Jail McDonough

Week 35: College Reading and Writing: Gay and Begg Ross Gay and William V. Begg: 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 twenty-first poem and response in the book today, starting on page 68.   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 the bullet crave? 2.      To what is the bullet co...

Week 34: College Reading and Writing: Alan Dugan Alan Dugan: 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 twentieth poem today. It’s a handout. 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.      Why do you think the poem starts with “Oh”? What’s the effect? 2.      Does the tone of the poem remain the same throughout? If...