Blogroll and Commenting: Topic 3

1. How could blogging be used to enhance learning in your high school classes?  It could possibly help them write papers or maybe show what is appropriate on what to put up?
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 PHS?   the two characters I will talk about are prince Alec and airman Deryn. Alek has brown hair, green eyes, and wears an over coat, pants and boots. Deryn has short blond hair, blue eyes, and wears a crewman outfit like everyone else on the airship. Alek holds himself high and that tends to get him in trouble. he is a prince from Austria who was taught many languages and how to fight with a sword. even though he acts all high and mighty he tries to help the Darwnests who are an enemy of Austria so he could find a way to end this war. Deryn can have a smart mouth but puts it to good use. they care a lot about the fabricated beasts and knows a lot about them. they love to be in the sky. Alek had to leave Austria because his parents were poisoned so someone could start a war between the Darwnests and Clankers and is being hunted down because he has a small chance of rising to the throne and ending the war. Deryn is a girl but she has to pose as a boy named Dylen so she doesn't get kicked off the Leviathan and be sent home to live a boring life and never be able to fly again. I think I might have a chance to be friends with Deryn if she went here but its not that big of a chance. 
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. The story takes place in Europe during the WW2 era but in an alternate universe where there are the Darwnests who fabricate animals for different purposes that are helpful, and the Clankers who see the fabricated beasts as soulless abominations and they use large machines instead. It's all steampunk like too so that's an awesome bonus.   In one scene the Leviathan was under attack by German planes who were shooting holes into the hydrogen filled beasty to try to bring it down.