ENGL 121 D – Spring 2007
Assignment: Active Reading Response to Williams
Due: Friday, March 30 (by 5 PM)
Mechanics: minimum 1 page; Times New Roman; 12 pt; double-spaced; 1” margins; MLA format
We have read Raymond Williams’s Keyword entries on Charity, City, Country, Culture, Community, Hegemony, Ethnic/Racial, Sex, and Violence. For this short paper, use your active reading notes to respond to one of Raymond Williams’s Keywords. To do this, first use the Handout: Active Reading to make notes on your reading. Then, answer the following prompts with your own ideas and responses to the text.
1. Mention in your response one or two of the main ideas or important points in the entry.
2. Define one or two words you didn’t know. Briefly write about one or two people you didn’t know.
3. Mention one idea from the text that interests you and/or one idea that you find suspect or that may have changed since Williams wrote these entries.
4. Mention one idea from the text that may be useful for thinking about society, urbanity, or social categories. Or discuss how the entry as a whole may shape help you to think about an issue that interests you.
5. Write one critical question about the text – this may be something that confuses you or something that you want to investigate more or something that you want to bring up in class in the form of a question that the text inspired in your thoughts.
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