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What is a blog?
A blog is a discussion or informational website published on the internet consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries.
Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.
Requirements:
Write 3-5 blog posts from the perspective of your character about the Macbeth theme.
When you write your blog posts keep in mind that your Audience will read them.
When blogging about Macbeth, the examples of your theme from the end of the play should be "displayed" first and posts about the beginning of the play would be listed last.
At least 5 relevant, essential quotes or paraphrases from the text(s) to support an analysis of a specific theme.
Use of evidence is advanced and accounts for the complexities of the theme.
Evidence goes beyond what was explicitly taught in class.
All evidence (quotes and paraphrases) are accurately cited.
See details below.
Writing a Blog Post
Use FIRST PERSON: I, me, we, us, etc.
The blog post MUST NOT be a summary or a retelling of the play or events in the book, but a careful commentary (opinion) about the way things are. It is important to figure out what “you” think first. In other words, what to think about the theme and how has it affects you and others. Then find events/passages in the book that “you” can point to for examples, reasons, and evidence.
This opinion is to be backed up by citing the play; however, you will not use a typical citation method (MLA, for example). Instead, because you are writing as a character, you are writing as a first person observer and the “proof” for what you think comes from your observations and interactions: what you see and hear. Three to four direct references to the play are required. See more below about references.
Each blog post should be about 300-400 words in length, broken into logical paragraphs.
There are two ways to make references to the play:
Refer directly to an event that occurs. This event must be something that your character logically could have witnessed or been a part of. For example, you might say, One day in social studies class, Mr. Neck started a debate. Well, that’s at least what he called it.
Use a character's words. Continuing with my example above, I could “quote” Mr. Neck this way. Yea. A debate. Well, in a debate there are two sides, but Mr. Neck actually said “I decide who talks in here.”
Put quotation marks around words that characters speak. Be sure you quote them carefully.
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