Week Three with FELON, by Reginald Dwayne Betts
We are Zooming into two jails each week! One week we meet with a group of 20 divided into 5 Zoom rooms for social distancing, the next we meet with a different group. I'm so happy so many people wanted to sign up for this class, and that we were able to buy everybody the book! “Blood History” by Reginald Dwayne Betts: Annotating, Summarizing, Analyzing, Imitating Today we are reading the first poem in Felon, “Blood History,” on page 3. 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 words in notes in the margins, the white space