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 * Reader Response Options**

The purpose of literary response is to enhance your understanding and appreciation of the literature that you are reading through personal responses and connections that will probe your own attitudes, feelings, and experiences. Ideally you will come to understand yourself and the work of literature in more meaningful ways because you are making those important connections.

Write a letter to a character in which you share some advice or insight about his/her/its problem. Write a letter to the author in which you pose questions or make suggestions regarding his/her work. Examine a motif, symbol, or other literary/figurative device in the work. Write a persuasive argument for or against reading the novel Examine personal connections you have with a character and a problem s/he faced. Write a journal/diary entry from a character’s perspective in his/her voice. Write about a personal experience you have had that is similar to one in the novel. Examine an interesting passage from the work. When you are less than half-way done reading, predict the outcome of the story. Define and analyze the main conflict in the story. Evaluate the novel in its ability to communicate something genuine about human beings and the world that they live in. Write a dialogue between you and a character. Respond to the work on an emotional level (gut reaction). Compare/contrast characters or any element within the story to those found in other stories or movies. Discuss the universality of a character’s problem. Persuade our school to ban the book in the library. Take an interesting line from the novel and use it as the first line of a 20+ line poem.

Responses must be neat and polished and no longer than 500 words.

You need to complete two responses for the “Personhood” Project, due Oct. 25

Please keep this sheet in your American Studies binder for future use.