5.5: Assignment - Reading Response Us and Them
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For this assignment, practice creating a Reading Response essay with David Sedaris’s Us and Them.
Directions
- Review the grading rubric as listed on this page.
- Review the Writing a Reading Response page.
- Print and annotate David Sedaris’s Us and Them.
- Open a new Google Doc, title it with your First Name, Last Name, and “Reading Response with Us and Them.”
- Set the Google Doc share permissions to “Anyone with the link.”
- Practice writing a reading response with Sedaris’s Us and Them in your Google Doc:
In the first paragraph of your reading response, mention the title, author, and main thesis of Us and Them. Then connect to the Text by answering:- What does the text have to do with you, personally, and with your life (past, present or future)?
- How much does the text agree or clash with your view of the world, and what you consider right and wrong?
- What did you learn, and how much were your views and opinions challenged or changed by this text, if at all?
- How well does the text address things that you, personally, care about and consider important to the world?
- What can you praise about the text? What problems did you have with it?
- How well did you enjoy the text (or not) as entertainment or as a work of art?
- To sum up, what is your overall reaction to the text?
- Copy and paste the final version of your essay to a new WordPress blog post.
- Submit the URL of your blog to your instructor.
Grading
Points: 80
Submitting: a website URL
Reading Response Us and Them KEEP | |||||||
Criteria | Ratings | Points | |||||
First line includes title, author, main thesis | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 7 pts |
No reference to text 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Connect text to you and life | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 7 pts |
No connection 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Connect text to view of world/right and wrong | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 7 pts |
No connection 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Learned from text | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 7 pts |
No connection 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Connect text to what is important to the world | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 7 pts |
No connection 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Praise/Problems with text | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 7 pts |
No connection 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Enjoy/Not Enjoy | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 7 pts |
No connection 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Overall reaction | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 7 pts |
No connection 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Analyze a text for purpose and intended meaning | Exceeds expectations 0 pts |
Meets expectations 0 pts |
Does not meet expectations 0 pts |
0 pts | |||
Create a Reader Response to text. | Exceeds expectations 0 pts |
Meets expectations 0 pts |
Does not meet expectations 0 pts |
0 pts | |||
TOTAL POINTS | 80 pts |
Contributors
CC LICENSED CONTENT, SHARED PREVIOUSLY
- Reading Response Us and Them. Authored by: Elisabeth Ellington and Ronda Dorsey Neugebauer. Provided by: Chadron State College. Project: Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative. License: CC BY: Attribution
- How to Write a Reaction Paper or Reader Response. Authored by: Owen M. Williamson. Provided by: University of Texas El Paso. Located at: http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl0310/readerresponse.htm. License: CC0: No Rights Reserved