Possible Focuses for a Non-Fiction Reading Response

- Author's bias, and how you know
- Images/Imagery, especially repeated ones that become symbolic
-Whose perspective is included/Who is quoted and whose isn't, and why
-Author's tone
-Word choice and how it affects readers
-Relationships between claims and counterclaims
-Evidence the author uses to prove point
-Significance of small details
-Author's purpose
-Audience and why

-Unpack lines that use loaded words

-Analyze the emotional effect the author intends

-Author’s use of evidence

-Analyze the portrayals of people and objects/ topics in the text

-Whose perspective is included/excluded and why

-Main idea and supporting ideas

-Treatment of controversial issues

-Tone/attitude of the author

-Repetition and purpose

-Rhetorical devices

-Text to world connections/how the text fits into larger topics

-Figurative language and its effects

Due Dates for Reading Responses 2017 - 2018

Ways to Plan a Reading Response - Compiled list of 803, 812, and 813's ideas

803's Ideas:
-List ideas for each paragraph-Create a web or chart-Choose your evidence/quotes
-Plan your topic sentences (supporting ideas)
-Read story again considering your claim, maybe add annotations
-Free-write a little about each piece of evidence
-Decide on the order of ideas/quotes
-Look back at annotations, synthesis page, notebook
-Try out a few different hooks
-Create a traditional outline (I, II, III, A, B, C)
-Create a boxes and bullets outline

812's Ideas:

-Create a “boxes and bullets” outline

-Plan your topic sentences

-Finalize your claim

-Choose your quotes

-Create a plot mountain

-Review your annotations – highlight ones that are relevant to your claim

-Draft a few possible hooks

-Plan your body paragraphs

-List ideas to include in each paragraph

-Recheck the rubric

-Plan text-to-world connection for conclusion

-Align your evidence with your claim; revise claim if necessary

-Make a traditional outline (I, II, III, a, b, c)

-Create webs

813's Ideas
-Create a “boxes and bullets” outline

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-Choose your evidence/quotes

-Draft a few possible hooks

-Make a list of ideas to include

-Decide what ideas go in what paragraphs

-List other details from the text

-Re-check the rubric

-Add more annotations to the text (related to claim)

-Reread the story/text

-Plan your topic sentences

-Start selecting transitions

All-star synthesis pages on "Ashes" and "Faithful Elephants" from Round 1!!

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