Step 1: In your journal, do a ten minute freewrite in which you summarize the peer-reviewed secondary source you found this week.
Step 2: Choose a quote from the source that you might want to use in your final paper. Record it in your journal. Then, spend five minutes “talking back” to the quote. Pretend you are having a conversation with the author. What would you say to him or her about that quote?
Step 3: Choose a quote from the source that you disagree with. Record it in your journal, then spend five minutes “talking back” to the author in the same manner as Step 2.
Step 4: Now, “talk back” to the source as a whole. What questions would you ask the author if you were having a conversation with him or her? What points would you challenge? If the source is not about your movie specifically, how could the author use your movie as an example?
Once you’ve done the exercise above, condense your best points into your 250 word blog post for tonight.
