The two main questions are always:

1- What’s working in this piece?

2-What is not working as well as it could be working?

In order to answer that question, you generally need to also be able to answer the question:  What is this piece trying to do or communicate?   AND  How is this piece trying to communicate this feeling/idea/etc.?

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More specific questions for the listening project are:

1- Are you clear on the title and author of the original article?
2- Are you clear about what the original article says versus what the response says?

3- Do you need to listen to the music to understand your classmate’s response?

4- Is this response a critique of the original article (i.e. an assessment on how it was written rather than a response to the conversation the article is putting forth)?

5- Similarly does your classmate offer something of their own person and their own thinking and reflection in their response?   (Do they tell us something about their own lives? Do they present a new question? Do they take us deeper into thinking about an idea the original article proposes)?

6- Does this response seem to have its own central claim? (Does it have its own argument?)

7- Are there sentences or phrases in your classmate’s writing that you find hard to understand or believe need to be clarified?

8- Overall what is working in this response?

9- What one thing do you think is working the least?

10- What could your classmate do to expand on what’s already working in this paragraph?