Week 43: College Reading and Writing: Major Jackson and Amber Goodwin
Major Jackson and Amber Goodwin: 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-seventh poem and
response in the book today, starting on page 97.
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 going on with the boy in the
poem?
2. What is the setting and why is it
important?
3. Why is mythic language used?
Exercise: Summarize the poem
Write a paragraph summarizing the poem
with quotations, in-text citation, and a Work Cited Page.
Example too-short summary, incorporating quotation and
in-text citation:
Brenda Hillman’s poem “The Family Sells the Family Gun”
tells the story of siblings getting rid of their father’s gun after “his
ashes...were lying” (87). The speaker questions what it means to own and get
rid of a gun in America, saying, “[w]e couldn’t take it to the cops even in my
handbag” (Hillman 88).
Work Cited Page
(for today’s poem)
Jackson, Major. “Ferguson.”
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
1.
What does
“Ferguson changed everything” mean (Goodwin 99)?
2.
What is the
debate in the response?
3.
What does the
question in the response mean?
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: Do you agree with
Goodwin that “Ferguson changed everything” ?(99). In what way? Does Jackson
agree with Goodwin? Closely examine the two texts and write an analysis where
you decide if you think the authors agree that “Ferguson changed everything”
(Goodwin 99).
Exercise: Imitation
Write a poem about an event using
mythical or fairytale language. Write from the perspective of something
unexpected, like the road kill in the Jackson poem. Use other elements from
Jackson’s poem that you admire to make your own poem stronger.
Homework:
1.
Summary of Poem
2.
Summary of
Response
3.
Analysis of Poem
and Response
4.
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.
Comments
Post a Comment