Q Homework Instructions: How to Respond to Readings in English 1B This is what you need to know in order to complete your homework properly. You will be held accountable for completing your homework on time – failure to do so will result in an absence. Keep this in your binder so you can easily reference it all semester. For each short story assigned, you must bring two things to class: 1. Analysis Question Response: Write a response to one of the “analysis questions” at the end of the story (you may choose whichever question you like the best). Your answers need only be long enough to adequately respond to the question. 2. Theme Response: What you think the piece reveals or implies about the theme under investigation in the current unit. For example, reading “Sonny’s Blues” in the first unit, you will write about what you think the story communicates about the theme of “Culture and Identity”. In the second unit, you will write, for example, about what “Harrison Bergeron” communicates about the theme of conformity and/or rebellion. This kind of response will require inductive reasoning, in the sense that you’re using the specifics of a text to determine that more general message the story is communicating. (Your responses will likely be half a page to a page in length). * for stories that are not in the Literature textbook, you need only write a theme response, as there are no analysis questions at the end of each story.