Monday, November 9th

Hi, MS students,

We're slowly getting our blogs up and going.  Just a reminder about what we're trying to do.  Please make sure that, by tomorrow, you've added the following to your blog:

1. two news items, summarized by a precis, along with at least one photo per news story. (Remember that the stories could be in the world of sports, the arts, politics, something big that's happened internationally or nationally).
   
2. A widget
3. All classroom followers
4. Our blog list of fellow students

Today, we're going to work on a chain story.  You may have done something like this before in your English class somewhere during your elementary or middle school education.  You will write one descriptive line of text.  It must contain a noun, a verb, at least one adjective, at least one adverb.  After you write your line, you will visit your classmates' blogs and add a line of text to theirs.  In the end each of you should have a story of 10 sentences.  You will then end of the story with a sentence.  So your participation for your own story will be 2 sentences.

Each story must have a beginning, a middle and an end.  Each story must have a setting.  Please remember: setting tells us, the reader, about where and when the story is taking place.

Once the stories are done, you are going to practice recording your story (with a partner, if you wish) using Audacity.  We'll then add some appropriate music to it, any effects that might be good, and then we'll publish the podcast to your blog.