Blog Topic – The Books of My Life

Assignment:  Model your blog post after the People Magazine format as seen on the attached handout.  Consider your life and the books that have shaped it up to now.  Create a post which captures your life in books.  Choose your entries from the following list of topics or develop your own. Include visuals.  Post must include 5-7 books and your explanations for each.

Topics:

Favorite Childhood Book

Book that Inspired Me

Book that Made Me Cry

Book that Made Me Laugh

Coming of Age Story

Favorite Beach Read

Character that I Identify With

Favorite Book that went to the Screen

Celeb or Historical Memoir I Admire

Favorite Book Read for School

Top Book on my Must Read List

Book I Recommend to Friends

(You come up with a topic)

Readers’ Choice

Blog Assignment

You have three class periods in which to work on your blog. By next Wednesday, your blog should contain

5 blog posts.  Your blog should have 2 blog posts currently.  So you will be writing 3 new ones.  The topics are your choosing.  There is a list below of possible topics. Each post should be viewed as a mini essay so that your blog is multiple paragraphs rather than just a couple of sentences in length.

Also, you will need to make 3 responses to the blogs of some of your classmates. On Monday, we will give you the names of three classmates on whose blogs you will be asked to post responses to their posts. You can make these posts during Tuesday’s class.

Possible topics--

Summer reading

Books vs ebooks

Out of Comfort Zone

Books and films

Books as Friends

The Power of Choice

Book Quotations

       Example --" There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away."

Genres

Favorite author(s)

Literary/ Reading journey

Why I love to read

Why I hate to read

Need more ideas – look around on the book blogs

101 ideas http://booknympho.com/2012/08/27/101-non-review-book-blog-post-ideas/

15 topics- http://estellasrevenge.blogspot.com/2014/01/15-topics-for-your-blogging-blues_22.html

Welcome and first post topic

Welcome to our class blog.  You will be able to use this blog as a source for your posts and as a portal to access your classmates blogs.


Post #1 --  Introduce yourself as a reader.  What are your likes/dislikes? What are your thoughts on reading?  Why should someone be interested in reading your blog?  What new insights might you have to offer?

Picture suggestion:  post book covers of some of your favorite or least favorite book

Happy blogging.