Q Reading Response Journal 3" Musée des Beaux Arts • Points 20 • Submitting a text entry box or a file upload This Reading Response Journal is based on your readings from Section III: LIVING WELL Chapter 8: Vulnerability and Suffering W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts Pieter Bruegel (the Elder). Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. c. 1554-1555. Panel painting transferred to canvas. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Links to an external site.). Visit the website for the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, (Links to an external site.)as well as this site: for more background about the image: Bruegel's Icarus and the Perils of Flight (Links to an external site.) Visit Khan Academy for an explanation of how art historians approach an analysis of the painting done by Goya in his Third of May, 1808. (Links to an external site.) Also, an interesting graphic novelesque take on the Icarus story. (Links to an external site.) 1. Why might Auden call this the "human position" of suffering? Has it another position? 2. How ought one respond to the truth Auden has identified? Is it reassuring or distressing? Does our recognition of this truth impose any obligation on us, beyond our "sailing calmly on" ? Rubric Response Journal Rubric (1) Response Journal Rubric (1) Criteria Ratings Pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEngagement 5 pts Exceeds: Student fully engages the assigned topic with breadth and depth of thinking that explores various worldviews 4 pts Meets: Student engages the assigned topic with less successful detail 3.5 pts Minimally Meets: Student refers to the topic but lacks sufficient development of ideas 2 pts Does Not Meet: Student attempts but does not successfully engage the topic 0 pts No Attempt 5 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeHumanistic Approach 5 pts Exceeds: Student is able to describe history, culture, values and/or aesthetics from the film or reading selection with confident understanding of ideas 4 pts Meets: Student is able to describe some of the relevant ideas from the film or reading selection 3.5 pts Minimally Meets: Student refers to the topic but lacks sufficient development of ideas 2 pts Does Not Meet: Student attempts but does not successfully use a humanistic approach to the topic 0 pts No Attempt 5 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeExplanation and Analysis 10 pts Exceeds: Student is able to explain ideas from the film or reading selection by applying multiple perspectives toward an examination of the meaning of the work and its relevance to humans 8 pts Meets: Student is able to discuss the meaning of the work to humans but perhaps without great depth or detail 7 pts Minimally Meets: Student can describe or identify how a text holds meaning or importance to humans but lacks great variety of expression 5 pts Does Not Meet: Student attempts but does not successfully explain thinking 0 pts No Attempt 10 pts Total Points: 20