The Assignment For this assignment, you will write a 500 word-minimum response t

Posted: October 28th, 2023

The Assignment
For this assignment, you will write a 500 word-minimum response to the reading assigned for the week that the assignment is due. These responses are not formal essays. Rather, they are an opportunity for you to say what you think and/or how you feel about the assigned reading and/or our discussion of the assigned reading. You should choose something about which you have something more substantial to say than “I like it,” or “It’s too long,” or some such thing. I have provided you below with some broad guiding questions to help you get started.
While these responses are not formal essays and therefore do not have to have a thesis statement around which they are organized, you do still need to pay attention to the overall organization and structure of what you hand in; and you especially need to pay attention to editing and proofreading.
Guiding Questions
While these questions do no address the specific characters, plots, or issues in your assigned reading, you should be able to use them as a starting point for your response:
• Choose a character: What was your first impression? Did that impression change over time? Do you find any given character sympathetic or unsympathetic? Did our discussion change the way you saw that character?
• Choose one action that a character took: Do you think the character you’re interested in was right to do what they did? Why or why not? What do you think about the way other characters reacted?
• Choose our discussion of an issue that the text addresses: What did you think of this discussion? What is your position? Did it change over the course of the discussion? What did you agree or disagree with during the discussion?
• Choose a passage in the text and look closely at the language in the text: What do you think about the way the author wrote that passage? Why do you think they chose the words, the sentence structures, the diction, they did?
• If we (or you on your own) have read any secondary sources about our text: Do you agree or disagree with the position taken by the author of that secondary text?