Literary Response – Sec. 5
Guiding Question
Technology transforming our lives:
Adding OR Diminishing value?
Your response deals with the “Big 4”
1. Meaning
2. Codes & Conventions - a.k.a. Form
3. Connections
4. Judgement
1: Meaning
1. What is the meaning/message of each text?
2. How does each text relate to the guiding
question?
3. Establish the purpose and audience of each
text.
* BE SURE TO PROVIDE EXAMPLES, AND DISCUSS
THEM!
2: Codes and Conventions
Short Story #1
• Identify one literary
technique (give quote or
specific example)
• Explain how it is used in the
story (how does it affect the
message or the reader?)
• Is this technique effective?
Short Story #2
• Identify one literary
technique (give quote or
specific example)
• Explain how it is used in the
story (how does it affect the
message or the reader?)
• Is this technique effective?
Choose your preferred text
(the one you will use for the rest of this assignment).
•Justify / explain why you have chosen to deal with this text.
3: Connections
Text Connection
• Make a detailed
connection between
your preferred text and
another text.
– Book, poem, song, short
story, film, TV show, etc.
• Look for deeper
connections (ie: think
about similarities in
meaning or theme).
Global Issue/Event
• Make a detailed
connection between
your preferred text and
a global issue, or a
world event (can be a
historical event).
4: Judgement
1. Explanation of the quality of the preferred
text.
– Is this text well written? Why?
– What could be improved? Why?
2. Explanation of how well preferred text
addresses (answers) the guiding question.
*
Don’t just restate ideas from earlier in your
response!