3.3 Writer's Workshop: Blog Post
Planning
Now is the time to start planning your own blog post (note: You don't need to have your own blog).
For each step of this workshop you will use this template to complete your writing and hand in the same file each time you add to it.
Open the template and complete Step 1: Planning:
Choose one of your categories from your zeef board to write a blog post summary of the resources that you found. You will choose at least three resources from your board in that category. I chose the subtopic of tiny homes from this Zeef board on Housing the Future Population.
For each resource:
- Create a catchy subtitle.
- Add the URL of the resource
- Summary Notes: As you review the resource for your reader, make short notes of what you summary will include.
- Choose a quote that you will include your summary of the resource.
Examples:
Subtopic 1 Title: What is the Tiny House Movement?
URL of resource: Blog: The Tiny Life https://thetinylife.com/what-is-the-tiny-house-movement/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ZEEF&utm_source=https%3A%2F%2Fhousing-the-future-population.zeef.com%2Fpaige.diggle
Summary Notes: Good starting point. Content: What it is, why you should join the movement, what it looks like, articles on living the simple life, videos on designing a tiny house and a checklist for building. Links to other resources. Posts on challenges
Quote: Simply put, the trend toward tiny houses has become a social movement. People are choosing to downsize the space they live in, simplify, and live with less. People are embracing the tiny life philosophy and the freedom that accompanies the tiny house lifestyle. (Martin, 2018)
Subtopic 2 Title: Living with a family of five!
Summary Notes: Short video on inside look at a functioning tiny house. For example how the wall shelf folds down to become a table.
Quote: “Because it’s so small everything has to do more than one thing” Mother of the family.
Subtopic 3 Title: Tiny House Building Series.
URL: Youtube Playlist 80 videos Tiny House Building Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_RlSJlbk9U&list=PLlUOuqspk4WGpGZPIOKrCti363Eu0MSTl
Summary: 80 videos showing step by step construction of a tiny home by a young couple. Each video also comes with links in the transcript to their website, social media page and resources they have used. Etc. Entertaining well produced.
Quote: “We are both 28 and having been renting our entire adult lives and a regular house has always seemed out of reach, but this tiny house concept seems really appealing and like something we could actually achieve.”
Complete Step 1: Planning. Save your document and submit in the dropbox: Expository Planning: Unit 3.
When your teacher has marked this step, continue on to drafting your piece.