Blogging

The instructions for the blog are very specific yet give a lot of room for expanding and creativity in our blogs. The instructions are instructing us to get into the books that we read and get deep with the reading so that as we write our blogs we show an understanding for the text. Through blogging we are showing how in-depth we got with the text or how serious we took the reading. Just like how on Friday we were reading the blogs from other people, you can tell whether a person actually read the text and then just wrote the blog but then you can actually tell the people that took the text and read the words and interacted with it and wrote out of their heart how the text impacted them. Every time we interact with text in class is a new way that we can get perspective on the text and interact with it. The activities that we do in this class are very different and out of the box ways to interact with the text which makes you understand things in a different light with different senses even. We are applying what we are learning through how we are learning to relate to the text and then living it out with every text that we read as time goes on.

Blogging extends the reading process by us reading the text and then lingering more in the thought of what we read because now we are relaying the information on our blogs and "speaking' in a sense, about what we read. It's like the morning that we went to the cafeteria for breakfast and we discussed a book that changed our lives and what it meant to us. This is a new way to interact with the text because we are telling people about the text and how it impacted our thinking and way of life sometimes. When we blog it's like telling others about the text that we just read and what we thought about it and how it changed the way we thought about something or the way we view the text that we were reading. This blogging project for me has been a new way to discuss the literature that we have been reading. I don't sit around and talk about the literature that I read very often, it's more like in passing I talk to people and tell them to read something that I've read before. Literary discussion is definitely something new for me so this blogging has really helped me to process the readings that we do and then either summarizes what I got out of it or just to figure out what I did get out of it and relay that to other people through this blog. I like the idea of blogging my interaction with the text because then as I type the words I can realize "O wow that's what I thought I read but actually it affected me in this way." Blogging has opened my eyes up a little more to the actual importance of literature and what a big role it really does play in our society. Before movies, before technology, before all that, literature has been something that has been with us for multiple years and it's something that many people have taken in but it's something that in our society we take for granite now-a-days and we must stop. We must stop our busy schedules and sit and read some of the great literature to let it wreck our lives and change our outlook on life.