Update and touch up your blog posts

the following is what I expect to find in your blog:

1. Poetry project log + link/ embedded multimodal presentation
   
2. 'A trip to the UK' assessment + link to/ embedded multimodal presentation
3. A blog post about nationality/ stereotypes ( ex.7 p. 222 in Targets)
4. Blog posts on Of Mice and Men ( the author, the usa in the 1930s, reading the book, going to the theater, etc.)
   

Our poetry presentations

Write a blog post where you comment on the multi modal poetry presentation project we're about to wrap up. Do you like this way of working with poetry?Why/ why not? What did you learn from these poetry sessions? Is there anything that could have been done differently either by yourself, your classmates, the teacher? Anything else you want to say?Say it!

Also, if possible, embed or hyperlink your poetry presentation in this blog post.

POETRY - Making a multi modal poetry presentation

Reading, appreciating, understanding, presenting and teaching poetry...and maybe loving it, too?
Introduction to Poetry

Billy Collins - Introduction To Poetry

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

“THE VALUE OF POETRY LIES IN YOUR OWN RESPONSE – YOUR PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE POEM IS THE MOST IMPORTANT”

“I’M NOT FEELING VERY WELL. I CAN ONLY WRITE PROSE TODAY” W.B.YEATS

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Today is our last work session on Of Mice and Men. I suggest you do the following:

1. Finish questions in book , hand them in either electronically or on paper, preferrably both..)If you haven't done many of the tasks by now, find a classmate and talk your way through them( in English, of course!)Make sure you tell me if you choose this way of working with the questions.
2. Write a blog entry , a report about the play from yesterday. How will you compare that experience to reading the book, watching the film?
3. Check out the Of Mice and Men 'fagstoff' folder. There are several quizzes and revision websites that are quite good. I suggest you start with the BBC one.
4. I will pick out one or two groups of 6 students to discuss the book/ the film/ the play with me. Will find another room for that purpose.

Tasks Wednesday January 28

Today you are to write two new entries in your blog.

1. Write an entry about the author of the novel. You find information about him in the introductory section of the book..and on the web, of course.
2. Find information about the USA in the 1930 - The Great Depression. Write an entry about what you've found out.
3. Check out the blogs of two of the classmates sitting next to you right now. Write a comment to one of the entries in their blogs. Only positive and relevant comments accepted!

Tomorrow we'll discuss the book and watch the film.

Of Mice and Men

I have added all your blog addresses to the list on the left hand side. Copy them and paste them into your own blogs.I that way you can easily access your classmates'blogs. I am looking forward to reading your entries on Of Mice and Men:-)