Blogs Entry #4/Columns

This week we began to write feature style "columns" in which you can express your opinions on topics that are political, cultural, or personal. Humor, wit, and/or passion are encouraged.

Today finish your column article and we will share them 8th period.

Also, continue to work on your personal blog--add design elements, new posts, etc.
BE SURE TO VISIT AND COMMENT ON OTHER BLOGS.

You should have 4 BLOG ENTRIES: 3 were assigned topics
Blog ENTRY #$--topic of your choice

Blog Question of the Day #3

Tom Tancredo this weekend was the keynote speaker at the Tea Party convention. He suggested that we should reinstate literacy for voters, especially for voters who "cannot spell the word vote or say it in English" and who elected "Barack Hussein Obama." Do you believe that Tancredo seriously wanted to return to the voter literacy
tests that many states in the South used to discriminate against black voters and prevent them from voting. Should there be literacy tests for the right to vote in America? Or does democracy mean "one person, one vote"?

Do research online about this incident. Put in the keywords that will get you information for an "informed" blog entry.

THEN:

Take this Alabama State Literacy test. Would you be able to vote?

kpearson.project.tcnj.edu/interactive/imm_files/test.html

Blog Question of the Day

continue work on your blog.

Here is the blog question of the day:

In 2001 The American Scholar published an excerpt from a talk given by English author Margaret Drabble. In the talk, Drabble claimed that "Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts." Using evidence from your reading, history, observation, personal experience, politics, etc., respond to this claim in your blog.


Read these blogs:
chrisguillebeau.com

lhammack.blogspot.com/2009/10/conformity.html

www.usthemblog.com/2008/03/whats-so-bad-ab.html

Blog Question of the Day--Using the R-Word

Please read the following articles and blog entries. Then respond to your readings on your own blog. These articles are about White House aide Rahm Emmanuel using the R-word (retard).

Check out the news article on aol.com

Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic
aandrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/palin-emanuel-pot-kettle.html

Jane Hamscher, FireDogLake

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/02/03/when-is-rahm-going-to-apologize-to-moveon/

PLEASE BE SURE YOUR BLOG IS CONNECTED TO THIS BLOG--MAKE SURE YOU ARE A FOLLOWER OF THIS BLOG

Blogging/Finish Magazine articles

Blogging:

This marking period you will be working on new media--including blogging and podcasting.

If you already have a personal blog, that's great. Be sure that you are a follower of this page and that we can access your blog. Or create a new one just for this project.

If you do not have a blog, you will be creating one.

Here is a link to find out how to do this.


Your blogs should be focused on culture, news, or the world through a creative writer's eyes. I will be giving you specific topics to comment on through this unit. What I do not want you to do is use this opportunity to publish to the world merely personal comments that have no relevance to a larger audience--this is not myspace or Facebook. This is an aspect of new media---a personal kind of JOURNALISM.