Reflect on Blog Post
One thing I really struggled with in my experience of blogging was finding good textual evidence to support my answers. I struggled with this because I didn't really know what good evidence would support my answers. How I worked through this struggle was I just found maybe two or three pieces of evidence and then I would pick about two of the three pieces of evidence I would find and use that for my answer to support it. Another thing I had trouble doing a lot was using good reads. Also I really didn't comment on peoples blogs that much. One strength I had blogging was finding the conflict like man vs. man, man vs. society, etc.My best blog is here http://masontsblog1.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-theme-of-bad-boy-is-that-do-not-let_17.html. I thought this blog was my best blog over all the other ones because in this blog I explained the theme of the book which was Bad Boy by Dream Jordan and I thought I explained it very well. For example I gave the theme of the book in one sentence following that with about two to three quotes for why I think this is the theme and then I explained why the quotes I chose prove that this was the theme for the book. I also talked about how one of the characters in the book changed a lot. What I did was I stated how the character changed and then I did the same thing I put two to three quotes in my blog supporting how it changed following by how the quotes that I chose show how the character has changed.
Some goals that I have for the next trimester for reading is to improve citing textual evidence to support my answers better. Also I want to be able to finish more books. Then I want to not all the time write about my independent reading book but also write about some news articles I read etc. And I want to use good reads more next trimester and comment on more peoples blogs as well. For writing goals I want to improve on writing imagery in my pieces better. Also I really think I need to work on using semicolons and commas in certain sentences. Finally I want to work on my evidence for the readers to figure out what the theme is of my piece.
