Jail McDonough

Week 74: College Reading and Writing: Liz Rosenberg and Patricia Maisch Annotating, Summarizing, Imitating, Analyzing, Synthesizing to annotate: to make notes on something to help you understand it better to summarize: to put something in your own words to imitate: to create an original piece of writing based on something you have read to analyze: to consider a question on the text, providing supporting examples from the text to synthesize: to connect two or more texts in your own writing We are on page 145 of the book today. Exercise: Read and annotate 1. Read the poem and response out loud and underline any words you need to look up 2. Write any questions you have in the margins or in your notebook 3. Put tricky sentences into your own words in notes in the margins or in your notebook Exercise: Questions for Comprehension of the poem 1. What will we “never know” (Rosenberg 145)? 2. How do questions work in the poem? 3. Who is

Week 73: College Reading and Writing: Roger Reeves and Yvonne Crasso Annotating, Summarizing, Imitating, Analyzing, Synthesizing to annotate: to make notes on something to help you understand it better to summarize: to put something in your own words to imitate: to create an original piece of writing based on something you have read to analyze: to consider a question on the text, providing supporting examples from the text to synthesize: to connect two or more texts in your own writing We are on page 143 of the book today. Exercise: Read and annotate 1. Read the poem and response out loud and underline any words you need to look up 2. Write any questions you have in the margins or in your notebook 3. Put tricky sentences into your own words in notes in the margins or in your notebook Exercise: Questions for Comprehension of the poem 1. How does the word choice work in this poem? 2. What do you think will “linger inside a suicide”