Writing a

Blog
Prepared by:
Nikki Joy C. Garcia, LPT
Do you recognize
the girl in photo?
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She is 12 years old
named
Anne Frank, a
German-born Jew.
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What do you know
about her?
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In 1942, while hiding
from the German
Nazis in Amsterdam,
Netherlands. Anne
Frank wrote the
following entry in her
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diary.
October 9th 1942: ”Today I have nothing but
dismal and depressing news to report. Our
many Jewish friends and acquaintances are
being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is
treating them very roughly and transporting
them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp
in Drenthe to which they’re sending all the
Jews. Miep told us about someone who’d
managed to escape from there. It must be
terrible in Westerbork.

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October 9th 1942: The people get almost nothing
to eat, much less to drink, as water is available
only one hour a day, and there’s only one toilet
and sink for several thousand people. Men and
women sleep in the same room, and women and
children often have their heads shaved. Escape
is almost impossible; many people look Jewish,
and they’re branded by their shorn heads. If it’s
that bad in Holland, what must it be like in
those faraway and uncivilized places where the
Germans are sending them?
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October 9th 1942: We assume that most of them
are being murdered. The English radio says
they’re being gassed. Perhaps that’s the
quickest way to die. I feel terrible. Miep’s
accounts of these horrors are so heartrending…
Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans,
and to think I’m actually one of them! No, that’s
not true, Hitler took away our nationality long
ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies
on earth than the Germans and Jews.”

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 THE DIARY OF THE YOUNG GIRL
ACTIVITY
Instructions: Answer the following questions about the
Anne Frank’s diary entry.
1. Comment on the way the diary entry was organized.
2. How is this diary entry the same or different from
another piece of writing such as an explanation
essay?
3. Make a list of all the adjectives and adverbs that you
find in the diary entry.
4. What does these words reveal about the emotional
state of the writer?
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Anne Frank
From handwritten entries on a piece
of paper or notebook, diaries in
contemporary
1 time.
Online Journals
which are called
“blogs”
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The term “Blog” was first used in the 1990s.
It is short version of “weblog” or an individualized
piece of written work found on the web.
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The term “Blog” was first used in the 1990s.
It is short version of “weblog” or an individualized
piece of written work found on the web.
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Denotative Meaning of “Blog”
Noun
1. A website containing a writer’s
or group of writer’s own
experiences, observations,
opinions. Etc.
2. A single entry or post on such as
website.

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Denotative Meaning of “Blog”
Verb (used without object),
blogged, blogging

3. To maintain or add new entries to

a blog.

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Denotative Meaning of “Blog”
Verb (used with object), blogged,
blogging

4. To express or write about on

blog.

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Denotative Meaning of “Blog”
Noun
1. A website containing a
writer’s or group of writer’s own
experiences, observations,
opinions. Etc.

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 Viewpoint
Personal and Subjective
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Bloggers
must present
personal
issues that
would
interest the
general
public. 20
Blogs are
more
concerned
with
communi-
cating a
message. 21
Rather than,
simply
expressing or
documenting
an idea or
emotion. 22
 HOW TO CREATE A BLOG?
Go to wikihow.com and look up the step by step instructions.

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Writing Task
▪ Write a blog on any topic of your choice. Decide first on
your purpose for creating the blog. You may choose from
any of the following reasons for blogging.
▪ To entertain
▪ To inform
▪ To instruct
▪ To persuade
Writing Task
▪ The blog must be at least 500 words long and includes at
least three images and three links to other websites.
▪ Your blog will marked using the following rubric.
▪ Blogging conventions 15 points
▪ Content 15 points
▪ Organization 10 points
▪ Language and Mechanics 10 points
▪ Total of 50 points
Writing Task
▪ Submission of entry
▪ September 10, 2019