Reading Responses should be based upon selected required or optional reading assignments for that half of the course.  For each reading response, choose either the Article or History in the News format, depending whether you are using an article reading or news stories as the basis for the response.

i)  Article Format

Select an article from the required or supplementary reading list.  Write a well-focused commentary that combines summary and analysis.  What is the article's argument?  What are the author's assumptions?  What did you find most interesting about the reading, and how might you best respond to the ideas it contained?

ii)  History in the News Format

Each response should

• be based on two or more news articles that you can effectively link by theme.

• include the title and dates of the articles at the top of the page.

• offer your analysis of and response to the topics discussed.

It is fine to adopt a straightforward approach and pick articles about the same event, person or controversy for a mini-essay.  I would encourage you, though, to also consider entries in which you pair articles that you imaginatively link by theme.