Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Peer Editing Criteria
Please review the criteria for peer-editing. Your blog is being graded on content, writing style, and grammar; the attributes that you will be checking during the peer-editing process are essentially the style and grammar portion of your grade.
Blog Peer-Editing Checklist Items
Proper nouns are capitalized, including names of people and places, book titles, blog title, entry titles, and “I.”
Book titles are italicized.
Appropriate spelling and punctuation are used.
Standard English is used. That means no weird slang, purposely incorrect spellings, “u,” “OMG,” etc.
Blog has at least ten entries.
Questions for entries 2-10 are open-ended (no plot summary).
First entry introduces title, author, and general info about main book.
Blog and profile are free of identifying personal information.
Extra Credit Discussion Question #3
In The Fellowship of the Ring, Arwen tells Aragorn that she would rather live a mortal life with him than an immortal life without him. If you could choose to live for thousands of years without aging too much, would you pick that over a regular human life? Why or why not?
To review characters, see http://www.lord-of-the-rings.org/books/lotr_characters.html.
To review characters, see http://www.lord-of-the-rings.org/books/lotr_characters.html.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Extra Credit Discussion Question #2
In our first question, we discussed whether or not "men...above all else, desire power." Do you think that the narrator in The Fellowship of the Ring meant "people" desire power, or that "males" desire power? XoTropicanaXo said that she agreed with the narrator, and offered the female portagonist of Money Hungry as an example. What do you think?
Monday, March 1, 2010
Extra Credit Discussion Question #1
For extra credit on your blog project, post a comment in response to this discussion question. Make sure to check for typos and use the "paragraph hand."
In the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, the narrator say that men "...above all else, desire power." Do you think this is accurate? Why or why not? Give examples from books or real life to support your reasoning.
In the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, the narrator say that men "...above all else, desire power." Do you think this is accurate? Why or why not? Give examples from books or real life to support your reasoning.
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