Individual Student Blogs & Your Outside Reading Book

“In a world….”

A blog trailer for your book….

Think of this assignment as a kind of movie trailer for your book, except instead of making a video, you must use your own words and whatever pictures and links you find that will give your readers hints about the plot, the characters, and/or the content of your book.  Don’t just use the back cover—craft this yourself.  Show me enough so that I know you read your book, but don’t give everything away—you can even put in some teasers.  Set it up to entice your peers to pick up the book themselves.   Be creative & have fun with it! 

Instead of doing this as a comment to my blog, you are first going to create your own blog.  I will show you how using Blogger.  As the author of your own blog, you can be very creative with the set-up as well as the use of pictures, videos, and music.  After we do this assignment you are going to use this blog for the rest of the year for future assignments.

**Note, if there is a movie version of your book, don’t use anything from it.  Make this about your experience with reading the book.

A good blog post will…

• Use language that is clear and creative and provokes interest and a desire to read the book.
• Highlight and describe important characters, key scenes or other significant parts of the book.
• Provide just enough detail to give evidence of reading but also set up teasers so that readers will want to examine the book themselves.
• Include relevant and meaningful images, music, and other links (perhaps even interactive ones) to enhance the depiction of the events, characters, ideas, symbols, and other content from the book.  Be sure to place these things in
• Avoid using the book’s back cover or ready-made descriptions or trailers authored by other people—things that would take away from YOUR creativity and crafting of ideas.
   

Below put a link to the blog you created today in the comment box.  Make sure your blog is open to the public so we can all see what you came up with.