Begin Discussing your Novel

2.  Today you will begin blogging about your independent reading.

HELPFUL HINTS:

Adhere to the qualities of good writing at all times, and attempt to write level four answers (as indicated on the performance chart we used to assess "Bread" by M. Atwood questions).

If you wish to achieve a level four on this assessment, you must include the following details in EACH blog post.

1. Proper identification of the novel you are writing about (you can do this through an image; at the very least provide the title and author; an MLA style citation is preferred). Remember that book titles are to be written in italics.

2. Proper use of language conventions (punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence structure).

3. Organized responses (topic sentence, body, closing sentence).

4. Use of the text as support for your ideas (direct quotations with proper MLA style citations are preferred over summaries).

5. Short responses (between 60-100 wds).

One of the skills you will need to use this year is correctly formatting citations using the format described by the MLA guide. Go to the page titles MLA Help!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR POST:

1. In the first part of your blog post, identify three qualities you expect from a 'good book'.

2. Describe whether the book(s) you have read so far has/have contained those three qualities you listed in the first part of your blog post.

3. Use the proper MLA style to identify the book(s) you described in 2.  (You are welcome to include more than one book here) but be sure to alphabetize by author.

Here is an example of MLA format for the book Catching Fire.  Notice, the second line is indented NOT the first!

Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic
          Press. 2009. Print.