While your aim in the reading response should be to provide evidence that you have engaged with the text, the assignment here does not entail providing a thorough summary of it. Instead, while you should mention things in the reading, your goal should be to express your thoughts about it and/or questions that you have in relation to it. If you are confused, do your best to articulate that confusion, saying what it is about the text that is puzzling you and so on. Don’t feel the need to try to research elsewhere about what the author is trying to say. Further, I would recommend holding off on reading the responses of other students until after you have written your own for the week. The responses will be assessed on the basis of the degree to which you are genuinely engaging with the material (as opposed to how well you are understanding it).
Choose a relatively short passage from the text that you find interesting (or perhaps bewildering). Quote that passage and comment on it in a way that displays critical thinking. This may be to point out things that are being taken for granted, to raise questions you aren’t sure how the author would answer, to connect the thoughts expressed in the reading to something else in the world, or to consider the issue from a different perspective, etc.
Grading Rubric:
A: Posts a response to the reading each week over the course of the semester, quoting a portion of the text and displaying critical thinking in relation to the ideas and themes therein, including questions that may spur further discussion of the material
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