Individual Student Blogs & Outside Reading Books

“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. 
• 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.