Jail McDonough

Week 17: College Reading and Writing: Richard Blanco and Ladd Everitt Richard Blanco and Ladd Everitt: Annotating, Summarizing, Analyzing, Imitating 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 We are doing the fifth poem and response in the book today, starting on page 17.   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 parts into your own words in notes in the margins or in your notebook Exercise : Questions for Comprehension of the poem 1.            Who is Blanco talking to? 2.  ...

Week 16: College Reading and Writing: Reginald Dwayne Betts and Samaria Rice Reginald Dwayne Betts and Samaria Rice: Annotating, Summarizing, Analyzing, Imitating 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 We are doing the fourth poem and response in the book today, starting on page 14.   We looked at the poem together in Week 7, before we had the books, but today I want to read it with the response by Tamir Rice’s mom. You’ll remember that Tamir Rice was the 12 year old boy who was shot dead by police in a Cleveland playground, where he was playing with a toy gun. Exercise : Read and annotate 1. Read the poem and response out loud and underline any words you need to look up 2. Write any questio...