Here's what you do

This is where you will be responding to the books you read.

First you must start reading. Sometime in the first half of the book you need to give a short (5 - 10 line), gut-level response stating what you like and don't like.

After finishing the book, write a longer poster (20-40 lines), in which you talk about the story elements, how well you think the book is written, how you responded to the story, and any connections you make between the book and other books, songs, real-life events, etc.

To post, click on the New Postt button, write the title of your book in the title space, and start writing. You may want to write your response with a wordprocessing program first and then paste it in.

You may post about your book more times if you want.

Remember to follow the class guidelines on the project and proper netiquette.

Happy blogging!



Blogging Guidelines

RUBRIC/GUIDELINES

~Grammar (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, usage)

~Netiquette

~One post during reading of book: 5-10 lines
- ch.1 – first half of book
- reaction to book so far

~One post after reading: 20-40 lines
- discussion of book (characters, setting, plot, themes, etc.)
- review book without spoiler
- recommend/rate book

~Two posts responding to other posts: 5-10 lines each

~Citations – included in every post and correctly formatted

**All items will be weighted equally.



Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Jake Ransom

Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow starts great, like an escape scene from an adventure movie. But there is no escape. The chapter sets up mysteries that begin to be resolved as the novel continues. The mystery aspect works well for me but the fantasy less well. It reminds me of that old, old show The Land That Time Forgot (do I have that right?) which was hokey and this seems hokey too. Hopefully, as all the questions are answered, the fantasy will get better grounded. I suspect this book will be part of a series because the title starts with the main character's name (remind you of another famous series?) so we need to buy into the premises of the author's world.
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  1. Mitch SelfJune 23, 2010 at 9:20 AM

    This is only a sample of what a comment would like like.

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