Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. — Jesse Lee Bennett
TASK ONE: Before you begin blogging, take a look at the "Get Your Blog On!!" list in the sidebar to your right which will link you to a number of blogs written by and for teens about books and reading.
Click around...see what blogs are out there, what their purpose is and how they look and then come back to this page to continue with TASK TWO instructions!!!
TASK TWO: Click on the page found in the toolbar above this post entitled "Introduction to Blogging" to begin your journey into the blogging world.
Today we will begin blogging. Watch this video about the joy of books . . . THINK ABOUT:Do you see any of your childhood favourites depicted on the shelves? What is it about reading that you love, appreciate, hope for, experience, fear etc...???
BLOG POST #1: INSTRUCTIONS: Find a quote on the internet that displays well how you feel about about books or reading. Once you have found a perfect quotation that represents your feelings about books or reading, make it the "description" of YOUR blog (**give credit to the author of the quote as well as I have done on the class blog).
NOTE: To add your quotation as your Blog's description, click on the blogger icon found at the top left corner of your blog. From this page scroll down to click on settings'. Here you can come up with a creative "Blog Title" and add the quotation you choseas -your "Blog description".
THEN as your first blog post explain why you selected the quote you did. Make a personal connection to the quote and what it will tell your blog fans about you and your relationship to reading. Be sure to include the quote itself as well as the author's name and a link to the source you borrowed it from. NOTE: to embed a link (as above) you can use the Link icon found on your toolbar at the top of your New Post window or you can simply copy and paste a link (as in the example below).
Here is an example of a good response:
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." - Mortimer Adler SOURCE: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/22395.Mortimer_J_Adler I do not read books as if it's a competition to see who can get to the end the fastest. It doesn't even have to be books, they can be articles, myths or anything that is written. You can read something quickly countless times but still know nothing of what it is saying. Instead, why don't you take a few extra moments, read it slower, then you take in all of what the words are saying to you and then later you don't keep having to flip back to the text saying: I read this in this part, but what did it say? Then you have to spend more time on it. I know people who race through many books a week and enjoy them, but then you ask them what it meant, they don't know. Some people are okay with not knowing exactly what the book was trying to convey, but that's not me. I would rather read one book and take it apart word for word. If I don't do that, then I don't see a point. Books are written to serve a purpose. If books don't tell you something or if they don't give you that feeling that hits you deep down, then it's not the author's fault, it's yours. So search for it. And let the meaning get through you.
