updated 2-12-2014
Because this will be a formal paper eventually, I recommend using WORD at this point. [Of course, you can write your blog as if you were doing a blog post, including pictures and videos inserted in the best possible places. When you are done, add the word count at the bottom, with and without quotes. The put the actual bios and the screen shots of the webpages inserted as appendices at the end. Or you can use your regular blog site. Then copy the full URL at the top bar of your browser and post the link to your blog in the P3B Blog on BLACKBOARD.]
AFTER YOU HAVE HAD A BLOG OFFICIALLY ACCEPTED BY APA, HOW DO YOU RE-WRITE IT FROM THE ANIMAL'S POINT OF VIEW?
REQUIREMENT: YOU MUST INCLUDE THE ANIMAL'S POINT OF VIEW ABOUT LOSS OF FREEDOM, ABOUT THE ANIMAL'S PHYSICAL CONFINEMENT, etc. WHY? Because we want to be able to use what we learn from this particular assignment to extend compassion better to GRAY WOLF. Substantial bonus points for not only including passages from Kafka's Report to the Academy, especially this section, but also revealing insights into the meaning of this section.
You could use this approach, though not, of course, in these words:
We know _______'s history after s/he was put in the shelter, but like all (so many) of the dogs and cats who end up in the Town Lake Animal Shelter (Center) ___________'s name was put on the books there with little or no information about his/her past. __________ can not tell us what happened to him/her before the Shelter. So we will speak for him as best we can. We know that he was either homeless or rejected by his family. Let's assume he was homeless and that his story was something like this.
[his or her story as you imagine it up to and including his being put in the shelter]. Then, you tell the animal's story from is point of view, knowing that, like all of the dogs and cats who end up in the shelter, the animal suffered the trauma of the long wait to be adopted, then the short death-row wait to be killed, then ecstasy of escape from death at the last minute, the joy of meeting up with the APA rescuers, then the loving kindness of the APA! drivers, doctors, foster parents, volunteers at the adoption locations, etc. Then he or she experienced the wait with the foster parents, the wait at the Petsmart and other street adoption sites, perhaps picking up a few diseases along the way, like ring worm, Feline Herpes Virus, etc. Finally, s/he experiences confinement in that small space while waiting for someone to adopt him and take him to his/her forever home.
Good examples from a previous class (their second half of the assignment was different)
good writing, transitions, sections 1 and 2 Oreocookies Mr. Bob
good sections 1 and 2, good research: Felicity
good writing, sections 1 and 2: Pumpkin
good sections 1 and 2: Saphera
good transition and section 1: Cleo Stormcloak
