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1.10 Form personal responses to independently read texts (4 CREDITS)

For this standard you will need to complete 6 responses to texts that you have chosen yourself. You must respond to at least 2 novels (or other extended texts like biographies or novellas) and you may not respond to more than 2 visual texts (eg: films or short films, documentaries, etc). A selection of short stories and poems is available in class. Check with your English teacher to see if your self-selected texts are appropriate.

In order to be perceptive and gain excellence, try to think genuinely about the ideas you find in the text. Give real life examples from your own experiences in your response. Be candid and honest. Think deeply about how the issues in the book apply to what is being experienced by you now, by people in the world today, or historically. How might the ideas from the text apply to the future? Humanity? Your own family or neighbourhood? Be specific as you outline examples or draw conclusions.

A selection of short stories that are suitable for Level One:

• On the Sidewalk Bleeding by Evan Hunter
• The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty
• The Last Spin by Evan Hunter
• Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl