Open Reading Responses

Another English focus will be in our reading responses this term.  We are trying to get past the literal level (the information you find directly stated in the text) in our responses, and work on developing deeper answers to the questions by breaking down the question, stating our general (or gist) answers, and then supporting our idea with some info from the text and also from our background knowledge.  Background knowledge might come from our experiences, or things we have read in books or in magazines, or things we have seen on TV, or things we have learned from parents or in class, or things we have found on the internet.  One component of this unit will involve critical media literacy, which means we evaluate the information we find on the internet or TV and decide whether or not it is a credible source of information, and what biases the author might have.We will look at how to best organize our paragraphs, and how to decide which of our ideas best answers the question and is most appropriate to our audience.  For more ideas and examples of what this means, look here: http://husky67.pbworks.com/Reading-Response.