Looking For Alaska Post #1

Choose one of these topics and respond in a new blog post (make sure it's titled Looking For Alaska Blog Post 1):

1. How is distance/separation used in the novel?

2. Who is Alaska - is Pudge describing her accurately?

3. Why is the Colonel obsessed with loyalty?  Why does he take the fall when they get caught smoking?

4. What does Alaska mean when she says "Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia"?  Do you ever think that life would just be better if...?

5. What does the Colonel and Sara's relationship say about them?  What does their breakup say about them?

6. What question would you choose if you had to take Dr. Hyde's final? (What is the most important question human beings must answer?)

In your post, write the question out as the first thing and put it in italics. Then answer the question.

When you finish, click "Publish." You have 20 minutes.

Make a video in Photo Booth!

It should be between 90 seconds and 2 minutes.

When you're done, open your Google Drive screen.

Upload the video:

• Click on the upload button (next to Create)
• Find the file (go to the bottom of the left hand column and choose "movies" - the SECOND Movies one).
• Click Upload
• When it's finished, click Share
• Share with tmi@tmiclass.com
• When it's shared, you should see it show up in my email!!!

Blog Post 1 (American Lit 1st & 4th)

Write a blog post about (any or all of these questions):

• How is college different from high school?
• How are the classes different?
• What are you expected to know and be able to do in college?
• What do professors expect from you academically?
• What specific writing, reading or thinking skills should you have for college?
• What is reading like in college? What's a typical reading load?
• What is research like in college?  What do you have to know and be able to do?

Write your response based on the research you did, or if you didn't do research, based on the ideas already in your head.  Feel free to collaborate if you want to, so long as you write your own post.

When you're finished, click Publish.  After you hit publish, click on the View Blog button at the top of the screen.  Finally, send an email to tmi@tmiclass.com with the address from that View Blog screen (you can also click "View" under your post title if that's available).  You can also choose to share it through Google Plus by adding tmi@tmiclass.com to the Share line.