Welcome to the blogosphere!

Welcome! This is the digital hub for our class--a place where you will posts and comment throughout the year as a way of keeping up the conversation outside of the boundaries of the physical classroom.

Your first assignment is below:

Bohjalian prefaces The Buffalo Soldier with Bob Marley’s lyrics. Now, it’s your turn to imagine a musical epigraph for The Bell Jar. Pick some lyrics from a song (can be from any era) that you think best introduce a central them, motif, setting, idea, or character in the novel. Be selective with the lyrics (don’t quote more than 6 lines) and be sure to include them in your post. Then, write a well-developed post (think of this as a journal—I’ll be grading you on your ideas mostly) that proves why your lyrics are the most appropriate musical epigraph for the novel.

Extra Credit: Embed a YouTube video of your song (Go to YouTube, click on "Share" under the video, click on "Embed," copy the embed code, and in your blog post, click on HTML in the upper left hand corner of the taskbar. Paste the video into the HTML box and then click back on compose and write the rest of your post.)

An embedded video should look like this: