2. Examine your own blog and the gadgets you have selected to display. I would like you to delete the gadgets that distract from the purpose of this blog. (ie. fish, games, advertisements, etc.). This is meant to be a collection of responses about reading and even the gadgets you select should reflect that.
3. Take a few minutes to vote in the poll found below the blog archive in the sidebar to your right (NOTE: you can add a reading poll on your own blog by going to your 'design page' and choosing the 'add a gadget icons').
4. Be sure that before you start your post, you are clear about the expectations. These will always be found on the class blog.
Since the start of the year we have been examining different motifs and patterns developed in ancient stories and how these patterns are duplicated in our contemporary storytelling. These motifs and patterns help us to connect strongly to past and present stories. We will see this week how J.K Rowling connects her knowledge of ancient stories and history with details from her own life to create the fictional world of Harry Potter. The 100+ million readers of the Harry Potter series have certainly shown us that that can be a powerful connection.
This week I want you to write a blog post where you discuss a part of your book that reminds you of something else (a film, another book, a story, a personal experience...etc.). What you are doing is making personal, textual, and/or worldly connections to the novel you are reading.
AS PROCESS:
If you are not familiar with the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, watch this movie trailer:
Then watch this interview with Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief. Listen carefully for insights into the connections he has made to the reality of his own life, and then presented as fiction in his award winning novel.
NOW COMPOSE YOUR POST:
To begin your entry, select a brief quotation (20-30 words) from the section of your book that connects you to some other experience. Be sure that you use "quotation marks" around the direct quotation, and that you provide a proper citation following the quote using the correct format (Author, Title Page) .
In the body of your entry make the connection you have made clear to your readers (max 100 words). Here you are to explain with specific details the type of connection you are making to your novel.
To get you started, think about how you would finish this paragraph: The (character, event, place) reminds me of (a place, a real event, another person/character, another text, a real world situation) in the following ways . . . .
Here is a student sample:
I love multitasking!! This is not the book I last blogged about, but it is equally as good. It is Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. "That's when it happens. The moment of death is full of heat and sound and pain bigger than anything, a funnel of burning heat splitting me in two, something searing and scorching and tearing, and if screaming were a feeling it would be this," (Oliver, 80)
The connection I have made is to the recently filmed movie I Know Who Killed Me with Lindsay Lohan. Don't get me wrong, it was a terrible movie but I found it made a good connection to this book. In this book, a girl name Samantha Kingston has it all, but when it comes to a sudden end in a car crash, weird things happen. She gets to re-live that day and find out what went wrong and who crashed into her car. The same thing happens in the movie. In the movie,someone kills her and she gets a chance to re-live her death and try to turn in her killer. They both have no idea what is going on. They both think they are going through massive periods of deja vu.
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