**The following is an example of Blogger #5: Letter to Character written by fellow PreAP 10 teacher, Ms. Rabaya . Here, Ms. Rabaya writes as Hermione from the Harry Potter book series.** Dear Ron, I don't where you are. I don't know whether to be mad or miss you. Sometimes I just want to yell at you for being so stubborn. But at this very moment, I choose worry. I worry that the Death Eaters have found you. I worry that they are torturing you. I worry that you are dead. If somehow this letter finds you, know that both me and Harry are worried about you and hope that you are safe. Everything went wrong after we left the Ministry of Magic. We had no where to go, and so out of force we had to live like nomads. We had to go place to place to protect ourselves. If we stayed in one location, we would have been found. Maybe it was the lack of communication with the outside world that got to you. It must've worried you sick that you didn't know how your f...
This post is a sample given to previous students of what you could possibly write for your Blog Post #2: Tone and Purpose . Your task is to find a section of text from your book whether a short quote or a small passage like this one. You will first write what you feel the author's tone is, then explain why he/she used this tone or for what purpose. ***** Here, the main character and narrator of the book I am reading, If I Stay by Gayle Forman, is describing her boyfriend's reaction to her collection of classical records: I’ve shown them to Adam, but that was only after we’d already been together for five months. I’d expected him to laugh . He’s such the cool guy with his pegged jeans and black low-tops, his effortlessly beat-up punk-rock tees and his subtle tattoos . He is so not the kind of guy to end up with someone like me . Which was why when I’d first spotted him watching me at the music studios at school two years ago, I’d been convinced ...