300-400 words
This response should be 300-400 words in length.Essentially the Informal Responses are graded as complete or incomplete. If your response meets the requirements (word length and addresses the correct assignments from that week) you will receive 25 points. If your response meets the requirements. but does not include a word length, you will receive 20 points. If your response does not meet the length requirement and/or focuses on the wrong topic, you will receive 0 points. This week you may comment on any aspect of what you read this week: Lucy Terry’s “Bars Fight,” (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.1746. David Walker’s “Appeal (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.,”1829. Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s “An Antebellum Sermon (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.,”1896Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die, (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” 1917Amiri Baraka’s “An Agony. As Now (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.,” 1964Lucille Clifton’s “The Thirty Eighth Year (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.,” 1974Rita Dove’s, “The Secret Garden, (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” 1989
