Good morning Fair Students

I hope that you all had a marvelous weekend and that you're ready for another week of marvelous writing. Due today is your assessment of 5 existing blogs. Remember, you need to profile each blog, explain it's content or theme and describe the writing style the author uses.

What's coming up? This week I would like you to select an idea, a problem, a person or even a place that fascinates you and I want you to research it throughout the week. Each day (Tuesday-Friday) I want to see you blog about your discoveries. For example, perhaps you want to pursue your post-secondary options. Then, you would spend a chunk of your time each day looking into different schools, financial aid, the timeline for registration/application, etc. Next, you blog about the experience of looking ahead and embracing the next phase of your life. OR, maybe for you, the idea of Wicca is fascinating or you really want to follow the transition for President-elect Barack Obama. Whatever you choose, be a researcher, a detective, an investigator of all that you can learn and then write about that process. Heck, you could research ways to lose weight, how to gain more friends, a popular artist or even your own geneology. Please reference in each blog the sites and places you have traveled. Were they sound resources?

If you have not done so already (while sitting next to your peers), please begin tracking and reading one another's writing. This week I will give credit for those students who post comments to their peers.

Possible research topics Becky might embark on: sexual literacy, literature circles, how to raise a toddler, the Obama transition or Korean culture and food.