Find and read the text on Winters Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Summarize the text: briefly (i.e. no more than 3 to 4 sentences) explain the characters, conflict, and major plot elements of the text to which you are responding. (REQUIRED)
Extend/Apply: grasp the ideas in the text and take them further. What is the author’s point? How is it relevant today?
Connect/Compare: Consider the ideas of this text compared to others we’ve read in the class. How do they work together to form a larger pattern or message?
Agree/Disagree: argue why the author’s views are or are not correct.
Discover/Interpret: Try to notice something others might not notice. Interpret (i.e. make meaning of) the text in a way that won’t be obvious to others. Think about symbols, imagery, allusions.
Question: Raise some intelligent, fruitful questions. You may want to answer your own questions. You can speculate by asking “What if . . . ?”
Inform: In response to the reading, do some research. Share relevant information, evidence, facts, quotations.
