Blogpost 3- Commenting

For the 3rd blog post, we had to comment on somebodies blog in our group. I chose to comment on Kat's two blog posts. As Kat's blog has a template theme I commented through a blog post on my blog!

Blog post one: First of all, I think it was very nice, when you explained the book, characters and the plot you knew so far. This made it so that one who hadn't heard of The Giver before, would know some background information and understand your thinking and logic better. You could of also explained the Literature Circles process, and what parts of it that you despise specifically-response,questions, passages or even vocabulary. You used quotes to demonstrate the various rituals and standard practices of the community and described them, before explaining what you thought and comparing it to OUR community's practices. I think that your transitions were very smooth but you could of added a bit more to them- this is only if you wanted to- for example: talking about feelings a little and how they affect our life, before launching into a paragraph about the feeling rituals and practices in the community. Great ending, as you added a bit of perspective and reality into the ending by saying that some of the practices and rituals cover up the flaws and hide the fact that the community is anything but perfect!

Blog post two: I think you did great on this blog post. I enjoyed how you put a lot of perspective into this. You were honest and you were yourself. It was very interesting how you talked a bit about the discussions and led into it, instead of just jumping into the discussion questions. Though you could have been able to start with a different introduction, so it would be a little different from blog post one. It was nice how you talked about why or why not you chose a certain question. It was also a very original idea to tie both questions 2 and together, and branched out on each one of them. However, at some point--you said: I don't KNOW why I am so fond of the discussions...I guess I just love to talk! I love hearing other people's opinions and hearING their view of the matter. I capitalized the parts you forgot words in. Other then that, you gave good quotes for support and evidence, as well as mentioning the time, place and discussion that was going on during the quote. You gave many reasons, and was to the point. You talked about war and murder and other bad things in OUR community that could frighten people out of making choices. It was a very interesting blog post and I enjoyed reading it.

Thanks for completing your blog posts on time and very efficiently so that I could comment on it!
Again, Great Job!!

*Cindy*