Thursday, January 10, 2008

Assessment - Indy Reading Project - December

Danielle - 5/5 Responses
Danielle, I'm a bit confused about the point of view response.  Remember, point of view is the vantage point from which a story is told.  Does each character tell the story in different chapters?  Or is there a detached narrator?  A narrator becomes biased if he or she (or it, lol) has something to gain by lying to the reader (maybe lying is too strong a word).  

The character response was strong, but the rest are a bit too short.  Let's pick it up a bit.

Alex - 5/5 Respones
Alex, pretty good responses overall.  I'm glad you enjoyed the book.  I did too.  It's funny, that's the first of four books I've read this year that were somehow tied to Alaska.  The last one just had a character named Alaska, so I don't know if that counts.  Anyway.  (We're going to work on proofreading skills, lol.)

Ashlea - 4/5 Responses
Make sure to fully focus on your response topic.  In the last response you say the character changes, start explaining it, and then just retell the plot.  Keep coming back to it. 

Re'on - 3.125/5 Responses
I like that last response (aside from the glaring spelling errors).  You raise a point, provide evidence and comment ("that shows maturity and growth").  Hopefully you'll be able to keep up with the responses now that you're rocking that new laptop.

Ashley - 3/5 Responses
Ashley, bit of progress this semester and a lot of improvement, but if you want that grade to keep improving you've got to do ALL of your work.  Nice job on that header.

Kaysha - 5/5 Responses 
Kaysha, way to raise the bar.  As I've said before, your responses are developed and insightful.  Keep it up.  




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