Don’t forget for Tuesday: another visit to the Reading Room and another entry into your reading journal. (To add an entry to your reading journal – – simply copy and paste the reading journal table into your existing google doc. You can find a copy of that rubric below or here.)
For Thursday, we’ll talk about Cheever’s “The Swimmer” – – which can be found in our course textbook.
Short Story Rubric (English 524)
| Title and author of short story: |
| Location (url or journal info) of short story: |
| General: What was the most confusing, irritating, moving moment in the story? What made this particular moment confusing, irritating, and/or moving? |
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| Character: who is the protagonist? What are his/her/their goals? What conflicts do they face? What are their main character traits? How do they change? |
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| Plot: what are the main events in the story? Which story event gets the most time/space in the text? How does the story resolve its plot? |
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| Setting: social, historical location of story? Important details in the description of the setting(s)? How are different settings related to each other? |
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