Response to a Short Story
START by reading the assigned TASK: response assignment sheet & checklist
Step 1. Review all four (4) note-sheets done to the stories and choose the story on which you think you can write the best response.
Step 2. Review your notes on this story, maybe even re-read the story as a refresher. Add onto your response plan. You can also look at these websites to round out your understanding of that text. Consider this research - do not plagiarize.
Step 3. Start drafting the response.
Step 1. Review all four (4) note-sheets done to the stories and choose the story on which you think you can write the best response.
Step 2. Review your notes on this story, maybe even re-read the story as a refresher. Add onto your response plan. You can also look at these websites to round out your understanding of that text. Consider this research - do not plagiarize.
- James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" confirm what we said as a class here, review analyses here
- Isak Dinesen's "The Blue Jar" confirm what we said as a class here
- Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" confirm what we said as a class here, review analyses here
- Alice Walker's "Roselily" confirm what we said as a class here
Step 3. Start drafting the response.
- Here is a template for rough drafting that you can type into (PDF version here for handwriting or consulting)
- Here is the rough draft model with template that I refer to in the instructional videos: compare the okay version and the stronger version
- Here are the Literary Lenses as a reminder, you do need to use one.
- This is a resource for different ways to begin a paper - the Leads handout
- Watch these instructional videos, including setting up your paper in MLA format:
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Step 4. Peer- and self-review
Step 5. Revise and polish the good copy. Making sure all your MLA formatting and citation rules are being followed:
Step 6. Submit as follows:
- On the typed, MLA formatted full draft, get at least two (2) peers to give you feedback. Focus on the criteria for the task.
- Go over all the feedback and make your own notes on your draft for revision.
- See my peer-reviewed and self-annotated version
Step 5. Revise and polish the good copy. Making sure all your MLA formatting and citation rules are being followed:
- Sauve MLA formatting video tutorial AND/OR OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab: MLA formatting guide
- Sauve MLA citation handout for formatting your quotations AND/OR see OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab: MLA citation guide
- See my final GC response model, revised, properly formatted and titled
Step 6. Submit as follows:
- In the Teams assignment for the response, upload the good copy only as a Word document (-5% if late, Oct. 26) Grp 51 Grp 53 Grp 54 Grp 55