The Reflection Blog
During
our study of the text In Cold Blood students
will be required to make one post per week to an online reflection blog. Think of the blog as an opportunity to have an
ongoing conversation about the text. Each
week there will be new quotations from the text posted to the blog. Your task is to interpret, react, support and
disagree with the ideas. You’re not
simply restating facts from the text but instead you are justifying your
positions and reacting to the ideas of
your peers. Be sure that the
points you’re making are clearly explained and developed; this will encourage a
challenging conversation and open up the possibility for debate on various interpretations
of the text. The first posting will be
done in class as a group but after the first post students will be responsible
for posting on their own time unless otherwise specified.
Each
entry should include:
q Your first and last name
q The quote number
q The names of any students to whom
you are responding.
q A page number should be included
for any additional direct quotes posted to the blog.
q The date and time of your entry
should be automatically recorded.
*** You
will not get ANY credit without this information. ***
Quotation
# 1: “I can’t imagine you afraid. No matter what happened, you’d talk your way
out of it” (36).
Sample
Blog Response
To me, Quotation #1 seems like foreshadowing. Mr.
Clutter is described as "fearless" by Mrs. Ashida. This quality will
show up later I'm sure. Fearlessness seems like a good quality to have when a
gun is pointed at your head or at the head of one of your family members.
Sample
Blog Response
I feel that when Mr. Asiba says that she couldn't
imagine Mr. Clutter being afraid and that he is fealess. But really every
father and man will come off as fearless becuase he knows everyone looks to him
for support in a bad situation, which i agree with corey as being foreshadowing
in the way that maybe he will be looked to for answers and he may possibly not
have any in the moments before his family is murdered.
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