Reading Response - Reflect and Connect [July 20, 2012, 8:44 p.m.]
Read for at least 2 hours. Your goal is to finish your book or article(s) before the 4 Tasks of this Challenge are completed.
You can do this in one sitting or you can do it 4 times for thirty minutes each time or 6 times for twenty minutes each. But it has to be focused, uninterrupted reading. No multi-tasking during your reading time.
After you've read your book or your article for at least 2 hours open a Google Document and plan to write for about 30 minutes.
Begin by freewriting about your text. Write non-stop for 5 or ten minutes about anything that comes into your head about your book or article.
Then turn to the Literature Response Guides or to this guide, "General Response to a Non-Fiction Article. Say how a part of your book is similar to or different from something in your life or something that you've seen in the news.
Share your Doc with a teacher and a couple of peers, and ask them to make a couple of comments. Do not publish it on Youth Voices yet. Also make your document public.
In the Post Comment button here (on P2PU) add a link to your Google Document. You can find the link to your Google Document under the Share button. Do this before you click Yes, I'm done .
We encourage students to break out of the overly structured guides and create your own kinds of response. However, we do ask you to keep in mind the following guidelines:
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Begin by doing a freewrite: your first thoughts about this section of the book or article. You'll need to revise this writing before you publish it on Youth Voices.
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Be specific about your response to your reading, and give an example from the text. Quote from the text.
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Quote a second section from the text when you make connections, ask questions, track elements of the text, or compare it to other things.
- End by predicting what you think might happen next, and say how you feel about continuing your reading