Blogging Expectations

Fresco from the Naples museum showing a scraper, wax tablets, an ink well and pen, and papyrus

30% of your grade is your Travel and Reading Reflections Blog.

That is 2 points per post unless otherwise indicated.

At least 15 of the 21 days you will create a post on this class website:

  • no less than 300 original words
  • minimum 2 original pictures
  • at least one quote from an ancient author (i.e. from the assigned reading) 
  • set a featured image
  • categorized appropriately
  • Your title should be the number of the day of the prompt you’re answering, followed by something that thematically intersects with your own post/observations, not the title of the day examples might be: “0: Plane Food? Plain Food.” “1: Why are there two toilets?” “2: Industrial Nostalgia”. You may find adding the title last easiest.
  • When you finish writing add the word count to the top of the post along with the minutes to read (you’ll find this on side panel under the post options tab)

There are more suggested writing prompts than you need to complete, choose those that work best for you and find your own voice in sharing your experiences.

These guidelines will be further expanded closer to the start of course itself.

Fresco showing a money pouch between gold heaps and writing utensils (below), from the Praedia of Julia Felix in Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum