Week. . . Two? 111 plus some Zoom classes with old worksheets and now "Ghazal" by Reginald Dwayne Betts.
41 men and women signed up to read FELON with us in a weekly Zoom class--too many to make it work with social distancing and the classrooms available, so we are meeting with two groups, alternating weeks. Last week we did "When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving," and this week we are doing the first poem in the book! "Ghazal" by Reginald Dwayne Betts: Annotating, Summarizing, Analyzing, Imitating Today we are reading the first poem in Felon , “Ghazal,” on page 1. to annotate: to make notes on something to help you understand it better to summarize: to put something in your own words to analyze: to consider a question on the text, providing supporting examples from the text to imitate: to create an original piece of writing based on something you have read Exercise: Read and annotate 1. Read the poem out loud and underline any words you need to look up 2. Write any questions you have in the margins, the white space on the page 3. Put tricky parts into your own w