Your writing is already improving, and hopefully, you are making the posts as personal and enjoyable as possible.

• Free post
• Use your TV analysis worksheet to write a post analyzing your British TV episode. Make a claim and support it with evidence. Draw conclusions.
• 2 comments, one on each type of post

**Penalties for last minute posts this week, and anything posted on Monday will not be counted. 

• Listening Post- View the video above in which Julian Treasure claims that in this busy world “we are losing our listening” and gives ways to recapture those listening skills. Choose one of his ways, practice it for at least two days, and then write a blog post reflecting on both Mr. Treasure’s ideas and your own experience practicing one of his strategies.
• Free Post
• 2 comments

ALSO:

1. Please revisit the blogging instructions. Now that you’ve been doing them for a while, you might better understand the requirements.
2. Video on how to fix your blog grades if there is a problem
3. Bookmark my blog if you haven’t already. Check there every week for instructions about posts. You do not have a choice among posts. You must do all that is instructed in the weekly post, which will usually be two posts and two comments.
4. Video about why we blog and why you have to do it like I ask you to

Photo Credit: By Micahd (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

• Free Post
• Respond to the poetry reading by Naomi Shihab Nye on Thursday. Choose your own framework for response, but it should reflect good reading and analysis.
• 2 comments

Reminders:

• Writing these on the Monday they’re due is LATE. Write Mon-Sun of the week prior.
• Write thoroughly.
• Use Grammarly/Proofread
• Go beyond minimums– experiment with your writing
• Posts are 2 paragraphs.
• Comments are 2 sentences.
• Fix your time zone in settings so that your posts aren’t appearing to be late.

If you have not cleaned up your blog or fixed previous issues such as comments, please check out this screencast

Screencast on how to moderate comments and add menus

(Photo: Creative Commons: Flickr/seanb)

• Do throughout the week
• Work on trying to make your posts interesting to readers.
• Read and respond to all kinds of posts, not just free posts.
• Ask for help

This week:

• Free post
• Feedback reflection- In ONE paragraph, respond to/reflect on specific feedback you’ve been given so far (on all assignments). Do you notice patterns? Make a plan for improvement or continued progress.
• No comments

Notes on previous:

FOLLOW DIRECTIONS!