Blogging Assignment

Picking your beat (5 point grade) Due: ___________

Choose a beat or subject area – it must pertain to something happening at the school.
The teacher has to approve it.

Writing Assignment (15 points) Due: Every Time a Show Airs

 Write a blog post
 Length – 300 – 400 words
 Picture(s) – include at least one picture in each post (either taken by you or from
a search engine about your topic)
 Title – something fun that would get peoples’ attention
 Format – type your blog in a word document before copying and pasting it into
Blogger (This will help with spelling errors)
 Audience – students and faculty at Luverne School

How I will grade it:

Criteria: 5 points 3 points 1 point
Content/Originality Content is Content is Content is
complete, accurate, incomplete, incomplete,
relevant, and offers irrelevant, and/or irrelevant, and
new ideas. Meets contains contains
the 300 – 400 word inaccuracies. Little inaccuracies. No
length. evidence of going effort made to go
beyond regularly beyond everyday
understood content. content.
Writing Quality Writing is crisp and Writing is generally It is hard to know
and Style clear. The writer unclear. Meaning is what the writer is
incorporates the ambiguous. Many trying to express.
active voice and (5+) spelling, Writing is
supports ideas with grammar, or complicated.
examples. No punctuation errors Misspelled words,
spelling, grammar, are made. incorrect grammar,
or punctuation and improper
errors are made. The style is either punctuation are
too academic, or too evident.
The style is patronizing for the
engaging and audience. The style is
appropriate for the inappropriate for the
post. post.
Visual Appeal Very visually Pictures are either No pictures or
appealing, relevant irrelevant or not irrelevant pictures.
pictures for the post. appealing.
Total: /15 points
Responding to Classmates (5 points) Due: The Wednesday after Submitting
After blogging, you will each respond to one classmate. This response should be
between 100 – 200 words. The response should show that you read your classmates
post and are trying to spur on the conversation.

Criteria 5 points 3 points 1 point

Classmate Response engages Response seems Response is not
Response the content of the off point from the about content of the
post. Shows respect content of the post. post. Is not
for classmate, even Does not show respectful of the
if disagreeing with respect for author. author. Contains
post. Contains no Contains a few many (5+) spelling,
spelling, grammar, spelling, grammar, grammar, or
or punctuation or punctuation punctuation errors.
errors. errors.
Total: /5 points