DUE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2010,
@ 8:00 A.M.
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Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find," by Flannery O'Connor (pages 1185-1196 of our text) (NOTE: this is a change to our existing syllabus)
Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find," by Flannery O'Connor (pages 1185-1196 of our text) (NOTE: this is a change to our existing syllabus)
You may also enjoy an online audio of the story, read by the author herself: A Good Man is Hard to Find (audio) (read by the author, Flannery O'Connor)
Write a First Response to A Good Man is Hard to Find.
Write a First Response to A Good Man is Hard to Find.
You may use the "apple layers" handout to help you with your response, free-write a response, or use some or all of the following prompts:
*Consider the narrator's point of view -- how did it affect your response to the literature?
*Discuss the grandmother -- What kind of person was she? How did her behavior affect you?
Provide specific textual details and quotations from the story to justify and/or explain your response to A Good Man is Hard to Find.
Remember, a first response is not a summary -- use 3-5 quotations from the story and tell me how the story affected you.
First Response Guidelines:
*8.5x11-inch paper
*1-inch margins
*typed, double-spaced, Cambria 12 font
*minimum one (1) page; maximum two (2) pages
Upper left-hand corner of the paper, single spaced:
FIRST AND LAST NAME
February 24, 2010
Professor Melinda Roberts
Comp & Lit I: Spring 2010
Centered Title (all caps and bolded):
RESPONSE PAPER: "A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND"
i was reading the story and listening to the audio at the same time but the audio skips a good chunk of the story.
ReplyDeleteYes, I noticed that as well -- several paragraphs . . . well, it's an old recording, I think, but mostly I thought you would enjoy hearing the author's Southern accent and her own reading of the story :)
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