READER'S RESPONSE JOURNALS

"The Greatest Dying"

Introduction: Writing responses to literature is an integral part of understanding the ideas in the literature. Through the use of response journals or entries, you can ask questions about the literature, respond to characters' decision-making skills, make connections to your own lives, and make meaning for yourselves of the text you have read.

Procedure: Below you are given several different ways to respond in writing to the short story you have read. Follow these directions:

* Choose passages from the story to respond to.

* Copy the lines out of the book, place them in quotation marks, and cite the page number for the passage.

* Respond to the passage in your own words, using one of the reader response roles listed below.

* Write as much as you can, but no less than four       sentences.

Reader Response Roles:

* Straight Talker: Speak directly to a character and "give your two cents' worth". If you could stop the action at a particular point, what would you say?

* Judge: Evaluate an action or a decision by a character or characters. Do you feel a wise or a poor decision has been made? Why? What decision would you prefer to have been made? Why?

* Memory Keeper: Perhaps you remember a similar experience from your own life, about a time when you kept something secret (like Reid Locke did) and because of that secret, events began "to snowball." Describe that experience; explain how it relates to the story.

* Artist: What visual images come to mind as you read the story? Draw those images. Write also what your visual image means or represents in the story.

* Palm Reader: What has occurred that you consider foreshadowing? What do you believe will occur in the future? Why?

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READER'S RESPONSE JOURNALS

"The Greatest Dying"

Introduction

Writing responses to literature is an integral part of understanding the ideas in the literature. Through the use of response journals or entries, you can ask questions about the literature, respond to characters' decision-making skills, make connections to your own lives, and make meaning for yourselves of the text you have read.

Procedure

Below you are given several different ways to respond in writing to the short story you have read. Follow these directions:

* Choose passages from the story to respond to.

* Copy the lines out of the book, place them in quotation marks, and cite the page number for the passage.

* Respond to the passage in your own words, using one of the reader response   roles listed below.

* Write as much as you can, but no less than four sentences.

Reader Response Roles:

* Straight Talker: Speak directly to a character and "give your two cents' worth". If you could stop the action at a particular point, what would you say?

* Judge: Evaluate an action or a decision by a character or characters. Do you feel a wise or a poor decision has been made? Why? What decision would you prefer to have been made? Why?

* Memory Keeper: Perhaps you remember a similar experience from your own life, about a time when you kept something secret (like Reid Locke did) and because of that secret, events began "to snowball." Describe that experience; explain how it relates to the story.

* Artist: What visual images come to mind as you read the story? Draw those images. Write also what your visual image means or represents in the story.

* Palm Reader: What has occurred that you consider foreshadowing? What do you believe will occur in the future? Why?