Reader Response Letters (RRLs) Minimum 1 page, double spaced Participation Grade Reader Response Letters are letters

addressed to your classmates (Dear Class) in which you respond to the reading assignment in a variety of ways. If more than one text is assigned, your RRL should address all of them. When you respond as a reader, you react to the author(s) of the text(s) you just read. I like to think of reader response as a way to enter into dialogue with the authors you read. In academic contexts, we try to fully understand what were reading so that we can respectfully enter into that dialogue. When you write RRLs, you may choose to address one or all (or none) of the following questions whatever makes sense for you for the particular reading at hand. Do keep in mind that the purpose of RRLs is to respond to a specific reading assignment in a thoughtful way, in the spirit of learning. Your RRL also shows me that youre engaging with the reading assignments. Your RRL will help us, the class, figure out what we deem most important, helpful, or interesting about the reading. Thus, in your response, youll want to refer to specific ideas and passages from the text(s). Quoting from the text(s) and providing page numbers will help you write more thoughtful responses. Lastly, try to steer clear of summarizing the text(s): were more interested in reading about your ideas than in reading summaries of the text(s) weve just read. On what points do you agree with the author? Why? What does the author have to say that you like? Why? On what points do you disagree with or question the author? Why? What does the author have to say that you dislike? Why? What points make the most sense to you? Why? What points of the text are muddy to you, or confuse you? Why? How do you think this reading relates to our class? To your life? Why? What passages from the text do you want to discuss in class? Why? What passages from the text resonate with you? Why? How can you relate to the text or to the author? Explain.