1. Add the class blog address to your READING LIST.
HOW ? There is a way!! What is that way????
A. Get to your dashboard: click on the big orange B in the upper left of your screen.
B. Scroll down to the bottom half where you will see 'READING LIST'.
C. Look for the button that says ADD - click on it and enter the http address for the class blog: http://whatsnovelaboutnovels.blogspot.ca/.
(once you have done this, it will be that much easier to access the instructions on the class blog, as you will only need to go to your own dashboard to get to the class blog.)
2. Finish your first two posts..... get caught up if you are behind. . .
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Now this week's post. . . .
In this week's blog post you will concentrate on the protagonist (main character) in the novel you are currently reading. You will also learn how to embed a video from youtube into your blog post.
Remember to ALWAYS begin your blog post by identifying the text source of your post. You can do this by adding a visual (the book cover: we learned how to do this in the last blog post) or simply writing the book title (in italics) and author's name.
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Write a brief description of the protagonist (main character) in your novel. Follow these three steps to complete your description:
a. Start by finding a direct quotation from your novel that you believe helps to reveal a significant character trait present in your main character. Include a proper MLA style in -text citation following this quotation (Author, Title page#). Here is a link to an interesting list of traits . (NOTE: a direct quotation does not have to be DIALOGUE!!!)
b. In approximately 50-60 words explain specifically what you have learned about the protagonist from this section of the story (relate specifically to the events presented in the selected quotation).
c. Now, based on what you know about your main character, make a prediction about the outcome for this character. What do you think will happen as the plot progresses? Do this in one or two sentences.
NOW....... add the video element.
a. FIND a video on youtube that you feel expresses or extends what you already know about protagonist : the video could represent the character's personality, mood, actions or key characteristics. The video could be a music video, a compilation video set to music, a film excerpt, a poem set to music etc...
b. INTRODUCE why you selected it in one-two sentences (connect in some way to the main character you have just described), then embed the video using the instructions below.
To embed this video into your blog post:
You can click on the "Insert a Video" Button on the toolbar above then follow the instructions given to you .
OR
1. Once you have found the video - COPY the EMBED code (this can be found below the video - you will have to click on SHARE and then EMBED to find the code) it will be long and complicated (it will start like this: < width = "480" height = "385"> param)
2. Go to blog post #3 on YOUR BLOG , click EDIT POST.
3. Click on HTML found in the top left corner of the blog post toolbar, beside the word Compose.
4. Go to the bottom of your blog post and PASTE the embed code into your post. Make sure that you hit the ENTER button after you have pasted the embed code.
5. To check to see if the video has been embedded, click on COMPOSE and then PREVIEW to see it before posting.
Good luck.... help each other, then ask me for help.
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A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES: Note that the second example is missing the final element: the prediction.
STUDENT ONE: William Thornhill in The Secret River by Kate Grenville, and his family are forced out of London, England in 1806. In William Thornhill’s London there is not enough food, not enough warmth, not enough room. ‘In the rooms where William Thornhill grew up, in the last decades of the eighteenth century, no one could move an elbow without hitting the wall or the table or a sister or a brother.’ (Grenville, The Secret River 9). Early in the novel, the family is sent to New South Wales, Australia because of a crime Thornhill commits. He steals wood he is delivering in his small boat to the mainland to try and provide just the essential needs for his ever growing family. "There was a kind of desperation . . . a fury to be warm." (Grenville, The Secret River 12). While on the long, uncomfortable journey across the ocean, he misses his friends and is separated from his wife and children. He has no money, no prospects, but at least his family rejoins him once they reach shore. I predict that he will fight against his feelings of loneliness, but only because he has no other choice.This song "Lonely As You" by the Foo Fighters reveals his feelings of being rejected and down on his luck. Although he doesn't want to, he does blame some of his hardships on the fact that he has to support his family - which grows bigger each year.
NOW....... add the video element.
a. FIND a video on youtube that you feel expresses or extends what you already know about protagonist : the video could represent the character's personality, mood, actions or key characteristics. The video could be a music video, a compilation video set to music, a film excerpt, a poem set to music etc...
b. INTRODUCE why you selected it in one-two sentences (connect in some way to the main character you have just described), then embed the video using the instructions below.
To embed this video into your blog post:
You can click on the "Insert a Video" Button on the toolbar above then follow the instructions given to you .
1. Once you have found the video - COPY the EMBED code (this can be found below the video - you will have to click on SHARE and then EMBED to find the code) it will be long and complicated (it will start like this: < width = "480" height = "385"> param
2. Go to blog post #3 on YOUR BLOG , click EDIT POST.
3. Click on HTML found in the top left corner of the blog post toolbar, beside the word Compose.
4. Go to the bottom of your blog post and PASTE the embed code into your post. Make sure that you hit the ENTER button after you have pasted the embed code.
5. To check to see if the video has been embedded, click on COMPOSE and then PREVIEW to see it before posting.
Good luck.... help each other, then ask me for help.
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A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES: Note that the second example is missing the final element: the prediction.
STUDENT ONE: William Thornhill in The Secret River by Kate Grenville, and his family are forced out of London, England in 1806. In William Thornhill’s London there is not enough food, not enough warmth, not enough room. ‘In the rooms where William Thornhill grew up, in the last decades of the eighteenth century, no one could move an elbow without hitting the wall or the table or a sister or a brother.’ (Grenville, The Secret River 9). Early in the novel, the family is sent to New South Wales, Australia because of a crime Thornhill commits. He steals wood he is delivering in his small boat to the mainland to try and provide just the essential needs for his ever growing family. "There was a kind of desperation . . . a fury to be warm." (Grenville, The Secret River 12). While on the long, uncomfortable journey across the ocean, he misses his friends and is separated from his wife and children. He has no money, no prospects, but at least his family rejoins him once they reach shore. I predict that he will fight against his feelings of loneliness, but only because he has no other choice.This song "Lonely As You" by the Foo Fighters reveals his feelings of being rejected and down on his luck. Although he doesn't want to, he does blame some of his hardships on the fact that he has to support his family - which grows bigger each year.
STUDENT TWO: I am about 5 chapters into The Penelopaid by Margaret Atwood. "I was a kind girl- kinder than Helen, or so I thought. I knew I would have to have something to offer instead of beauty. I was clever, everyone said so- in fact they said it so much that I found it discouraging- but cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had," (Atwood, The Penelopaid 29). I feel as though this describes Penelope very well. She is very aware that she isn't as beautiful and radiant as her cousin Helen, but she has much more inner beauty and she is aware of herself. She isn't self absorbed like her cousin. This video is a poem representing the connection between Penelope and Odysseus when first they meet.
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