Have students then provide evidence that supports the different analyses. Ask students to write alternative endings to works they have studied and present them orally to the class. Invite students to write letters to, or stories or poems about, characters they identify with. Have students write character studies. Ask students to each create a scene that does not exist in a play that has been studied.
Students record their responses and submit their response logs.
In order to demonstrate these outcomes, students must be confident that their ideas, experiences, and works are valued. Assess students' response journals for changes in the confidence and sophistication of their personal responses, the connections they make with the texts they read, and their uses of evidence. For example, they might create symbol systems they can use in the margins of their notebooks or other work to indicate when they have provided evidence of a particular criterion. Next Page Copyright 1996 . All Rights Reserved.