Jail McDonough

Week 27: College Reading and Writing: Cornelius Eady and Ronnie Mosley Cornelius Eady and Ronnie Mosley: 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 fourteenth poem and response in the book today, starting on page 50.   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 is the effect of the capital letters that begin each li...

Week 28: College Reading and Writing: Espada and Wheeler Martín Espada and David & Francine Wheeler: 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 fifteenth poem and response in the book today, starting on page 53.   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 Espada mean by the bells “a world away”? Why are t...