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  4. Its caroline(3rd period), can we use a version of our answer to this weeks blog assignment for the " why does the author use this device" question on our project?
    Thanx
    by the way i love this class!!!

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  5. hey Mrs. Gillman just thought I'd let you know that I tried really hard to make the title under my name on the right side of the page say "The Alchemist: Imagery" but it won't work. :(

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  6. Please, enjoy.

    http://nokkhe.blogspot.com/2009/10/slaughter-house-five-irony.html

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  8. Oh no! I thought you meant it was due Thursday, as in before 12 midnight, like the other blog posts.

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  9. i wrote my blog, but i've changed my mind on the most prevelent literary element, should i rewrite it?

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