Weekend fun, assignment and blogging privately

Over the last weekend in September (some trees are turning color; gonna be full-out Fall soon!) you should take some time to prepare for the quiz on Monday. 

The contents of the quiz will be drawn from Chapters 8 and 9, China and India respectively.  The format of the quiz will be short answer, which means you will be asked a question and have to provide an answer in 1 or 2 sentences.  There will be a total of 5 questions, and you must answer 4 (so you can choose to skip one, and no, there is no extra credit for answering all 5.  If you do, I will read and grade the first four and skip the last question regardless of which answers are best.)  You will need a pen.

We are moving on, and for the next week, Greece is the word! So start reading Chapter 10, pages 231-237. I'll not be checking notes.

And as an extra to today's discussion about blogs and followers, specifically blocking unwanted followers:

WordPress doesn't allow you to block specific followers, but you can make your blog private and invite your classmates to view it.  You can see instructions by clicking here.

Blogger allows you to remove followers from your "Following" list, by blocking them from being shown on your page. You can see instructions here.  But you can't stop that person from viewing your blog as long as it is still public.  As with WordPress, you can make your blog private and invite your classmates to follow you, and instructions are posted here.

Inviting your classmates will involve sending them an email with a link (likely you can do this directly from your blog) however, bpsk121.org won't accept invites from emails outside the system.  So, you either need to invite people through their personal emails, or copy and paste the invite link into a school email and send it to them that way.  (That may or may not work, I'm not sure yet...) Either way, you will face some data entry time in order to do this.

Please be sure to invite me to view your blog if you make it private, and let me know if you make your settings private, as that may change the way Protopage.com's links work...