New Media English 11
Response Writing
Curricular
Competencies (Learning Standards) being
assessed:
I can
- Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend
written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry and extend
thinking
- Think
critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and
beyond texts
Apply
appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual and multimodal texts
·
Apply: put to use for practical purpose
·
Multimodal: texts that combine two or
more means of communication (visual, audio, gestural, spatial)
·
Comprehend: make sense of
·
Reading strategies: making predictions,
asking questions, paraphrasing/summarizing, making connections, reflecting,
analyzing parts, determining importance
·
Context and purpose help determine
appropriate strategies
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore
ideas within, between, and beyond texts.
- Texts:
all forms of written, oral, visual, or digital communication
- Think
critically: analyze (break down and examine the parts), evaluate, and
judge
- Think
creatively: a unique perspective; thinking “outside the box”; forming new
ideas or solutions
- Think
reflectively: thoughtful, deliberate reflection of
experience/understanding; consciously thinking about/analyzing; interpret
and evaluate your experiences
- Within:
one text
- Between:
more than one text
- Beyond:
thinking thematically; linking it to yourself or issues that exist outside
the text
New Media English 11
Response Writing
Curricular
Competencies (Learning Standards) being assessed:
I
can
- Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend
written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry and extend
thinking
- Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Directions: Create a response to communicate
what you got out of reading Night. There is no formal structure for a
response; organize it as you see fit to most effectively convey your thoughts
(journal? series of paragraphs? blog post?). The following prompts are meant to
help you find inspiration for your response. Do not treat them as questions
that must be answered; select the ones that lead to interesting thoughts for
you. Feel free to work beyond these prompts if they do not reflect the extent
of your response.
Suggested
Process:
- Use
the prompts to brainstorm. As well, brainstorm your own thoughts and see where
this takes you. Pay particular attention to the criterion to “think
reflectively” as this may be new for you: Analyze the experience of reading
this novel.
- Consider the different
reading strategies you have been working with as means of exploring the novel.
- Remember the process of
brainstorming is to get out as many ideas as possible. Don’t censor yourself
(“that’s not important”). Do that later as you start to organize your thoughts.
- When
you feel you have nothing left to brainstorm, look for connections among what
you’ve put down on paper. How might you organize these thoughts to
communicate the depth of your understanding?
- Create
your written response (in a Google Doc). Re-visit your brainstorming to see if
you can stretch yourself and your thinking. Revise the response.
Once
you are satisfied, publish your response to your blog.
Some
Suggested Prompts:
- Comparisons to other
stories or similar experiences you’ve had to the story (or aspects of the
story)
- what you like or dislike
- your opinions or insights
of the characters (including how they interact)
- what you wonder
- what you had an emotional
reaction to (positive or negative)
- what you learned from
reading the book
- what insight into human
nature you had
- what parts (scenes?
themes? characters?) stay with you after finishing
*You
will be writing a literary essay to discuss the effectiveness of the
storytelling by analyzing its parts (theme, conflict, symbolism, etc.), so do
not focus on this type of writing for this assignment. This should be personal
and focus on your response to the novel.
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