AP Lit Ms.

Bartley

Reading Response Entry Guidelines

What are the reading-response strategies? Critical thinking strategies that emphasis their attention on the reader rather than on the work itself. Examines what the reader thinks, feels, experiences, and connects to while reading the work. These strategies call attention to how we read and what influences or readings. These strategies offer explanations and reasoning of responses, though, not simply the response itself.

When constructing any reading response for any text you should: Consider your intellectual and emotional responses. What did you immediately think or feel? What did you think or feel after looking or reading it again? Why did you have this response? Did you have more than one response? Avoid summary. A reading response entry is not the arena to summarize what you read. If you were confused by what you read, state that in your response and why it was confusing to you. Write the entry in your notebook, but keep in my mind that I will collect them after our discussions. Aim for at least one complete pages worth of content in your notebook. Offer explanations and reasoning of your responses. Why did you think or feel this way? Pose any questions that you have to include during discussion.

Daily Reading Responses:

These must be written in your notebooks. The responses should be at least 1-2 full pages in length and should be dated. These are to be completed even when you are absent from class. Highlight portions that would spur class discussion and that you would be willing to share. Remember to mark page numbers for any passages you would like to further examine in class. Use textual details with page numbers to support your analysis. Sometimes I will assign you specific questions to explore as you do the assigned readings each night. Other times, you will respond meaningfully to the text you are reading by detailing your interpretations in any of the following areas:
1. 2. 3. Using literary terms, comment on the relationship between or among characters. Analyze the setting. Relate the details of the setting or the weather to a theme or to other structural devices you notice working in the novel. Do you perceive any archetypal patterns? Analyze these.

4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

How does the authors style enhance the story? In what ways? What is the authors tone and how does this tone help to deliver theme? Is the novel a social critique? In what ways? How does the author deliver his/her specific commentary? Analyze the structure of the text. How would you label it? How does the structure enhance the meaning of the story? What connections did you make while reading the text? What is the author saying about life and living through the book? What is the larger meaning, moral? What parts of the book seem most believable or unbelievable? Why?

Grading of Reading Response Entries: 10pts for meeting the criteria above for overall content 5pts for written in complete sentences and paragraphs with appropriate punctuation and grammar. (No text language!) 5pts for meeting the length requirement