Kevin Berlin

9/20/16
Blog

In today's class, we started off learning about how to have a good blog. We went over 6 guidelines to keep in mind when writing a blog to make it the best it can be. The 6 guidelines include; adding your personal reaction/ point of view, give detailed description, make connections with your audience, use strong verbs, speak in first person, and add multimedia. After we stopped talking about blogs, we went into our lesson on strengthening our claims and thesis by integrating evidence. Mr. Rivers used one of his previous students introduction about star wars to show us what a good and effective introduction is suppose to look like.

“Despite Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’s superior creation of believable action scenes, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ultimately serves to create a more expansive and believable science fiction story through the interactions between its characters, coupled with its superior use of lighting and colors to assist in characterization.”

We learned that an introduction should include a strong thesis, a claim, at least one active verb, and establishes the topics. For practice at the end of class, we joined our table members and created a thesis about legacy and opportunity. My table wrote something along the lines of legacy is what leads you to success from your opportunities and motivation. Mr. Rivers then advised us to start our pre-writing for our upcoming “success summative” that will be written during class on Thursday.