Directions for the Blog Update/Review
Today’s class will be devoted to updating your blog, reviewing your classmates’ sites, and planning for the final reflection that you will compose in class on Wednesday. Devote the first half of class to updating your blog and reviewing your classmates’ sites. In the second half of the class, you will not be permitted to use your laptops, tablets, or phones. That time will be devoted to planning for your final reflection.
To update your blog, complete the check list below and make any necessary changes to your site.
- All three of my major essay assignments (my literacy narrative, my analysis, and my final essay and annotated bibliography) are published on my blog.
- My final essay and annotated bibliography assignment is the top post on my blog (followed by my analysis and my literacy narrative).
- All three of the blog posts for my major essay assignments include an image that documents part of my writing process away from the screen.
- All three of the blog posts for my major essay assignments include an embedded link to a relevant website.
- I have corrected any errors of spelling, punctuation, grammar, mechanics, and style in my blog posts.
After you have updated your blog, devote the remainder of the first half of class to reviewing your classmates’ sites. You are encouraged, but not required, to type brief comments and/or like your classmates’ posts.
Directions for Planning Your Reflection
Review your class handouts and journal entries and determine what you consider your most significant work and the feature or features of the course that have benefited your development as a writer and a student. Features to consider include the following:
- Planning, drafting, and revising your final essay and annotated bibliography. Since you recently composed a reflection on this assignment, it should not be the main focus of your final reflection.
- Keeping a journal
- Delivering your group presentation on one of the lessons in the Check, Please! course
- Studying one of the readings examined in the second half of the semester, including “The Case for Writing Longhand,” “Skim Reading is the New Normal,” “Strawberry Spring,” the excerpt from On Writing, or the sample final essay and annotated bibliography.
- Writing for an online audience beyond the classroom/creating and maintaining a WordPress blog
- Collaborating with your classmates on in-class writing assignments
- Playing Scrabble/Collaborating with your teammates on Wordplay Day
- Writing longhand
- Limiting screen time
You may focus on two, three, or four features of the course (but no more than four).
After you determine what features of the course you will address, select a minimum of one relevant quotation to integrate into your reflection. The quotation you include may be one from Writing Analytically or a relevant quotation from one of the texts that we have studied in the second half of the semester.
Next Up
In class on Wednesday, you will compose your final refelection for the course.
Jane Lucas 