Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Mystery Literary Response paragraphs.

Please don't forget to have your green autobiographical facts completed for computer lab tomorrow.


Mystery Literary Response Paragraphs
In place of summary paragraph, please use these guidelines.

4. Literary Response: Write two or three paragraphs using the predictions you made as you read the book to write a literary interpretation of the plot. You are NOT writing a summary. Was the author clever in the vices used to create the mystery? Prove what you say by using citations from the book. As you made your predictions, did the author surprise you or were you able to predict the plot line. Be specific and give examples of your predictions and citations to back up the author’s surprises. Did the author use any foreshadowing that you were able to realize and therefore predict the correct outcome? (Prove with citations.) Was the mystery unpredicted or was it a typical story with a common mystery topic?

21 comments:

Unknown said...

first comment


this is confusing

Anonymous said...

that was me up there

Nicholas L. Period 4 said...

Do we still have an introduction and conclusion paragraph or is the whole response just three paragraphs

SURABHI said...

do we still have characters and setting and plot???

Anonymous said...

Is it mandatory or extra credit?

Sami E. said...

its mandatory

Sami E. said...

& yes we still do the charcter & setting & polt, this is just a change in one ov da paragraphs i think

Eric X. Per. 3 TA said...

I think that we just replace the summary/plot paragraph, which is number 4, with the literary response. Ms. Gladden said, "In place of summary paragraph...", so the literary reponse becomes your "summary" paragraph. Additionally, since the blog said, "Write two or three paragraphs...", we probably have to write more than one paragraph for the literary response portion.

lizzie :D said...
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SURABHI said...

Ms.Gladden do we right more than one paragraph for the predictions part??? How many paragraphs are there in all???

Anonymous said...

its the same book respons but instead of writing a polt paragraph we use these directions, right? And iclude it in the book respons

Eric X. Per. 3 TA said...

Yes. You replace the plot paragraph with the new literary response part. I don't know exactly how many paragraphs you need to write it, just write use as many paragrahs as you need (maybe?).

Eric X. Per. 3 TA said...

Sorry, I meant "write/use" in the how many paragraphs part. :)

Anonymous said...

is it 3 more paragraphs so the resopnes is oing to be 7 or as many as we need?

Eric X. Per. 3 TA said...

In total, you need 7 paragraphs.
Introduction: 1
Settings: 1
Characters: 1
Literary Response: 3
Conlcusion: 1

1+1+1+3+1=7 :D

David R. period 5 said...

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Jordyn C. Per.4 said...

Wait?! 7 paragraphs??? Now I'm confused.

Eric X. Per. 3 TA said...

Jordyn:

Introduction: 1 paragraph
Settings: 1 paragraph
Characters: 1 paragraph
Literary Response: 3 paragraphs (instead of summary)
Conlcusion: 1 paragraph

If you add them all up, you have 7 paragraphs to write.

Jordyn C. Per.4 said...

Well, 6 or 7 paragraphs. Becuase some people will only write 2 paragraphs. But yes, I understand.

Jordyn C. Per.4 said...

Can we use "I" in these 2/3 paragraphs? ('m sure this question has already been answered...sorry :))

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