100 10051 120 Sophomore Writing Workshop (ACP/SCP/GEN) 121, 122, 123 130 Writing a Response to Literature -- Poetry 140 6-9 days 150 10 160 170 4 180 210 23.1 Language Arts - Reading and Responding 211 1.9.2 212 1.9.6 213 2.9.2 214 2.9.4 215 3.9.3 216 4.9.2 220 23.2 Language Arts - Explore and Respond to Liter 221 1.9.1 222 1.9.4 223 2.9.2 224 3.9.3 225 4.9.4 226 4.9.5 230 23.3 Language Arts - Communicating with Others 231 1.9.3 232 2.9.1 233 2.9.2 234 2.9.3 235 236 240 23.4 Language Arts - English Lang Conventions 241 1.9.2 242 2.9.1 243 2.9.2 244 3.9.1 245 3.9.2 246 3.9.3 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 300 300 What makes response to literature writing effective? 400 400 What is Response to Literature? 400 400 As you are reading a short story or a novel or even a poem, do you ever pause briefly and focus on your own thoughts about the author's words? In these moments you are responding to literature. Some literary works may evoke strong emotional responses from you, whereas others may stimulate your imagination or challenge you with new information and ideas. Writing about your responses to a piece of literature will help you to explore and develop your ideas in more detail. 400 400 How Response to Literature Fits Into Your Life 400 400 You respond to literature in various ways in your everyday life, though you may not be conscious of if. For instance, you might lend someone a book and encourage that person to read it. Or you and a friend (or a sibling or a parent) may have a discussion about a story both of you have read in a newspaper or magazine. During the time it takes you to read a novel, thoughts and feelings sometimes occur to you as you go about your daily activities. Perhaps you wonder what it would be like to know a certain character, or you fantasize about living in a book's setting. All of these are strong, valid responses to literature. 400 400 400 (Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook, Annotated Teacher' s Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997, 196-197) 400 400 Paper Options: 400 * Poetry explication 400 * Poetry analysis 400 400 Paper Expectations: 400 * MLA format 400 * Beginning, middle, end, and title 400 * Clearly articulated thesis (analysis) or focus (explication) 400 * Incorporation of textual support (including direct quotation) 400 * MLA documentation of poetry 400 * Present tense 400 * Correct integration of poetic terms 400 * Effective organization, including transitions 400 * Acceptable level of fluency 400 * Grammatical correctness 400 * Appendix -- include a clean copy of poem 400 500 500 When writing in the response to literature mode students will: 500 500 -- Develop and demonstrate critical poetry reading strategies and skills, 500 -- Develop and utilize prewriting skills and strategies, 500 -- Develop and incorporate drafting skills, 500 -- Develop and implement editing skills and strategies (peer and self), 500 -- State one clear thesis statement, 500 -- Utilize effective transitions, 500 -- Develop argumentation to effectively support the thesis, to include both direct and indirect textual support, 500 -- Document textual support using MLA format, 500 -- Recognize and implement effective organization of materials, 500 -- Write in the present tense, 500 -- Produce a final draft that meets standards of acceptability in fluency and grammatical correctness. 600 600 -- All students will be instructed on the steps of the writing process. 600 -- All students will be shown strategies for responding to poetry. 600 -- All students will be shown models of quality writing in the response to literature mode. 600 -- Each student will conference with his/her teacher to discuss the quality of his/her writing and to determine the steps necessary for improvement. 600 -- All students will receive written feedback on the quality of their writing. 700 700 Assessment of student writing in the descriptive mode includes student-teacher conferencing to determine successful completion of editing, as well as meeting standards for acceptable quality of the final draft. Each teacher will provide written feedback of the drafts and of the final paper. 820 820 Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook. New Jersey: 820 Prentice Hall, 1997. 820 820 Sample response to literature essays may include: 820 -- "Mystic Union and Mourning: Walt Whitman's 'Come Up From the Fields Father'" 820 -- "I heard a Fly buzz -- when I Died" by Jamie Lee Swift 820 -- "Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's 'My Papa's Waltz'" 820 -- "Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in 'The Fish'" by Becki Woods 820 820 820 All sample essays can be found on the eschool website in the SWW folder at .