The art of Blogging

My name is Valerie and I am a novice to the blogging world. I never blogged before American Lit (EL266), so this has been quite the learning process for me. I have listed my blogs chronologically by date.

Participation Portfolio 1  

"Young Goodman Brown" had the honor of being my first blog.

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/goodman-brown-what-the-hell-were-you-thinking.html

And then came "The Scarlet Letter."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/but-she-named-the-infant.html

  http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/enough-already-dimmesdale.html

 I'm now starting to get the hang of blogging, although I see I have a long way to go.

The readings in How to Read Literature Like a Professor shed some insight on the other readings we are doing.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/dont-i-know-you.html

Ok, enough with the Scarlet Letter, I think we've read and analyzed it to death, but in the process, learned much more about the story. I find the comments and responses from the others interesting and many give a different perspective.

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/vengence-for-chillingworth.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/hesters-salvation.html 

 On to poetry....

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/emilys-life-through-poetry.html

 Emily Dickinson proves to be a somewhat disturbed individual within her poetry, close readings have been interesting.

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass.html

 At this point I figured out how to link to my comment page, (I think)...

More from "How to Read Literature Like a Professor"

  http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/its-greek-to-me.html

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/symbolismmore-than-one-thing.html

 Along comes Bartleby, a sad character that "would not prefer to do much of anything" but is very good at annoying those around him. This reading sparked interesting comments from others.

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/living-i-would-prefer-not-to.html

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nature. His comparisons between God and nature give a feeling they could be one in the same at times. 

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/a-charming-landscape.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/the-same-yet-different.html

Using Emerson's "Nature" as a topic for Paper 1.

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/thinking-ahead.html

John Henry, another entertaining story/ballad that actually has meaning in today's world.

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/09/john-henry-today.html

 Uncle Remus, although entertaining, was a mentally exhausting reading, thank goodness for the podcast.

 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/10/den-brer-fox-know-dat.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/10/nights-with-uncle-remus-podcast.html

 My  first thesis paper presubmission.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/10/finding-god-through-nature-according-to-emerson.html

 Blogging on Foster's How to Read Literature LIke a Professor in between other readings is a nice change of pace. I can appreciate the literature we are reading a little more.

  http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ValerieSusa/2010/10/geography-does-matter-no-matter-where-you-are.html

 This is where I will end the assignment. There are more blogs to follow, but before I get too confused with what I have done so far, I would like to end here. As interesting as this class is, I get overwhelmed at times with so many different assignments going on at once.  I hope by the end of the semester I will able to blog with the best of them, but for now I'll do the best I can with what I am learning.