- Choose a topic of debate that interests you, offer your opinion/argument, and be sure to link back to the specific article.
- Suggest a topic that should be debated (and provide reasons why), blog about it, the questions that should be asked, your opinion (if you have one), and email the forum your ideas.
- Choose an article that interests you, blog about the 3 steps of your close reading experience.
- Slice of Life - http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/challenges/
- What it is: a story about a small segment of one’s day or a poem that tells about a small moment in time.
- The challenge: “If I dismiss the ordinary--waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen--I may just miss my life.” - Dani Shapiro in Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (2013,123)
- Book Review
- Blog about a book that you are currently reading or that you’ve recently finished.
- Metacognition
- Blog about what you know about what you know. ;-P In other words, reflect on and blog about your progress in my class. Are you growing and learning in reading, writing, speaking, listening, etc.? Are you inspired and motivated? If not, why so? Be nice! :)
Stay tuned for more suggestions throughout the year that are more specific to what is currently happening in our classroom!
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