Topic 3

Your Topic 3 posting should answer these  questions:

1. How could blogging be used to enhance learning in your high school classes?
2. Tell us about two of the characters in the book that you are reading for your book trailer. What do they look like?  What kind of personality characteristics do they have?  Do they have any problems?  Would you be friends with them if they went to PHS?  
3. What about the setting of the book.  Where does it take place: in the country, the city, a high school? What is the time frame: in the present, the past, the future?  Describe one scene in the book so that we can get a feel for the setting and time.

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1.) Blogging can give students a professional and easily accessible way to share information with each other as well as discuss information that may seem confusing. 

2.)  Ishmael Beah and Junior are both important characters in my book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Ishmael and Junior are both 12 years old, mildly malnourished, and always tired because of them having to always be on the move. Ishmael and Junior might be hard to befriend because of our completely different upbringing's and that i'm pretty sure both of them are in their 30's right now. 

3.) The book takes place in the west African country of Sierra Leone,  during the 1990 Sierra Leoneian civil war. A particularly powerful scene in the book is when Ishmael and his friends are captured by a group of militants attacking a village and are forced to watch one rebel berate and threaten an 80 year old village elder for trying to escape the village and see his grand children. The book is very heart wrenching and fast paced but it is a good read because it shows how important hope is.