Each night that you are assigned reading, you are also responsible to complete a quotation response assignment. Please pick out two important quotations from the reading and respond to each quotation in three to five sentences. Post these responses in separate blog entries. Please give the book/story and the page numbers from the reading at the beginning of each response. Come to class prepared to explain why you picked the quote that you did, what the quote means, and what the quote tells you about the story/book. I will grade your quotation responses on a √+, √, √- scale. I will let you know if I feel like you are slacking on these assignments, but otherwise, I will not normally comment on individual quote responses.
Quotation Response Example:
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Page 166.
1) “Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir my daughter he hath wedded I will die and leave him all life living all is death.”
Capulet is talking about death metaphorically as a person. He is saying that Death has hurt Juliet—that it has taken her maidenhood away—and that death is really his son in-law instead of Paris. Now that death has taken his daughter away, Capulet questions what he has to live for. Juliet was his last living child and now Capulet has no heirs, except for death itself.
