Ms.Robbins
Audrey Bachman
Just Go With It
Audrey seems like someone who is really creative. At least her blog post is. She didn't just do a typical three paragraph blog post, she really used good writing craft and wrote her post in a purposeful, creative way. She wrote a blog post in response to a poem, and made good observations, good inferences and good conclusions about the poem, and they were all paragraphs that were...extravagant... and made you go through a little thinking adventure in your head. She wrote like a little memoir before analyzing the poem and it was just so powerful, I never stopped reading I promise. Even though this kind of blog post is so original and different, it's one of the most amazing one's I have read yet, and it might be risky for me to do this because I'm not as creative as Audrey, but one day when I feel like changing the mood a little in my blog, I will most definitely turn to Audrey's writing for ideas.
Ms.Rear
Teddy Ostrow
Bye Bye Dad
I'm not a big Harry Potter nut, I mean I love watching the movies, but that's about as much I'm dedicated to the series, however, Teddy's blog post on the books really got to me and made me think a lot about Harry Potter. He basically took his feelings about his dad leaving to go take care of his grandma in Connecticut, and made a connection to a detail in the book. I'm guessing that when he read about how Harry Potter's parents are dead, it brought out feelings about himself not seeing his dad for a while. He put those feelings on his blog, and in this way made his posts deeper, and really showed us what Teddy was thinking. After he made the connection to his book, he wrote another great paragraph on his thoughts on orphans, and what he thinks they go through, which gave his audience a different perspective and the ability to think about a topic they probably don't think about everyday. Then, he wrote a paragraph, on memories he would keep of him and his dad, which was just plain old sweet, and made me appreciate sitting down at the dinner table with my whole family. I really enjoyed just the whole post in general because it was different then what I am used too. It wasn't the typical blog post, in this one...I really got to the writers head. On top of this all, it was great format, good paragraphs and good editing. I can proudly say I was on Teddy Ostrow's blog and read a piece of his writing.
Ms.Rear
Anabel Polin
A Fraction of the Whole…Still
First things first, man did Anabel go above the meeting standards blog post. She wrote five real solid paragraphs, and I never got bored from reading her post. I think Anabel's post on her book A Fraction of the Whole is a really good example of a star mentor blog post. She has great capitalization, spelling, purposeful paragraphs, and good format to use. She first tells you what the book is, gives you context, and then gives you her theory, everything my E.L.A teacher, Ms. Robbins taught us to do. When she wrote the context of the book, she wrote it in a quick brief way, which is something I really need to learn to do. In her theory, I thought it was really cool that she didn't just focus on the theme of the whole book, but she tried to unpack a character in the book with small details she noticed about them. She didn't even unpack the main character, she unpacked a character on the side, which is something I really want to try. Also, as I was reading, I really felt like she was talking to me because she had so much personality put into it, which made her writing more interesting, and her thoughts seem more realistic. It's just definitely a blog post everyone can learn from.
I wrote about you in my mentors! :)
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