Within these responses, you do not need to worry about grammar, spelling, or proper organization of your ideas-the short written response is a place for you to practice writing as a means of discovering what you think, working out your ideas so that you may better articulate them during our discussions.
- Some questions to consider to get you started include (but are not limited by):
- What are some first impressions and questions that come to mind during and after your reading?
- What confuses you? What piques your curiosity or makes you want to know more?
- What words or phrases affect you most?
- Do you identify with any of the characters or situations? If so, does this sense of identification help or interfere with your response? How so?
- What do you find most interesting or compelling about the work?
You might also consider answering any questions provided by the text after each poetry, drama, or fiction selection.