Go Big or Go Home: September 13, 2019

Focus: What do we really want to explore this year?

1. Warming up with big, big questions: List of possibilities

2. Exploring two sample Big Question Blogs:

Mike's Sample Blog

Mara's Sample Blog

3. Checking out www.blogger.com and setting up your own blogs

• Please make sure give yourself a unique blog title that includes your first name.

• Include your big question in the header.

• E-mail me your blog address (it ends with "blogspot.com") as soon as you have one.

4. Creating your first big blog post using The Odyssey

• Bring in specific lines / highly specific scenes. Strangely, to "go big" you have to first "go small."

HW:

1. For MONDAY: Finish your "best draft so far" of your college essay to turn in by 4:00 pm on Monday. Please use this checklist (hard copy given in class and sent to you via Remind).

2. For TUESDAY:

• Finish your Big Question Blog post if if you did not finish in class.

• We will have a timed writing on The Odyssey this day. You may not use your book.

• Please bring your copy of The Odyssey to turn in.

3. For NEXT FRIDAY (SEP 20): Complete your final poetry response 

(4. Suggested, but not required: Start reading East of Eden.)