All Star Mentor Blogs + Upcoming blog post due

For our Quarter 2 Cycle 2 blog post, be sure to use your synthesis page as an outline of sorts to guide your writing process. A few things to remember:

• Take your ideas out of the text, especially in your opening and closing paragraphs! This will make your work so much more interesting for your reader. 

• Create an INTERESTING title that will attract readers. "Reading Response 12/18" is boring.  Think of yourself as a headline writer for a newspaper.   

• You should be commenting on your partner's work.  Be specific and encouraging! Last cycle's all star commenter is Steven in 806! 

• Check out the mentors that Ms. Warren and Ms. DePalma  referenced in class for additional guidance. 

These writers did a great job writing a fiction blog post.  Check out a mentor or two from your class to see what you can emulate in your own writing.

Class 803 

Claire
Leela
Zoe
Leonardo
Matt

Class 806

Michael
Najal
Zachary

Class 809

Rithika
Maxine
Angela
Josef
Zunayed

All Star Synthesis Pages: Quarter 2 Reading Cycle 1

These synthesis pages look great! What they all have in common is that there is a space on their page that takes their ideas out of the text and into the world, making their ideas relevant and extra thought-provoking.  Try this out on your next page.  Here are a few sentence starters that might help you get there...

a. What I learned about __________ was...

b. I realized that sometimes in life...

c. Reading this books really made me think about...

Then, those statements can become great CLAIMS for your blog post. 

Go, readers, go!

All Star Mentor "Reading the World" Synthesis Pages!

Amazing Nonfiction Blog Mentors!

Check out these great examples of non fiction blog posts! They are organized, consider the author's craft, and thought-provoking!

Lizzie

Augie

Waniso

Ava R.

Marley

Sadie

Sophia L. 

Amazing Writing in the 116 Blogosphere! All Star Mentors!

I was inspired by so many writers in classes 803, 806, and 812!

You should check them out, too, and strive to be one of our next All-Star Mentors:

Sophia's writing is thought provoking and passionate! I look forward to each post and have been loving her writing challenge work!

Zarrin is another writer who makes me think more deeply.  I really appreciate the way she looks at the world!

This post from Maeve was one of the most thought-provoking I've read all year!

I loved how Julia looked at multiple texts to think about how women and girls are portrayed in the media!

All Star Mentors!

I was so impressed as I read through your blogs over the past few weeks! I am seeing so much improvement and so much passion for reading! Here are some posts that really blew me away. You should definitely check them out (no matter what class you're in) and leave them a comment for this week!

These "Am I Blue?" responses were so impressive and beautifully written:

Annabel (806)

Ruby (806-she also included an image I loved)

Sophie N. (809)

Sophie D. (809)

Adrian (809)

These posts about independent reading books were not only written well, but so thought provoking:

Sam (803)

Caitlin (803)

These posts about independent reading books were written in a way that generated thinking and comments: 

Chase (806)

Venice (806)