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Hello, my fellow classmates! Welcome to my first blog of the second marking period. Today we got two new assignments posted to the classroom page. The first assignment is to be done on our own time due in class by November 30th. This assignment is to take our theme(s) that we made up from Ready Player One Level One, and write two to three paragraphs with textual evidence explaining how the theme has developed throughout the novel. The second assignment is one that will be done in class on November 30th. So, classmates, make sure you are keeping up with your reading and working on the assignments.

Today in class we continued working on our analyses of the film reviews  we found yesterday with our groups. My group personally read a review of The Hangover, which we found to be a pretty effective review. Each group was instructed to create percentages for the following categories of the reviews :

Crediting relevant artists

Providing necessary context

Summarizing plot

Evaluating content

Evaluating theme

Concluding

In addition to these, we had to say the total word count of our articles. The word counts and percentages varied greatly from group to group. Some articles had shorter articles and some had very long articles.

What we did today can relate to the world at large because reviews are everywhere. Nowadays, pretty much anybody can be a critic of almost anything, with films included. However, if someone wants to have any credibility they should know how to write an informative review of whatever they are writing about. To write a good review, it would be very helpful for the critics to know the parts that were listed above.