Blog Reflections

One of my best blog posts was the post on Sunday, October 6, 2013 when I was talking about what I had read so far. The blog post is called “So far”. In this blog post I am telling the readers where I am so far in the book. When I posted that I was at chapter 8. In the post I explained what happened in chapters 6 and 7. In this post I also tell what the characters are feeling. This post meets the standards of analysis according to the rubric because I used a specific example from the text. I said,” He saw Katie play with an imaginary ring on her finger and it reminded him of the women when he was at CID.” This shows that I used specific examples from the text. I also inferred in this blog post. I said,” After reading this chapter I infer that Katie will end up telling Alex more about her past.” This shows that I inferred in this blog post. This also shows that I met all the criteria for analysis.

http://saylorsreadingblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/so-far.html

Next trimester my goals for reading are to finish this book, because it is really long and I’m only half way into it. For writing my goals are to write more fluently and more descriptions.  Some areas of improvement I want to work towards next trimester are to become a more consistent reader so that I can become better at understanding texts, use better and more challenging vocabulary and to become better at writing based on the examples I read.

One thing I struggled with during this experience was making sure I read consistently so that I had things to blog about. It’s hard to find time to read because of homework and sports. I overcame this struggle by finding times during the week to read.  Another struggle I had was finding new ways to talk about my book in my bog. I overcame this by getting ideas off of other student’s blogs and referring back to the rubric. A strength I had with blogging was analyzing each chapter. It was really easy to summarize each paragraph. A good example of this is my post on Sunday, September 15, 2013 called “Safe Haven: Chapters 3 and 4”. In this post I did a good job of analyzing the text and I used descriptive details and used good connections.

http://saylorsreadingblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/safe-haven-chapters3-and-4.html