Persuasive Writing & Blogging

Hopefully, you've all finished your persuasive essays and have emailed them to me. Monday I'll be turning in your grades, and the essay is an important part of that grade.

This past month, students have protested, and so have teachers. Are you aware that many people all over the world use blogs as a way to protest?

Take a look at these pages. Bloggers in Iran are using the Internet to speak their minds. Some of them have been persecuted for telling their stories:
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/364_IranBlog.pdf

Another site has a directory of blogs in English: http://blogsbyiranians.com/

Find one of these sites that impresses you. Write a review of that site on your blog, and include a link to the blog you are reviewing. Why is this blog worth reading? What impressed you about it enough to include it? Remember that these people, like you, are English learners.