Week 5A - The Briggsy Awards

Before I get into this week's prompt (which is also your FINAL blog prompt of the semester!), I wanted to remind you guys of a few things for when I grade the blogs this weekend:

• These are due by noon on Sunday.
• Each entry must be at least 100 words to be given full credit.
• I am not grading these for spelling, punctuation, grammar, or capitalization. I'll I'm looking for is to see that you've followed the prompts, written the required length, and occasionally entertained me! 
• These are summative in the informative writing strand.

Now, for today's prompt:

Pick the annual Briggsy Awards for the 2017 Fall Semester of English 2. Come up with a winner for each of the following categories and provide a short explanation for why you chose each one:

• Most Interesting Part of This Class:
• Most Boring/Useless Part of This Class:
• The Hardest You Laughed In This Class:
• Thing That I Learned That Will Be Most Useful to Know in the Real World:
• Best Thing About Brigs as a teacher:
• Thing Brigs Could do to Make This Class Better For Future Classes:

Week 4A - Must-See TV

You have been tasked to pitch a television show. Write about your show would be, explaining what it's about, where it will be set, what kinds of characters will be in the show, and what kinds of actors it will star. Is it comedy? Drama? Horror? Reality? Spin-off?

Writing with Technology Reflection

Instead of writing a new blog today, I would like you to complete the following survey reflecting on your experience doing the speeches with technology rather than note cards. Click the link below to begin.

Technology Survey

When you finish, you can spend the rest of the time making up missing blogs or working on your book roundup (or any other makeup work you that you may still owe).

Week 3A - Dollar Dollar Bills Y'all!

If you were given $5,000,000 to blow on whatever you wanted, what would you spend it on? As you make your list, make sure you included approximate amounts of money that you've spent so you don't go overboard. Have fun, and spend wisely!

Week 2A - If I Were A...

Write about as few or as many of these as you like, but at least pick one! And remember to write at least 100 words!

If I were a superhero, I would be... (why?)

If I were a type of food, I would be... (why?)

If I were a color, I would be... (why?)

If I were a type of music, I would be... (why?)

If I were a car, I would be... (why?)

Week 1A - Celebrity Crushes

Today begins our second batch of blogs. We're starting all the way over; this is a brand new summative assessment, starting today. There will be eight more entries (I hope) and 20 more comments assigned over the course of the next two months. Each entry still needs to be 100 words.

Other than that, you guys know the drill by now. Onto this week's prompt:

Make a list of three of your celebrity crushes and explain to me what makes them so wonderful in your eyes. Do you think you could ever actually be in a relationship with this person, or is it just the kind of thing where you think they’re attractive? Pictures are optional, but obviously preferable.

Week 8 - 3 Wishes

Before we get to this week's post, this first batch of blogs is due SUNDAY at noon. I have decided that I am going to put them in the informative writing content strand, and that I am NOT going to grade them for grammar and mechanics. Here's what I'm looking for in terms of the rubric:

4 - The blogs are exceptional in their creativity, narrative voice, and use of technology.
3 - The blogs are all completed, and the prompts all have been answered in a way that is interesting and descriptive.
2 - The blogs are all or mostly completed, but they either are too short or do not respond to the prompt in a way that is interesting or descriptive.
1 - The majority of the blogs have not been completed.

Also important to remember is that I can't grade your blogs if I don't have your URL. If it says I'm missing it on the right-hand side of this page, you need to get it to me ASAP today!

Onto the prompt:

If you had three wishes, what would you wish for? Aladdin rules apply; you can't wish for more wishes, you can't wish anyone dead, you can't wish to be a god, and you can't make anyone all in love with you. Those stipulations aside, what are you wishing for?