Week 24: College Reading and Writing: Natalie Diaz and The Reverend Henry Brown
Week 24:
College Reading and Writing: Natalie Diaz and The Reverend Henry Brown
Natalie Diaz and
The Reverend Henry Brown: 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 eleventh poem and response in the book
today, starting on page 37.
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 do you think the brothers represent in the
poem?
2. What does the
speaker mean when they say “My brothers are too slow/for their bullet”?
3. What does the
speaker mean that the bullet is for “living brothers”?
Exercise: Summarize the poem
Write a
paragraph summarizing the poem with quotations, in-text citation, and a Work
Cited Page.
example too-short summary from two weeks ago,
incorporating quotation and in-text citation:
Kyle
Dargan’s poem “Natural Causes” tells the story of a boy who purchases a gun
“from a farm in Virginia” (31) from a farmer who “keeps his gaze down as to
remember nothing of the boy’s face” (31). The speaker of the poem insinuates that
the farmer has sold guns to other boys like this one, when they say, “His
customers rarely return older” (31).
Work Cited Page (for
today’s poem)
Diaz, Natalie. “Catching Copper.” Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens
Respond to Gun Violence. Ed. Brian Clements et al. Beacon Press, 2017.
Exercise: Questions for Comprehension of the response
- Who was the first person in Brown’s family affected by
gun violence?
- What incident of gun violence compelled Brown to take
action against gun violence?
- What does
Brown consider a grave injustice?
Exercise: Summarize the response
Write a
paragraph summarizing the response with quotations, in-text citation, and a
Work Cited Page.
Exercise: Analysis
Question for
analysis: Write an analysis where you answer the following question: How do the
bullets in Brown’s response refer to the bullet in Diaz’s poem?
Exercise: Imitation
Use an object as a metaphor for an issue in your life and
write a poem where you describe your relationship to it.
Homework:
- Summary of Poem
- Summary of
Response
- Analysis of
Poem and Response
- Imitation of
Poem
About this class:
In this class, you are welcome to
submit homework for a grade. If it’s not
strong enough to earn an A, I’ll give you some comments to help you revise it,
and let you do it over again. You have as many chances as you want to complete
and perfect the work in this class, and you are welcome to do more than one
week’s worksheet for homework at a time; ask me for sheets you’ve missed. Students who complete 15 weeks of graded assignments
and a longer paper can qualify for college credit. When you get close to completing 15 weeks,
I’ll help you get started on your longer paper.
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