Reader Response
When discussing a text, we will always begin with our personal response as readers. Following each reading assignment in the short fiction unit, you will complete a Reader Response entry before class in response to the prompt provided. We will refer to the responses as we begin our class discussion.
Reader Responses are completed on Haiku before the class when the text will be discussed.
Reader Responses are worth 10 points each and count as 10% of the semester grade.
An excellent (10 point) response will
Reader Responses are completed on Haiku before the class when the text will be discussed.
Reader Responses are worth 10 points each and count as 10% of the semester grade.
An excellent (10 point) response will
- clearly demonstrate an understanding of the prompt in relation to the text, show a close reading of the text, and provide an insightful explanation/opinion that links to and extends aspects of the text.
- communicate a genuine reading experience through a clearly personal voice.
- contain no mechanical or sentence errors that distract the reader from the content.
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- Identify and evalutate an author's use of fictional elements, including style, tone, and irony
"Flowers" by Alice WalkerClick for the text of "Flowers."
Alice Walker is an African American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. Walker's creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial terror, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South. Her writing explores multidimensional kinships among women and embraces the redemptive power of social and political revolution.
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"Who's Irish" by Gish JenClick for the text of "Who's Irish." If the link is blocked, download the document file below.
Gish Jen was born in Long Island, New York in 1955, a second-generation Chinese-American. She graduated from Harvard with a degree in English and later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Jen is the author of four novels and a book of stories. In addition, her stories have been published in many places including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, as well as in various anthologies. Her honors include the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and children.
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