Deadline: Friday, October 19th @ 11:59 pm
Prepare your Google document: PDF
- Read and address all of the comments in your document. Once you have made all of the revisions you will make, “Resolve” all of the comments in your Google Document.
- Make sure the paragraphs are in block style: one space between each, no indents.
- Check each hyperlink to make sure the word and the linked website have a meaningful connection.
- At the top of your page, create an original title for your essay. Use 12 point font and center it.
- At the top left of the Google Doc window, change the title of your document to your first name, last initial, Personal Essay Final: Sally P Personal Essay Final
- Proofread.
- STOP AND THINK! Is this essay something that you are comfortable sharing with the world or does it share too much personal information about me or my family?
- If you’re sharing it:
- File: Publish to the web…
- Check the box next to “Automatically Republish When Changes are Made”
- “Start Publishing”
- Copy “Document Link” and close
- Continue following directions at step 10.
- If you’re not:
- Make sure the document is shared with Ms. Johnson
- Continue following directions at step 10.
- Login to your blog and create a new post. In this post you will reflect on your experience writing the personal essay and specific details of the essay itself. In at least one long paragraph, respond to the following questions in first person. (The questions do not need to be answered in order. Do not include the actual question in your post, only your response to them.)
- What is the big idea in your essay and why is it important to you and to readers?
- What does your essay say about who you are today? How does it say this?
- Describe your experience engaging in the writing process. Did feedback from other people help you? How? Did you work independently?
- How confident are you that the final product is a success? How do you know?
- What specific aspect of your essay is the most successful? What do you like about it?
*Create a new post for this reflection, with an original title (not your essay title). Remember to introduce your Personal Essay to the reader using its original title. Hyperlink your Google Document to the title. Categories: Personal Identity & Choose your own Tags. Submit for publication and turn in your rubric to Ms. Johnson.
When you finish, begin your Reader’s Profile
Writing About Reading
We begin each week with a learning target that states “Students will engage in independent reading.” There are many intangible things that characterize “engage” ; writing takes the emotional and intellectual experiences and brings them into the community of readers that we are growing into as a class.
Writing about reading requires a specific mindset. We have to pay attention to what the writer is doing with the tools he or she has and we have to keep track of the effect that those choices have on us as readers, as human beings. These to facets are the core of your writing.
Reader’s Profile: This is something you’ve seen before. This is a broad view of reading in your life, but it is still focused on the details that make the reading experience you describe unique to your attitude and lifestyle.
DEADLINE: Post as sub-page (or parent-page if you were not a blogger last year), with 5 external hyperlinks (one of them to your Goodreads profile) by 11:59pm MONDAY, OCT 29th.
Independent Reading: Your Goodreads account is very much an extension of your reader’s profile. In fact, it is the proof of or the acting out of what you describe in your reader’s profile. As we approach the end of the quarter and an evaluation of your independent reading, remember who you are. Show that to the reading community by writing about those intangibles. More importantly, do so in an academic way that shows you are paying attention to yourself and the world around you.
FIRST: Start by posting a one paragraph summary of your reader’s profile to the “about me” section of your Goodreads profile.
SECOND: Let’s look at a great example of how to write about reading on Goodreads: Blindness. We will deconstruct this together and generate a list of ways to represent our reading experience.
THIRD: Write about your reading. Write a book review.
Blog Comments: In order to be fully integrated into the world of bloggers, it is essential to be both a writer (which you already are) and a reader. Because the nature of blogging is social, this is yet another way to think about writing about reading. We understand that bloggers put personal stories, values, intellect, and questions into their writing. The “commenting” practice asks readers to respond, personally (and academically) to their writing. It is a conversation.
FIRST: Read the How To… comment.
SECOND: Look to your classmates blogs for their personal essays, and comment using the guidelines and your own personality to engage.
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