How to Write a Personal Response by Jennifer Gardner on Prezi.
A response is a critique or evaluation of the author's essay. Unlike the summary, it is composed of YOUR opinions in relation to the article being summarized. It examines ideas that you agree or disagree with and identifies the essay's strengths and weaknesses in reasoning and logic, in quality of supporting examples, and in organization and style. A good response is persuasive; therefore, it.
Personal Essay - Smoking Students read and discussed articles and a novel (Trash) and then wrote a personal essay on an issue they feel strongly about. Radio Talk This student selected the novel The Maze Runner for Book Club and then wrote a radio talk reviewing the novel. Short story - Lost and Found.
Personal Response to Hamlet by William Shakespeare. by Janani Ramesh, (17 posts) on April 8th, 2015. From the very beginning, I was very enthusiastic about reading “Hamlet” as it is known to be one of Shakespeare greatest plays. Although I knew bits and pieces of the story line, I had never read or watched the play. A part of the play I really liked was when the gravediggers were.
One response to Tolentino’s criticism might be that personal essays as they existed at the sites Tolentino wrote for, read, and edited were not exactly representative of the genre as a whole, and that, like any genre, the personal essay might encompass a million painful, extravagant examples of artistic failure along with its acclaimed successes.
Personal response encapsulates the absolutely sensible and sound notion that you should not just analyse intellectually but also respond emotionally to texts. Sadly, however, this then morphed into the somewhat happy-clappy notion that you should be ready, willing and able to explicitly relive these emotions when writing about them months (or sometimes years!) later. This is a bit silly really.
This Level 1 Achievement Standard requires you to write personal responses to at least six independently read texts, sharing what you felt and thought about the ideas in them with supporting evidence. In each of the first three terms you will write TWO logs, using a combination of class time and homework time. The deadlines for each of these logs is written below.
Essay Plot Summary And Personal Response. Plot Summary and Personal Response Books 1-3 Summary The first book starts with a conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon. The Achaeans had plundered a nearby city and had taken the daughter of a priest of Apollo. The priest came with gold to get his daughter back, but Agamemnon refused. The priest.