- You are expected to keep a Reading Response Journal.
- Each individual entry should include:
a. The date
b. The pages read.
c. A brief summary of the plot. Be sure to include detailed information about plot, conflict, and character development with each entry. This should not be the focus of your responses
For example: If the plot has reached its climax, be sure to note what the climactic moment is. Explain how the characters react to the climax. How has the conflict influenced the climax?
d. Entries should reflect Stage III, synthesis and evaluation of each text.
e. Be sure to note any literary devices employed by the author. See the UCT Glossary of Literary, Poetic, and Rhetorical Devices posted on the school’s website. Give detailed examples of how the devices are used within the work. For example: Be sure to comment on the work’s setting. How does the setting influence the characters? How might the setting reflect the conflict? What tone has been established? Is the author using irony – dramatic, situational, or verbal irony?
f. In addition to literary devices, include any vocabulary found in the text of the work with which you are not familiar. Define the term, and record the sentence and page number on which it appears. - Neatly record your Reading Response Journal in a composition notebook, a Word Document, or in Google Docs. I would recommend typing your journal entries using Google Docs.
- The Reading Response Journals and quotations will be collected alongside the other components on September 6. However, we will be utilizing the journals throughout our first few weeks. It is important for them to be complete to effectively engage in our classwork.
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