impressions

Using the format of a blog, comment at the end of each reading session on both the substance of your reading and its effects on you. Record pages or sections on which you are commenting. Record your impressions of characters, events, conflicts, descriptions. Record responses to your own questions. Record questions about the novel as you read. Respond to course focus questions. Make sure you take the time after, during, or before each reading session to make an entry into your blog. 10-15 sentences per reading session might be enough. Make each entry interesting, personal, intelligent.

Examples of Student Responses to English 30-1 Diploma The Personal Response Assignment from June 2006: (literature in the question is included in the exam)

The puppet master in Keith Carter’s “Pinocchio” manipulates the marionette’s strings, giving it the illusion of free will. In the poem “Come In,” the speaker resists the allure of an appealing opportunity.

from Republic, BOOK VII And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold!