Week 3 - My Animal

Which animal do you think you resemble most closely? Consider quiet, retiring animals like mice; bold and fearless ones like lions; eager, friendly ones like dogs; and finicky, secret ones like cats. Consider your appearence, your personality, and the way you move. Then write about the animal with which you feel a kinship, explaining how you are similar in personality, characteristics, and/or physical features.

Try and be creative with this. The more creative an animal you can come up with, the better!

Also, this week you need to include either a picture (or a link to a picture) of the animal you've chosen. You can do that by working with options on your toolbar when you create a new post. If you have any problems with this, raise your hand and I'll do what I can to help you!

Week 2 - Travel Anywhere

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?  What about this location is appealing?  What would you do there?  Would you want friends and family to go with you or would this be a trip you would prefer to take alone?

Week 1 - A Special Meeting

The word "blog" is short for "web log," which is essentially an online journal. Each of you should have your own individual website set up by the end of the day that you can use to write whatever you want. The point of these blogs every Friday is not for me to grade you on punctuation, spelling, grammar, and things like that, but to let you just write for fun with no strings attached. Plus, ya know, you get to play around on the computer.

In general, these are the guidelines for doing blogs this semester:

1. First and foremost, you need to email me the URL (web address) of your blog website as soon as it is created. It will be http://__________.blogspot.com/. My email address is joel.brigham@olympia.org. Please send that to me before you do anything else!
2. Each blog entry needs to be at least 100 words long.
3. While comments are not required, I'd like you to comment on everybody else's blog at least once over the course of the semester.
4. This blog project is a SUMMATIVE assessment that will be dumped into the Informative Writing bucket in Skyward at two different times this semester.

Okay, on to this week's writing prompt:

If you could meet anyone, dead or alive, who would it be? consider scientists, entertainers, world leaders, artists, writers, people in your family, and so on. Then, make a list of questions you'd like to ask this person when you meet him or her.