* In the response papers, you are expected to write a short essay providing a commentary to some of the material that we have read in class up to that moment. The most successful response papers are short and focused: instead of trying to summarize the entire plot of an epic text like The Epic of Gilgamesh, a good response paper might focus on only one or two passages from the epic that serve as a good introduction to a theme that you would like to explore further, either because you found it interesting, or compelling, or confusing. <<For instance, you would be to try to take some of the provocative formulations of Derrida or of Negrón and see to what extent they resonate with some of the events and the motifs and figure that appear in The Epic of Gilgamesh.>> (Please just write on this topic)
* Grading criteria: Extremely effective at conveying its main goals and objectives, at pursuing them throughout the body of the essay, while displaying an excellent command of grammatical, stylistic, rhetorical, and scholarly composition conventions.