Welcome!

Hi and welcome to a new school year and to English 1 at Ålesund VGS. This blog will be used by your teachers to post relevant content, recommended readings and assignments.

Each of you will also create your own blog where you respond to writing assignments given here and in class. Since we know the wordpress system best, it is easiest for us to help you with the blog if you choose to create one on wordpress yourself. Use https://www.wordpress.com and choose a free account. When making your account you can choose whether to have a public, private or hidden blog, but no matter which you choose you have to share the link with your teacher. Make sure to use an e- mail address you check often for your log-in, and a password you will be able to remember. As you create your blog, remember that the blog is not ready until you have pressed “publish.” Then you can send a link to the blog to your teacher.

You will receive assignments to publish on your blogs, and some of these will be graded with grades, others will be graded “approved” / “not approved”. This is a good way to practice and develop your writing skills.

So, get to it! Create your blog, and include links to other public blogs of your classmates, as well as our teacher blog, if you find other relevant sites you are free to link to these as well.  You might also include a map so you can see where your visitors are from.

We encourage you to read some of your fellow students blogs – both for inspiration and to support each other. Maybe also leave a comment?

We look forward to getting to know you all, to learn and to work together with all the interesting, relevant topics of English 1 throughout the year.

Ingunn/Hanna