Reading Response Assignment (RR4)
Choose a poem in Chapter 12 or in the Exploring Gender album.
Prompt: Write an essay in which you show how and why the speaker experiences a conflict between particular ways of looking or being. Also look at how the speaker’s attitude toward, or thoughts about, something or how our vision of the speaker’s character changes over the course of a poem.
Your postings will be reviewed according to the following criteria:
• Writing well-developed paragraphs relevant to the prompt(s) (minimum 300 words).
• Be sure that your thesis is explicit and supported with one to two quotations from the literature.
• Following the rules of Standard English (for example, no lowercase “i” for the pronoun I). Please proofread your writing before clicking the ‘submit’ button!
• When you include a quotation from the literature in your mini-essay, please place an in-text citation (also called a parenthetical citation) immediately after you close the quotation marks and before you place a period at the end of your sentence. That way, anyone in the class (including me!) can easily find the quotation in the literature if necessary. If you’re not sure what to place inside the parentheses, there is instruction in the textbook in Chapter 34-Quotation, Citation, and Documentation.
