This is the Reading Response Forum.
You will read a story, poem or play in class every Monday.
After class, you will come to this site and will post a response to that reading.
On Wednesday, in class, you share your response. Go back online before midnight that day and write a reaction to someone's reading response.
On Friday,
One person brings a response for everyone to read in class. Everyone else, writes an on-line reaction to a peer's post.
Use the Following Structure for Responses:
The ABC Reading Structure
A Title – Fill in the title field.
• State the author’s Name
• Summarize the author’s life/work in at least three to four sentences.
central meaning. This passage should connect with the title.
Correlate – Write about how the passage applies to you, to someone you know, to a group or to society. Here are some questions that might help you. See what connections you can make and explore:
- Are there any passages in the reading that you, because of your life experience, are especially able to understand and appreciate? Write about one of those passages and show how it relates to your experience.
- Choose a passage from the reading, and tell what it helps explain about an experience you have known. After you have said as much as you can, consider this: does the passage exhaust the meaning of the experience, account for the experience you have in mind?
- Would a person who accepted this character’s ideas choose the same paths in life that you have chosen or that you have seen others choose? How would the ideas for this reading alter your life or the life of someone you know well?
- Are the writer’s or character’s ideas useful to a person in a certain lifestyle or profession? What difference would these ideas make for someone living that lifestyle or practicing that profession?
Required questions and goals for Reading Responses and In-Class Discussion
- Identify the cause of human suffering—Tragedy
- How can the tragedy be turned into a comedy?
- Identify the cause of joy or happiness—Comedy
mind as you read the passage or answer the questions.
1 comment:
William Faulkner-Born in 1897, Faulkner was brought up in what is now called, The Old South, in Oxford, MS. The title of this reading is 'That Evening Sun'. My passage is 'We left her sitting before the fire.'. This passage, and the ones before and after, remind me of reading/seeing about how black people were portrayed with all the suspicions, the ESP they had, the black woman being pregnant with the white mans baby and the jealous, scarred-up black man who she was or was not married to. It seems, to me, very stereotypical old black to me, but to the writer may have been exactly what he experienced himself or heard from someone else. This is my comment on this passage we read, but I don't think I would care to read much more of it, or others like it.
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