Jail McDonough

Week 20: College Reading and Writing: Brian Clements and Po Kim Murray Brian Clements and Po Kim Murray: 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 eighth poem and response in the book today, starting on page 25.   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.      What does it mean that the “private investigator” “may have been a pimp”? 2.      This poem i

Week 19: College Reading and Writing: Jericho Brown and Michael Skolnik Jericho Brown and Michael Skolnik: 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 seventh poem and response in the book today, starting on page 22.   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.      What does Brown trust “maggots” to do more than “an officer of the law”? 2.      In this poem,