Mrs. Wright's 2019 English IV Blog

I'm setting you free!  For the next blog you will have complete freedom to explore any aspect of your topic that you find interesting. Ideas: Focus on one of the key players in your issue.  A researcher, famous person, victim, etc.   Do a pro/con analysis for one aspect of your issue. Deeply research one aspect of your topic. Read another essay and reflect on the author’s ideas. As always, the blog needs to be 300-500 words and have two correctly cited sources. Remember, you are working towards a research paper, so as you pick a topic think about how it will add to your paper.

This blog is all about personal stories.   Explore how your topic affects individual people or find either a personal story to share in this post.   As always, the post needs to be 300-500 words and include two citations.

One of the most important aspects of research is to understand different sides of an issue. For this blog, you will be reading two essays or articles about your topic and evaluating the author's ideas.  Both of the articles/essays should be from reliable sources and should be long enough to fully develop an idea. This blog post will need to be 300-400 words. Be sure to cite your two articles within the text as well as in a Works Cited section at the bottom of your blog (include the URL in your citation).  You will need to turn in annotated copies of both articles. Ideas for this blog include: research one conflict related to your topic and choose a pro and a con article (http://www.procon.org is a resource) choose one recent article and another from a few years ago and compare how the two authors discuss the issue as it relates to their time/place compare how two authors from different countries/cultures discuss an issue compare how a liberal and a conservative pub...

For this post, you will need to find and interpret data and/or statistics. Do some research on your topic and find a chart or statistic that refers to your question. In the blog, interpret the data and explain the connection to your topic. What lessons can we take away from the statistics? What questions do the statistics generate? Understanding your issue is one of the first steps to writing any type of research paper. Remember that each post must include:  Two properly cited sources (Cite within the text and also in the Works Cited section at the bottom of your blog. Include the url.) 300-500 words An image (In this blog that will probably be a chart.) You are being graded on: The depth of your research (the reader should learn from your blog) Level of professionalism (grammar and spelling, word choice, etc.)

The purpose of your blog is to inform each other. This is important: your audience is the other students in class. You need to carefully select information and present it in interesting ways that will help other students understand and make decisions about their world-- don't waste their time! Also, the information on this blog can be used for your research  report, so be sure to take the time to really research and learn about your issue because it will save you time when you are writing the report. So, what should you write in your first blog? An introduction! Not about you, but about your topic-- tell us: the background information you know about this topic, the current state of affairs for your topic and any future projections about your topic. Your thesis question should include the BIG question you hope to explore and maybe answer during your research this semester. Remember that a BIG question does not have an easy yes or no or factual answer. A BIG questions...

Welcome to the 2019 English IV Blog!  Please confirm that you found this page by listing your topic and 3-5 big idea questions in the comments section.  Also, please post the URL  to your blog so that it will be easy for other students to find you. Once you complete the comments, please add my URL to your reading list so that you will get new updates.