Blogger of the Week: Book Glog

I enjoyed reading all of your Glogs and seeing the wide-variety of books you read. I would encourage you to look through your classmate's blogs to see the books they read. Perhaps you will be inspired to read a book that one of your classmates read. I would also encourage you to go back and comment on your classmate's blogs.

There were many outstanding Glogs this week to choose from. Here are the Bloggers (or Glogsters?) of the week:

4th Hour
Cody read Knots in My Yo-Yo String
Bailey read To Live Again

5th Hour
Katie read Precious
Justin read The Dragon Heir

7th Hour
Natalie read The Red Pyramid
Tyler W read Trials of Death (I am going to sleep with the light on after seeing this Glog!)

Blogger Award: Snow Day Letter

I was very impressed with your persuasive letters to Dr. Berry. I was primarily looking at three things:

1. Thesis statements - Did you have one that took a side AND included subpoints that previewed your paper?

2. Refutation - Did your second paragraph show the other side of the argument? Addressing the opposition is a key part of a good persuasive essay.

3. Organization - Was your paper organized similar to the models we looked at? Did you follow the paragraph pattern of TS, CD, CM, CD, CM, CS?

For the most part, our organization and refutation was solid. We still need to work on thesis statements.

One thing that many people omitted was discussing the background of the problem. That is something I obviously need to address before our next persuasive writing. Many people had a hook, and then jumped straight to the thesis statement. If I didn't know what you were writing about, I would have been lost understanding the situation without the background of the problem. Assume your audience is clueless about the situation, so you need to fill them in on the background.

Let's get to the winners of this week's Raven Blogger Award:

Andrea uses excellent support and commentary, including ETHOS, to support her argument. (4th Hour)

Katie does an outstanding job of appealing to Dr. Barry's emotions (PATHOS).  (5th Hour)

Braden took some chances on his letter, and it paid off. He uses LOGOS to support his opinion. (7th Hour)

Raven Blogger Award: Outside Reading #1

I hope you all are having a great snow day! I have enjoyed reading your blog posts about your books. I noticed a wide variety of books that you are interested in, which is very cool to see. I just hope you find a book that interests you that you don't want to put down. Like this one:

I finished my first book, and I am now reading The Accidental Billionaires. I wish I could accidentally become a billionaire! It is about how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. Many of you have probably seen The Social Network, which is the movie version of this book. You guys know that I am a techno-geek at heart. Why didn't I think of Facebook? I wonder what Zuckerberg thinks about how he was portrayed in the movie and book...

Frank is also enjoying the book:

Now to our Raven Blogger Award winners for your book post. Congratulations to these winners:

Rachel is reading Burger Wuss, and she did a nice job with her post. Great picture for her rating system! (4th Hour)

Maddie is reading Acceleration. I really like that she noticed the foreshadowing early on in the book. She also has a unique rating system. (5th Hour)

Have you read The Da Vinci Code? If so, you would like Shaun's book Digital Fortress, also written by Dan Brown.  (7th Hour)

I would encourage you to look through your classmate's posts to see what books they are reading. Some of you commented that you were interested in reading a certain book, so please feel free to ask each other questions!

Raven Blogger Award: Snapshots

I really enjoyed reading all of your Snapshot posts and seeing your pictures. Many of them could have been picked for the award, so I chose two from each hour.

I can tell that many of you are working on improving your writing. Remember, you are writing for a global audience, so you always want to put your best foot forward.

Feel free to check out the blogs from your classmates on the right and leave comments!

Here are the winners for this week's award:

This is a very cool and unique 1st person photo by Ryenn from her horse. (4th Hour)

Here is a funny photo of a few of your classmates at an early age! (Nate 4th Hour)

A very well-written post from Katie (5th Hour).

Did you know that Taylor can fly a helicopter? Very cool picture here. (5th Hour)

Hunter has a great family photo and story about his grandpa. (Hunter 7th Hour)

Who knew that Tyler M. could jump this high? Nice ups in this picture! (Tyler M. 7th Hour)

Top Posts: AOW #1

I enjoyed reading all of your pleas to JCCC to readmit Ms. Byrnes back into school after she posted the photo on Facebook. I think some of you have a career as lawyers in your future!

Here are a few of the top posts:

Sean has a solid thesis statement that sets up his argument. (5th Hour)

Allison showed the other side of the argument, admitting that her client had a momentary lapse in judgment. (7th Hour)

Julee uses pathos to appeal to JCCC's emotional side. (4th Hour)