5.4.2 Personal Response: Main Idea
Completion requirements
5.4.2 Personal Response: Main Idea
Prompts such as those on the previous page give direction about where to start working on a response. Consider these directions when first reading a prompt:
-
1. Focus on key words to understand the question and to find ideas or hints about how to focus the discussion.
-
Examples of key words and phrases in these prompts are
understand, respect, viewpoints, perspectives, morals,
and
termed an outsider
. Consider your understanding of these words based on your knowledge and personal experience. Knowledge of these words will shape an answer to the question. The dictionary definition of a word often introduces new
ideas about the prompt.
©Thinkstock
©Thinkstock
2. Consider texts you studied in the course that may provide support for your opinion. Such details may strengthen and enhance your discussion about your main idea.
- Consider what you learned from the graphic novel. What events, conflicts, or ideas from the graphic novel could support your main idea, or answer, to the question? What support from the graphic novel, whether you agree or disagree with it, could help you explain your idea in further detail?