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Classroom Blogging ExamplesLife of a Hobo: Interdisciplinary Blogging Activity (Middle School, High School)This creative writing/historical simulation activity calls on students to research the plight of homeless teenagers during the Great Depression and then create their own fictionalized account of a day in the life of a hobo. I-Search Literature Project: Reflective Journaling (High School)The I-Search is an independent literature research project where students keep a daily log of their interactions with the works and authors they are researching. Role-Playing: What Would You Bring to Walden? (High School)This role-playing activity was designed by a teacher who had only been blogging with his students for about two weeks! In this activity, teacher Chris Bagg shows his American Literature students the list of items that Henry David Thoreau brought with him to Walden Pond, and he then asks them to compile their own lists. The student work that emerges is a delightful combination of the insightful and the hilarious. 9/11: Are We Safer Five Years Later?” (High School)Tom gave this blogging assignment on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which coincided with the first week of school.
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