Blogroll and Commenting: Topic 3

1. How can blogging be used to enhance learning in your high school classes?

I personally think blogs can be used to track student's progress like for projects or other things. It's a good way for people to interact as well and aid each other with certain things like homework.

2. Tell us about two of the characters in the book that you are reading for your book trailer. What do they look like?  What kind of personality characteristics do they have?  Do they have any problems?  Would you be friends with them if they went to your high school?  

Two characters in my book that I'm reading in my book are Princess Lia Jezelia and her mother. Lia has long black hair and dark eyes, typically wearing fancy and noble clothing. She's very sharp tongued but also is careful about doing the right thing. Her main issue is that she has to marry a boy from another kingdom that she hasn't even met, but she wants instead to chose her own life. Her mother is tall and orderly, wearing her hair back and having sharp facial features. She does what she believes is best for the kingdom and doesn't take emotions into account, like how she urges her daughter to marry the unknown prince. Other than her daughter getting married, she doesn't really have any problems. I would probably be friends with Lia but not with her mother. Her mom seems too strict and I wouldn't enjoy being with someone who does things out of tradition and refuses to change.

3.What about the setting of the book.  Where does it take place: in the country, the city, a high school? What is the time frame: in the present, the past, the future?  Describe one scene in the book so that we can get a feel for the setting and time.

This book takes place in a medieval setting in a fictional kingdom called Morrighan. Despite it being an old setting, this time frame is in the present and chronicles a young girl escaping from a forced marriage. One of the scenes that shows this setting is right in the beginning when she completes a sort of wedding ritual and is left with her mother in a room of the Morrighan castle. Lia notes the carriages passing by underneath and talks with her mother about her duties as a First Daughter of their household.