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Road Trip Work: Blog creation

Creating a blog

1. Pair up; each partner needs a laptop.
2. ONE PARTNER ONLY -- Go to www.blogger.com
3. Create a limited blogger profile (option on right)
4. Decide on your display name
5. Create a new blog (option on upper left)
6. Pick a blog title and blog address. If the blog address is available, great! If not, come up with a new name.
7. Select your template design (you can always change later)

Sharing permissions

Once the blog is created, the partner who created the blog needs to go to SETTINGS --> BASIC --> PERMISSIONS --> BLOG AUTHORS

1. Add your partner's email address.
2. Partner, accept invitation
3. Original creator of blog, change invited partner from AUTHOR to ADMIN
4. Start BLOGGING!


Blogger Basics

Class Discussion
1. Plot recap
2. Compare/contrast the start of chpt 17 to chpt 12.
3. Language of the paragraph -- "They crawled up the slopes ...." (201).
4. What effect does the second Cali story have on the family? Is their resistance to the story evidence of their strength or their ignorance? Is one better than the other?
5. Noah! What is up with that?
6. Ma's insight bottom of 209. What does she share? What does this reveal about her character?