Meta Post Semester II

I believe that this semester was my best semester for blogging. Besides the fact that it was better because I actually kept up with it a little better than 2nd quarter, where I struggled on the morning of the due date for all blogs to finish mine, I feel like I also brought better ideas to the table that I will be able to use in thoughtful conversations outside of class as well. I also feel like I created a balanced mix of thoughts that I had on my own, like in Race In Classrooms and thoughts that sprung from class discussions, like The Death of Osama. However, I felt like some of the blogs I wrote from thoughts in class were almost exactly the same as the discussion we had in class. An example of this is More Huck Finn Controversy, where I talk about the banningof the book at New Trier and how I think if it should be banned at all, then it should be banned outside of classrooms so students could properly learn the social messages represented in the book. Although this is thought-provoking, it is still an idea that I took directly from someone else in class, and not my own.
I also had a lack of links in my blogs this semester. I am not sure if this observation is trivial or not, but I know that more links= more viewers. I don't think I did enough outside research for my blog this semester, which could have helped some of my arguments and comments.
I think my best blog for the whole entire semester is Theatrical Tokenism because I went very in-depth into the topic of tokenism in Les Miserables. Although it was quite long, I hoped that some people looking over my blog would be as interested/ appreciative of classic musical theater productions as I was. I brought in other ex   amples of different shows as well, such as Guys and Dolls. I also explained my point well with a little background of the story, rather than an complicated synopsis that would probably just confuse people. This is not something I've always necessarily been good at, so I think that is part of why I am so proud of this blog post. It's also my favorite because it was an original thought that I had outside of the classroom, but it is still mixed with conversations we had during school.