These close readings should cite a passage from the reading, and then analyze and interpret the passage. You should consider these open, free, and informal. This is the place to muse freely. I will not evaluate these responses in the same way I will your major papers. I'm more concerned that you are actively .
Satisfactory responses make a genuine effort to engage an important quote from our reading.
Unsatisfactory responses are slap dash efforts that invest little interest in the assignment. DSIR's papers cannot be made up or turned in after class. If you know you will not be in class to turn yours in, make arrangements to have someone else turn it in for you. Each week a new poem or prose passage will be posted on the web site. The other section of this course will also be contributing to the webboard, so it should make for a dynamic, useful interchange.