Welcome to Third Tri!

Hello, students!  Welcome to your Honors English IB class and your second trimester of blogging.  We have a few changes this trimester in regards to blogging, which can be found on the sheet provided in class.  As an overview, you are required to write one solid, detailed blog post per week and comment on two other students' blogs (again, detailed, thoughtful comments).  We are also going to provide you with  multiple blog post topics, so you should never say, "I don't have anything to blog about."

Since today is the first blogging day of the new tri, you have a couple of tasks with your blog:

 1)  On my blog page, you need to click on "Enter your blog information here" located on the right-hand side near the top.

2) Enter your blog information.  (To do this you need to log in to Google, go to Blogger, and click VIEW BLOG).  Your URL is what you see in the top window.  It should NOT look like this:
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8841072407200182#editor/target=post;postID=9509676772139
If your URL has the word "blogger" in it, you are in edit mode.  Your URL should look something like this:
http://brossclassroomz323.blogspot.com/
Enter the information and your class period.

3)  Log in to Goodreads.  Enter what book you are currently reading and update the page number.  Also, update your reading goal if needed.  (You may still be working on your reading goal from last trimester, and that is okay.  But if you exceeded it, please set a new one).

4) Friend Mrs. Bross in Goodreads.  To do this, click on the drop-down arrow to the right of your name.  Select "Friends."  Then,  on the right-hand side go to "find by name or email."  Type in "Mandi Bross."  I am the only person with that name on Goodreads, so it should be fairly easy to find me.  Friend a few other people in the class as well.  I can't WAIT to see your updates.

5) Your final task: write a new post!  Your topic idea can come from the handout provided to you today in class.  Or, you can tell me what your favorite book was from last trimester and why you liked it so much (you could even make it like a book review for your peers).  Aim for a solid two paragraphs and show me that you can do at least one of the following: insert a hyperlink to a webpage, article, etc.; insert a video; or insert a picture.

Once you have accomplished all of the following, I would like you to spend the rest of the class time exploring Goodreads, especially checking out your recommendations and adding books to your "Want to read" list.  If you don't have recommendations yet, spend some time going back and rating books you've read in the past so you can get recommendations.