Blogging Portfolio, December 10th

So the first semester is almost done, and it is time to do a little review on the blogs I have written this quarter. They have been classified in 5 different sections, where I have selected the ones I really enjoyed writing and portrayed my best work. Hope you enjoy and feel free to comment. 

1. Coverage:

Here are the links to all the blogs I was assigned this quarter.

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/10/silence-is-power.html

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/11/barbie-real-life-stories.html

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/11/struggle-for-equality-feminism.html

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/11/commentary-on-extract-from-handmaids.html

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/11/in-beauty-myth-naomi-wolf-describes-how.html

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-fiction-works.html

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/11/post-apocalyptic-world.html

2. Depth:

This category will lead you to two blogs I was assigned this quarter. I have chosen these two blogs because I think they show a depth of discussion and analysis. I really enjoyed writing about these topics and in both entries I made a link to two art pieces, the first one to ‘Guernica’ by modern artist Pablo Picasso, and the second one to a friend’s art work for Visual Arts.

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/11/post-apocalyptic-world.html

This entry is a response to McCarthy’s post apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’, in which I discuss how McCarthy conveys this post apocalyptic world throughout the novel through the use of diction and imagery.

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/11/barbie-real-life-stories.html

This second entry is a response to two feminist articles we read for the course, about modern Barbies and Teen Magazines.

3. Interaction

4. Discussion

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/11/commentary-on-extract-from-handmaids.html

My commentary on The Handmaid’s Tale received a couple of responses by my classmates, where they both agreed and expanded my ideas, apart from posting some personal ones they had. Although not made explicit in the blog, their responses made me realize how there are several ways to interpret an extract and how novelists are extremely talented by portraying all their ideas in various manners.

5. Xenoblogging

http://iloveenglishmorethananyone.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/love-necessity-in-the-lives-of-women/#comments

This section includes a response I made to Julie’s commentary writing on an extract from Margaret Atwood novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. I used this opportunity to present to her some of the ideas I had and how she described them in her commentary, but perhaps needed an expansion. I hope she took my ideas in a positive way!

6. Wildcard:

http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/12/iop.html

This entry is a response to the IB’s Internal Oral Presentation. After completing two Presentations, I felt the need to reflect a little bit on the challenges it imposed me and how effective it was to my learning.