You will be reading at least one other person’s research-based short story to help you understand what is going on in the world today.  When you are done reading, you will comment on their story following the commenting guidelines found through the link at the top of the page.  Along with those more general comments, you need to answer this question: How did their story help you to understand the human experience in another part of the world?

Your comments are due on Friday.  You can comment on one other person’s story by Friday for additional credit as well.

Commenting Collaborators:

Cavin, Jon S., and Charlie

Trevor, Jackson,  and Mason

Heather and McKayla

Aidan and Brody

Kate and Sadye

Chase and Sarah C.

Connor and Isaiah

Isabelle and Ryan

Molly and Sarah D.

Dawson, Issac, and Johnny E.

Jordan and Will

Noah and Aaron

Luke and Tiffany

Jacob and Logan

Lexi and Keegan

Jonathan and Hanne

Sam and Cashton

Blake and Carson

Cody, Cate, and Alexis

 

All of the work that has gone into the perspective stories has really increased the knowledge of all of us.  However, you know have a whole lot more knowledge of certain events than others.  When it comes to your story, you know exactly what you want your readers to see because of what you saw during the research process.  What I’d like you to do now is help your audience see your story by adding images, video clips, etc. to your story.  These images or videos can be from your research, or things that you find now.

As you add the media, you need to put them on the page near where the image would be the most useful to the readers.

For example, if your story starts with a description refugees from an attack, you would have an image of that either before or after the paragraph with the information.  You may also want to add a caption (to help people understand what they are to gain from the image).

 

Or, if your character is arriving home, and you want to make sure people know what a home in this area is like, add a picture after your description.

 

 

If you have videos that connect to certain parts of your story, add those in as well (in a place where they will most help your readers).

At a minimum, you want three images/videos added to your story.

Once you have added your media (making sure the pictures are where they should be in the story to be the most helpful, and that they have captions explaining the picture with detail), you need to read your commenting collaborator’s post and comment on it.  Make sure to follow the commenting guidelines.  If you read through and they don’t have images, check back before you post a comment to see their full post.  Also, if your collaborator doesn’t have a story up, read and comment on someone else’s.

“After January 15th, girls must not go to school. Otherwise, the guardians and schools will be responsible.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The Taliban had just issued a warning on the radio in Swat Valley that left me mesmerized.

“Papa!” I yelled across the small house my family calls home. My father came racing into the dirty living room with a puzzling look on his face.

“What is it Malala? What happened?”

“The Taliban,” I began as tears filled my eyes, “They just issued a statement that said girls aren’t allowed to go to school anymore.”  After I spoke, I could see the anguish and the fear overtaking his expression. He opened his arms and I ran into them, and he held me lovingly as he spoke gently.

“It will all be okay Malala. Surely the Pakistani Army has heard about this and plans to overtake the Taliban.”

Copy and Paste the first few paragraphs of your story to your blog as your post for today.  Try to post no more than three solid paragraphs (if you have started with dialogue, it won’t be solid paragraphs, but that’s ok, just try to not post the first third of your story).  If you haven’t written that yet, get to writing and then copy and paste your story into a blog post as soon as you can.

Here are the commenting collaborators (the other person whose blog you will be commenting on):

1st block:

Cavin and Cody

Trevor and Blake

Aidan and Sam

Kate and Johnny

Chase and Lexi

Connor and Jacob

Isabelle and Luke

Molly, Heather, and Noah

Dawson and Jordan

4th block:

Charlie and Jon

Mason and Alexis

McKayla and Isaac

Brody and Cate

Sadye and Cashton

Sarah C. and Hanne

Isaiah and Jackson

Ryan and Logan

Sarah D. and Aaron

Will, Johnny, and Tiffany

Keegan and Carson