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Blogging Guidelines

This is your opportunity to be as honest as you want about the texts that I am assigning to you, and to offer your thoughts in a more casual, informal way than you will in your graded papers.  Your blog entry can be whatever length you want, but it should be at least paragraph.  I’m especially interested in getting your first impression, your gut reaction to the work you are responding to.  The stronger your opinion the better.  Do you love the book?  Do you hate it?  Why?   Is it exciting, boring, beautiful, pointless, riveting, demoralizing, inspiring, or just proof that your professor wants to torture you?  What works about the text?  What doesn’t?  Do you feel any sympathy for the characters, or do you find them loathsome?  Would you like them to be your friends or would you run from any room that they were in?    Whatever thoughts you have—put them down.  And feel free to take advantage of the multimedia capacity of the blog.  If an image, a gif, a song, etc. helps to capture how you feel about the work, then use it.

 

You are also required to respond twice to other students’ blog entries.  In your response you should say whether you agree with the blog entry and why.

 

Please sign up below.  (You should put your name down once on the blog sign-up sheet and twice on the response sign-up sheet)

Sign up to blog (Sign up to post a blog entry by putting your name next to one of the dates below.  Do not sign up for a particular date if there are already two names next to it):

February 1:

February 6:

February 8: Heamant Dasrat

February 13:

February 15: Nicole Astudillo

February 22: Elaine Farah

February 27: Katherine Hernandez

March 1: Christina Ramos

March 6: Jane Ooi, Jonathan Safdie

March 8: Montip (Zena) Leesin,

March 13: Peter Gambino

March 15: Sabrina Rodriguez, Paul Marinos

March 20:Kevin Rayzvikh, Tiquan Ewell (Tre)

March 22: Bridget Jandovitz, Mariam M.

March 27: Raechel Mastroff, Laurel Labryn

March 29: Dana Peck, Atiyana Ringling

April 10: Benjamin Leibowitz, Sara Khan

April 12: Ada Gorodetskiy, Anastasia Koptieva

April 17: Maxim Ibadov, Carina Amann

April 19: Filip Tabak

April 24: Eloïse Albert, Tiquan Ewell

April 26: Brittney Molloy, Jessica Horowitz

May 3: Skyelar Lee, Karen Carino

May 8: Edwin Jean-Baptiste

May 10: Khanh Ngo (Kelly), Anna Movchan

 

Sign up to respond to someone else’s blog entry.  (Put your name next to two dates below.  Do not sign up for a date if there are already four names next to it):

February 1:

February 6:

February 8:

February 13: Brittney Molloy, Heamant Dasrat

February 15: Atiyana Ringling, Peter Gambino

February 22: Raechel Mastroff, Edwin Jean-Baptiste

February 27: Maxim Ibadov, Tiquan Ewell,

March 1: Jane Ooi,you Bridget Jandovitz, Zena Leesin

March 6: Sabrina Rodriguez, Zena Leesin,

March 8: Karen Carino, Jessica Horowitz

March 13: Skyelar Lee, Elaine Farah, Ada Gorodetskiy

March 15: Jane Ooi, Atiyana Ringlin, Anna Movchan

March 20: Brittney Molloy, Laurel Labryn, Carina Amann, Anna Movchan

March 22: Nicole Astudillo, Khanh Ngo (Kelly), Paul Marinos

March 27: Skyelar Lee, Nicole Astudillo, Peter Gambino, Sara Khan

March 29: Eloïse Albaret, Heamant Dasrat, Sara Khan, Jessica Horowitz

April 10: Dana Peck, Sabrina Rodriguez, Filip Tabak

April 12: Bridget Jandovitz, Christina Ramos, Filip Tabak

April 17: Benjamin Leibowitz, Edwin Jean-Baptiste, Paul Marinos

April 19: Raechel Mastroff, Khanh Ngo (Kelly).

April 24: Maxim Ibadov, Ada Gorodetskiy

April 26: Dana Peck, Elaine Farah, Carina Amann,

May 3: Eloïse Albaret, Christina Ramos

May 8: Anastasia Koptieva, Jonathan Safdie, Karen Carino, Anna Movchan

May 10: Anastasia Koptieva, Jonathan Safdie

May 15? Sorry a little late; Kevin Rayzvikh

 

 

 

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