Make sure you are following the directions on the Blog handout
that is attached to your syllabus and the directions below:
Blog entries for each reading assignment are due the NIGHT BEFORE
you have class. For example, your first blog post will need to be
completed Sunday night 9/19 since we have class on Monday 9/20. You will
earn a COMPLETION grade for these--only posts completed ON TIME will be
counted. Remember, the blog will "date and time stamp" your
entries so I will know if your post was, in fact, completed on time.
At the end of the unit, you will pick two of your posts to be
turned in at the end of the semester to be evaluated for a CONTENT grade.
Only posts completed ON TIME (see above) are eligible to be submitted.
For each reading assignment you will be expected to find and
respond to ONE PASSAGE from the novel. You need to include the passage
(cite it correctly) and then write a 250-300 word analysis of the quote.
Go beyond the surface. Discuss the significance of the passage to
the chapter or novel as a whole, OR go in-depth and do a close-reading of the passage
to discuss the techniques Hesse uses AND the effect these have on YOU, the
reader! Remember to use your DIDLS and SCASI notes to guide your
analysis!
Also, you will be required to RESPOND to 2 of your group members’
posts. Your responses should be 100-150
words in length. In order to do this
thoughtfully and well, we’d like you to try using these sentence starters to
help get you started. Here they are. . .
·
My idea is similar to
(piggybacks on, is like, complements, etc) your idea. For example. . .
·
We both think that
____________. However, I also think
_____________ . Evidence from the text to support this is . . .
·
You make a very good
point about ______________ . However, I’d like to argue that . . . .
·
Another example from
the text that would also support your analysis is __________ . I think this because . . .
·
Your analysis is
really interesting. It made me think about (another section of the book,
another text, a movie, an experience I had, a story I heard on the news, the
background presentation about _______) because. . .
·
I had a different
reaction to this passage. I think . . .
·
The other literary
device/element/technique that I saw in this passage was __________. It affected mood and tone . . .
You will be in a blogging group of 6-7 to blog about the novel, Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse. You will find your folder to the right of this post in the margin and post there. The groups are listed below:
Period 5
Group 1: Morgan Acoba, Al Atieh, Kiarn Bath, Katja Berger, Brady Boling, Maleane Chin
Group 2: Dante DeSimone, Eirik Haughbro, Hajir Hosseini Azar, Emily Howard, Brittany Hua, Kaelin Immel
Group 3: Noah Kremer, Casey Kunzat, Sophia Lamothe, Justin Lim, Isaac Livingston, Elicia Manuel
Group 4: Sam Maxon, Issabell Melz, Chris Miyasako, Kaleelah Muhammad, Ethan Nguyen, Nam Nguyen
Group 5: Sarah Pellicer, Cyan Perry, Ellie Poulin, McKenna Poulos, Zeyad Shureih, Jared Soo
Group 6: Ariel Spinks, Kaitlyn Stoehr, Abhin Swaminathan, Avery Turner, Gabrielle Werst, Esther Wang, McKenna Zandecki
Period 7
Group 1: Cullen Allard, Karim Amer, Dan Asisa, Andrea Badillo, Jessica Barney, K.C. Bielec
Group 2: Diana Carey, Zoe Connelly, Kaden Cui, Kelly Do, Kylie Fernandez. Adam Fisher
Group 3: Maya Gonzalez-Hull, Sarah Greenberg, Melanie Harrell, Alicia Holt, Thomas Iverson, Stephan Kaidan
Group 4: Jin Kiatvongcharoen, Kaylee Kitayama, Holly LaPlante, Nathan Maisonville. Amber Mao, Ana Mehrabad
Group 5: Molly Morey Jackson Morris, Kris Murray, Rachel Neal, Dan Olson, Delfina Pastor, Gabriela Pinto
Group 6: , Rishi Purohit, Nick Rex, Rebekah Rygh, Elliot Schloss, Laurel Shepard, Bella Spagnuolo, Felix Tubiera
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