Instructions
Its a book review ; The Hero With A Thousand Face by Joseph Campbell
Page number; 74-100
Each student is required to submit (through the Dropbox on Desire-to-Learn) nine reading reactions.
Reading reactions are worth a total of 45% of the course grade.
Students will write nine reading reactions over the course of the semester. Each reading reaction is worth 5% of the course grade.
Reading reactions should be at least 300 words and free of basic grammatical and spelling errors.
This means spellcheck is required. I will not grade papers with spelling errors or papers with multiple and basic grammatical errors (e.g., I’m not worried about split infinitives but I am worried about sentences that lack verbs).
I strongly recommend reading your paper out loud. If your paper doesn’t make sense to you out loud, then it should be revised so that it does.
Each reading reaction must:
Select one quote (no more than one sentence) from the text that you consider to be the text’s “thesis” or primary claim;
Provide the context for the quote (i.e., explain what the author is talking about prior to the quote);
Explain – in your own words – what the quote means;
Explain why this quote is the text’s thesis or primary claim.
Cite the page number for the quote. For example: (Campbell, 42) [not necessary for your reaction paper covering the Epic of Gilgamesh]
You do not have to provide a thesis that summarizes the entire reading. Focus on one part of the text (no more than a few pages) and provide a thesis for that part of the text.
No, seriously, please do not try to come up with a thesis that summarizes the entire reading. The goal here is to focus on one piece of the text and examine that piece in depth.
You do not have to provide a cover page. Just be sure your paper includes: your name, a title and a date.