PERSONAL RESPONSE TO TEXTS ASSIGNMENT



PERSONAL RESPONSE TO TEXTS ASSIGNMENT

Suggested time: approximately 45 to 60 minutes

Past Diploma Exam Topics:

• The significance of our memory of the past

• An individual’s attempt to secure the satisfaction of self-fulfillment

• An individual’s attempt to reconcile the desire to act independently with the need for security

• The effect an individual’s perspective has on personal beliefs

• The role that self-preservation plays when individuals respond to competing demands

• The role self-respect plays when an individual responds to injustice

• The significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance

• The interplay between fear and foresight when individuals make life-altering choices

• How acts of courage develop and nurture personal integrity

• The ways in which individuals struggle to restore honour and certainty

• The significance of idealism and truth in an individual’s life

• The nature and effect of ruling passions

• Living in the midst of conflicting forces

• The significance of our response to challenge

• The significance of our ability to be resourceful

• Pursuing an idea

• The way in which our perspectives influence us

• The effect of perseverance

• The circumstances that compel us to respond

• Our responses to circumstances that are beyond familiar experience

• The nature of adaptation

• The struggle to maintain identity through commitment to a belief, cause or a goal

• The meaning of self discovery

• Turning points

• Being an outsider

• The significance of personal choices

• The manner in which individuals respond to challenge

• Individual responses to significant dilemmas

• The influence of dreams, goals or ideals in individual lives

• The nature of threatening forces

• The effects of adversity on the human spirit

• Human isolation and its effect on individual lives

• The ways that an ideal influences behavior

When writing a Personal Response to Literature, remember:

- You are expected to reflect on and explore ideas and impressions prompted by the texts and the assignment topic.

- Support and develop your response with reference to one or more of the texts and to your previous knowledge and/or experience.

- You may respond from a personal, creative, and/or analytical perspective.

- Select a prose form that is appropriate to the ideas you want to express and that will enable you to communicate effectively to the reader. Do not use a poetic form.

If your response is clear, focused, organized, on topic, and supported with reference to the text or texts provided and to your previous knowledge and/or experience, you have done all that you can to be successful.

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The Assignment

What do these texts suggest to you about _________________________________?

Support your idea(s) with reference to one or more of the texts presented and to your previous knowledge and/or experience.

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