my advice to you...

Blog Comment 1: Brandon Blewett
Brandon, I think you did a really good job explainig your stengths and weaknesses you had in your first quarter blog. I can really relate to how you felt about your grade because I was also disappointed with mine. I like how you pointed out what mistakes you made that you would make sure not to make this semester.Dont lose your enthusiasm on blogging due to your bad grade. I beleive in you and that you have the ability to bring your grade up this quarter to satisfy you. This quarter really focus on paying attention to the blog prompts and understanding what is being asked of you in the particular blog post. If your asked to create an overview instead of summarize specific sybmols themes make sure you try to do so. I know your capable of getting a better grade on your blog so dont give up Brandon!

Blog Comment 2: Abbie Weil
Abbie Jean, you did a very good job voicing your opinion about spark notes. Shame on you for ever in your life using it!! Ahem.. but of course something has to be there to dumb it down for you since im not :) Just kidding!  Also, I agree with you a hundred percert about not really understanding or seeing the different emotions that are shown in the book if you use spark notes for your book as a substition for reading it! If you like the book your reading right now, then you shouldnt feel the need to use spark notes. Anyways,I read this book and I loved it. How do you like it so far? Are you getting into it? I got so into it i couldnt put it down!!I think next time you should really think of a tittle for your blog. Well ttyl!

Blog Comment 3: Macie Wheeler
Macie, thank you for complimenting on my blog! I also believed you did really well on your first quarter blog. I understood you really liked you book so I continued to read your blog and I am actually reading your book now! I love it so far! My favorite book out of Willow and the previous book I read is Please Ignore Vera Dietz. How do you like the book? Which is your favorite so far? I'm very excited to start following the other school and I do believe it will get me more interested in blogging, what do you think?

Beginning of Blog #2, Reflection!

     Now I'm going to begin blogging for the second time. First quarter my blog grade wasn't the best or what i expected to get but I had never done it before so it's all a learning experience. Recieving feedback will help me improve my blog for this quarter so I can do better than i did before and Im hoping to recieve a better grade. Aftrer recieving my blog grade I understand the mistakes I made and what my strong and weak points were. Some of my strong points were the links I used along with the descriptions I wrote and the two paragraphs I wrote for my classical music piece, they were very lengthy and described why i chose the piece I did. My weak points were my animoto and my picture blog. I made the same mistake for both of them. For the picture blog I created of more plot summaries instead of showing inportant symbols and settings. For the animoto I gave a summary instead of getting readers intrigued by my book.

     I still really enjoy blogging and I personally want to continue with this project for the rest of the year. I will not let my first quarter grade let me get discouraged for this quarter. I'm still going to try my best and learn off of my mistakes from first quarter in order to improve this blog. So far I have really enjoyed reading my second book. Its called Willow and it has a really interesting story line. Its about a girl who killed her parents in a car accident and continuously thinks of herself as a murdered. She constantly feels pressure to make herself suffer through as much pain as everyone else. Right now im not very far in the book and but I know that she will eventually use love as a way to cope with he troubles. I really like how we are given a little more freedom for this quarter blog, I believe it will help me improve my grade with the allowance to take this blog into my own direction.

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