Student Blog Responses (Spring Break HW #1)

Student blogs


  Two students who I thought did a particularly good job on their blogs were Joyce's post on comparing Peeta and Gale in The Hunger Games, and Ruby's on It's Kind of a Funny Story. Both of their posts were particularly well written and made very good points that I could relate to.
  I really liked Joyce's post on the comparison of Peeta and Gale from The Hunger Games because it was very well written and it did have some points that i can agree with. For one I am not on any particular "team" in the concept of liking Gale or Peeta, I do think they do have their own differences where there are beneficial traits and not so beneficial traits. I agree with Joyce's points on Peeta. He is very caring and usually puts others before himself, and I think Joyce did a very good job on implying these traits he has. The bad part about these traits is that in his selfless way of life he could put others lives before his and this could lead to his death. On the other hand I did think her points on Gale were true. I always thought of him as a noble and strong person who wanted to be free from the Capitol, she then included how this urge to be free created an act of recklessness that lead to some deaths.
  Ruby's post on It's Kind of a Funny Story was well thought out and greatly written with excellent grammar and vocabulary. She started out by connecting her life experiences to the characters life and choices. She wrote about how she would like to just drop all of her homework and just not do it, accept the zero and move on. She then goes into how that after reading the book that this is what the main character has done and that he didn't turn out to great. He just kept on letting the work build up to the point where it was unfix able. She learned that she will inevitably have to complete the assignments and will continue to have to do them again and again and again. The reason I liked her post was because this is exactly how I feel when I'm doing my work and it can get stressful and repetitive. I for one would just love to drop everything and just have freedom but I know that since I'm going into high school grades are going to start to be very important and I'm going to have to start to take them very seriously.
  After reading these two posts I will start to incorporate the techniques they used more into my blogs. From Ruby's I learned to start talking more about my life in my future posts and to start giving more of my thoughts. From Joyce's I should split up the paragraphs differently in sort of an essay style and to probably to some more comparing of characters and their choices.