critical response esssay

These response papers should be no more than 2 pages, double-spaced.  
In your papers, I am looking for a critical response rather than a “weekly summary.”  My goal was to get you thinking about the problems in the arguments or holes in the facts and offer constructive ways to remedy them.  Do not simply turn in a summary of what you read.  Although this may be useful to you as a first step, I am grading you on your ability to critically analyze the material in the way a scholar would critique an article
 *i’ve attached a pdf of example critical response papers and how it should somewhat look like*

Tips to get started:
Pick up one or two themes or arguments from the readings and really analyze them.
Evaluate the readings rather than editorializing.
Think about the work in relation to other theories or empirical findings we’ve read.
Connect the work’s methodology to other methodologies.
Think about what “conventional wisdom” holds – does the work contradict this?
 
Some questions to consider:
Did the authors say all there was to say?  
What did they miss?
What should they have included?
Can you suggest counter factuals?
What are the implications for studying the concept or issue the way they did?
Did they measure their variables correctly or sufficiently?
What limits are inherent in how the variables are measured or how the study is designed?  How might it change if we change the approach or choose different data?
Does what they are talking about jell with the “real world”?
Are the conclusions generalizable?
Questions along these analytical and deconstructive lines are what I am looking for in your papers rather than a summary of what you thought about the readings.   Ultimately, these short papers should give you a sense of what kinds of questions to ask in general and specifically a theoretical way to begin your term paper/ project for this class.
links to the three articles:
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-social-class-and-why-does-it-matter-3026375
https://www.newsweek.com/there-no-such-thing-race-283123
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22245223/black-middle-class-racism-reparations