Working on Summary/Response

Let's check on the rhetorical situation here:

Genre: summary/response essay which is very similar to a book or movie review.

Audience: someone who has NOT read the original (so they would not need to). This is an artificial requirement; many of your readers WILL have read the article, but you are writing as though we had not.

Purpose: to provide a clear, unbiased account of the article, and then share your reaction to it (thoughts about it). Therefore you must think.

Draft #1 is due tomorrow. You MUST have both some summary and some response in this draft to get credit for it. 



Get into groups.  Show each other your organizational maps of the article.  Share questions and thoughts that you had about the article as you read it -- you must copy down three questions (can be yours or someone else's) in your daybook below your "chart."  When you have done this, you  have time to work on your draft.

Homework:

1. Create Draft #1 of your Summary/Response.

2. One vocabulary word. You should have 19 words by the end of this week. I will be checking journals next week for midterm grades. Any daybook work that was assigned as homework receives points. Scroll down in the blog to check assignments.