As we discussed during our Zoom call today, it’s time to complete the final Reader Response Assignment of the semester. As you recall, you agreed to do three different responses to three different texts over the course of the semester. The first was a response to the question “Is this a great work?” addressed to the text of your choice. The second was about The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
For the third and final installment of this project, please return to our original prompt: Is this a great work? This time, you may respond to any of the following texts: “Punishment,” “The Metamophosis,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “In the Wineshop,” “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,” or “The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid.” Using “Is this a great work?” as your jumping off point, craft a 300-500 personal response to the text. This time, just for fun, try to take off your “English class” hat and just speak back to the text in your own, most natural voice. What does this text have to say to you? What would you like to say back to the text? How did reading this text make you feel? What thoughts did this text evoke in you? What associations did it call up? Does it remind you of anything? If you are a visual thinker, feel free to link to images in your response. What elements of the text have stayed with you? Why? Use this response as a chance to flex your creative muscle.
When you have completed your response, please post it to our course blog. Additionally, please use the link below to submit all three of your Reader Responses to the team coordinating this project. You can find your first two responses on the blog if you don’t have access to them on your own computer. Please let me know if you have any questions about this.
Click here to access the Reader Response Submission Form! (url: https://tinyurl.com/yaup8xg7)
