What is a Literary Response Journal?
Literary Response Journal Literary Response Journals (LRJs) are reaction records you keep while reading. They are not complicated and will help you keep track of important points in the text as you read, saving review time later. Your goal is to make notes about points in the essay/story/novel/play/poem that you thought were important, interesting, sad, funny, confusing, etc., during your reading. The notes then serve to prompt your responses during discussions and to help you study for tests over the text. Sometimes you will do reading journals for an entire work but more often for only one section or various parts of the whole. You will need to purchase a looseleaf notebook and looseleaf paper for your journal because periodically you will turn in parts of the journal for a progress and/or grade check. The looseleaf aspect allows you to continue working while I have part of your journal. Please set up the format in your notebook this way: 1. Divide a page in your notebook in half lon
