And thus it beginneth

Hello, I'm Al, and I'm supposed to do up a blog for an English project. Seriously. Analyses of news articles,. around 300-500 words long, and teo by the end of this term. What is the English Programme coming to these days? Better and warmer were the times of endless tests and exams, of projects that involved written work...oh well. Don't set your hopes up too high; this blog'll probably die at the end of the project.