Reading to Blog
What’s more important the book or our interpretations of the book? Can there be a book without there being interpretation? We’ll be able to answer some of those questions after we’ve recorded the history of our relationships with our books. In order to preserve paper and promote our communication with the academic world outside of CNG, we’ll be keep blogs about the books we read.
You will write you own blogs, and respond to your blogs as prescribed by your weekly homework sheet. You should not approach each blog the same way. With variety comes varied thought; therefore, I propose focusing on different topics and using different approaches in each entry. Here are some possibilities:
- Respond to the text personally
I never had my house blown down by a wolf, but I did have felt loss. For example, I once abandoned my favorite apartment. I left most of my furniture there, some clothes, even a television!
- Connect text to another book, a film, work of art, a comic or any other creation
The Three Little Pigs reminds me of The Matrix. When the Wolf “huffed and puffed and blew his house down” he acted just as Morpheus did for Reeve’s character. Suddenly, Reeves was without the security he once felt.
- Ask questions to later answer
What might the grandmother represent?
Why would the Wolf want to blow down the houses?
How might I write a better ending?
I would then maybe answer these questions in later blogs.
You may use any combination of these, or you can write your own type of entries. Let your reading guide your entries.
You will be assessed using the rubric distributed in class
I look forward to reading and responding to your entries.
82 comments:
I think you are right in saying that we have to analize literature and movies and compare them to our own lives. Not only are they terrific stories, but they are meant to reach you in some way or another. We need to extract from them something that is meaningful and useful to our lives.
The idea of making comments about the books is excellent. The best way to fully undesrtand them is to compare them with real life situations or other books, movies or tv shows.
With this program you can also find comments about similar topics and that makes everything easier to understand.
I think it is noice and interesting to make comments on the books we read and I'm sure its going to be a great help for the books we read.
And plus to me analyzing books has always made me understand them better so I think this is an optimum idea for when reading books
Personally I think opinions on the books we read should be ours but being able to compare and contrast ideas (or opinion) on such book or texts can help us base our opinions better.
I believe that you have a good point asking if there can be a book without it being interpretated. Without an interpretation of a book, the fact of reading it would be meaningless. You read a book because you want to learn something new of the book. So if you dont interpertate it, you would have no new ideas gained from the book.
U ROCK MR.TANGEN!!!!!!!!
Paula Aparicio, English class, 2008
Maria Paola Amezquita M, English 2008!!!
Anna Vagnoni English Class 2008
Laura Padilla english 12
Hii sirr!!!! Natalia Calderon Buraye
hi, this is my blog
Hello Mr. Tangen-Mills, I hope you like the blogs I am going to write, and that we have a great semester.
Waza
I am not a fan of homework on the internet, but I hope it will work.
Juliana Andrade,English class 2008.
Mr. Tangen, my address is wrong, but i'll try to change it later.
Sharing comments about books, and asimilating them to movies, or even other books, is a very interesting idea. I belive this can help us analyze our reading opinions, and compare them to other people comments and points of view, which will make our minds get a more clear critique about what piece of literature we are interested in.
Mr. Tangen...Daniela Cleves
Making a reading blog, I think will be very interesting because each of us has different reactions to what we read and have been exposed to different type of things we can relate to our reading, so it will be interesting to see how others react to the different texts.
In analyzing literature, we should also view the matphor independently to understand what the author wanted to convey before we compare or liken it to other forms of media so we will not dilute the meaning it was meant to have. Once we have a grasp on that we can freely compare and expand our interpretation.
I think it is a great idea. Finally something different and original in one of my classes. Hope it turns out well.
i think that by doing this exercise we are not only learning how to analize a book but we are also learning to teach echother about what we think. plus now days the internet is a tool that every person uses and feels conftable with so by using it as a tool in this class, we are making the assingments and the work a lot more interesting for us!!!
Hey sir... Andres Escobar
Hey Mr. Tangen, i dont kno what happened with the other post i wrote... it doesnt go to my blog... i hope this one does work now
I think this blog system is a great addition to the reading we do for class. It's simple and innovative. Furthermore, we are connected to everyone in class through this system.
Howdy!!!
Joel Dombrower,English class 2008
Well sir to be honest with you, I never thought i was going to have my own blog. Your idea of reading and doing blog entries sound interesting and i think it will help us keep track of what we are reading. I hope we have a great semester together and i know we are going to get along just fine.!!
Making comments and analyzing books has always been our english class main point. However, discussing the book's themes and relating them to
our daily lives is a much more efficient way of criticizing and understand books from different points of view. Hopefully through our blog entries and our dicussions in class I will be able to achieve what I said before.
Interpretation is the basis, of literature, which consists basically of the writers point of view and the meaning each and every one of us gives a piece of literature. In fact the whole magic and mysticism of literature is based on interpretation, without interpretation literature itself is worthless.
Sir, this is my new account. It was impossible to get into my last one, so I did this new one.
Although i have never done this kind of analysis to the book i read, i consider it a very efficient way to keep track of our reading, not only just to check comprehension but to enhance a deeper interpretation of the book. see you next class! Chicho
Sharing our comments of books will not only make us have different views of each book but we will aswell learn how ourclassmates think and it will help us to get to know each other
Susana Toro.. period 3. 2008
I think that making our opinions and discussions about the books more public is an interesting idea since we can see other points that maybe we missed, or have a totally opposite perspectives. I am sure that I while I read the book and the blogs at the same time a lot of doubts will be clarified so I’m looking forward to start this program.
It will be useful to analyze books, so we can be able to find connections and similarities between them and our lives, what will slowly develop appreciation towards them.
Using blogs to discuss the books we will be reading is beneficial, as it will allow us to use and learn about other ways of communication in the web (apart from MySpace, and Facebook...)
I would have to agree with you in this case(after what you have to say about analyzing books in order to enable further and deeper understanding of the book we'll be reading.
Also, I find it very useful to have different examples about what to blogg and how to do it.
As to what I hope to get out of this experience is to gain a comfortable approach to expressing my ideas about literature.
Hi Mr.Tangen
I really like the program that you have preapered for us and also the blog. I have never used a blog for a class but i know that it will be great.
I think that putting comments about the book its very good because we are going to have a process in which more people are going to see it. Maria Camila Jaramillo
carolina alban 12 grade english
I've had many logs for reading before, but never any blogs. I hope this will work out alright and my computer ineptness won't bet too obvious.
Santiago Gonzalez english 12
Isidoro Adatto, English Class, 2008
sir i dont know why my other respond didn't show, i guess this one's working now
Maria Angela Mejia, CNG senior english. Sir, I have completed all my blogs, I just forgot to send you my blog URL.
I still have no idea how to do a blogg, and for your information, I have started the book. I thought what I did was what was expected but your feedback was not helpful. I hope I learn soon because I am not going to fail this class just because I don't know how to blog.
I think it is interesting the fact that you are trying to combine the old stories with the new methods of writing. It will be very interesting to learn about blogs.
Hello sir. . .
Camilo Cano 12
Hi sir,
I think that by analizing books is a very important task for our education. Also knowing what a blog is and writting blogs is very interesting and important. I have seen in this past days that all my family write blogs to each other and im really proud that know I know what it is and that I know how to use them.
Mr. tangen I´ve posted all my blogs, and I´ve made about 3 comments on what my companions have written. I´m sorry for not posting them right, but I have no idea how to do it!
Hey Mr. Tangen, in this one u can now see my name.
Daniel Pelaez, English 12
Hey Mr. Tangent,
This is my blog.
jpvilla12.blogspot.com
Juan Pablo Villa
Christopher Tibble 2008
Felipe Mantilla, English 12,
2008
could you please comment on my blog mr tangen because ife been up to date and I hope you respond to my blogs.
sir, sorry im so late with my blogs but my internet wasnt workign well...today ill post them all up...
Sr.
You have not commented on my blog.
I think the idea of having a blog is very modern and useful. We can communicate easier and daily on our opinipons about texts asssigned in class. Also it is very fun beacause we can se how our classmates think and their opinions.
this is my blog
Mr tangen I cant still published my blogs I dont know what happening I am going to try tomorrow at school to published them.
alain douer english 12... sr. sorry for the tardiness
Hey sir,, finally I could get you to see my blogs, some of the blogs I made onde day because I had them already written in my notebook.
hi sir i finally figured out how this works....carolina
MARIA PAULA SALAZAR/ENGLISH 2008
Sr. Sorry for not having the other blogs. I didn't have internet and while I did, my sister was using the computer for her "tesis" and I'm sorry, but this prevails over the English homework. I did one really long blog for the second part because I don't know if you already failed me on the unwritten blogs.
Hey mr. Tangen, sorry for having posted my comment on the wrong entry.
MARIA PAULA SALAZAR,ENGLISH,2008
mr tangen in sorry for the trdiness on my blogs the thing is I dont know what´s wrong with my internet. I am going to copy paste my blogs again to see if it works if it doesnt I will talk to you tomorrow...again im very sorry I just dont know what the problem is.
Mr. Tangen, I had problems posting my entries but today I was able to show them all to you. They are all in my blog. I’m sorry for taking so long to post them, I just didn’t now how.
lorenza rodriguez
mr tangen this is my blog.
I have made some blogs for you to grade.
Mr. Tangen, my blogspot adress is vanbilderbeek.blogspot.com
Santiago Orduz: sorduz.blogspot.com
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