Homework and Blogging

Homework and Blogging

Revised blogging assignment:

Rather than each student (1)writing a blog post and (2, 3) two comments each week, we will work on a schedule to alternate assignments.

(1) On the Course Blog, students will write a 200-300-word blog post according to the circulated schedule.

(2) During the weeks when they do not write a blog post, students will write a 100-150-word comment in response to one post or comment.

(3) Each week, every student will write an entry in our shared glossary. We will use the Docs on our Course Profile to collaborate on this glossary, each adding at least one entry per week. Words can include technical terms in the study of poetry, such as from our textbook, words you didn’t know when reading, or words you knew but needed to understand better in the context of the poem, or even words from our class discussions, others’ blog posts or comments, or course documents. I will also include in the glossary words for which you can complete the entry, rather than choosing your own word. For each entry, you will include:

1. the word,
2. its part of speech (eg, noun, adjective, verb)
3. the most appropriate definition–not necessarily the first one
4. the source of the definition
5. the context of the word (eg, the poem title and line from our reading, the textbook section and page, or the discussion or course document date and subject)
6. your explanation of the connotation of the word in that context
7. your initials (to get credit for your work)