Jail McDonough

Week 69: College Reading and Writing: Naomi Shihab Nye and Stacey Newman Annotating, Summarizing, Imitating, Analyzing, Synthesizing to annotate: to make notes on something to help you understand it better to summarize: to put something in your own words to imitate: to create an original piece of writing based on something you have read to analyze: to consider a question on the text, providing supporting examples from the text to synthesize: to connect two or more texts in your own writing We are on page 128 of the book today. 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 sentences into your own words in notes in the margins or in your notebook Exercise: Questions for Comprehension of the poem 1. What is the importance of the capitalized letters? 2. How does the punctuation in this poem ...

Week 68: College Reading and Writing: Jack Myers and Khary Penebaker Annotating, Summarizing, Imitating, Analyzing, Synthesizing to annotate: to make notes on something to help you understand it better to summarize: to put something in your own words to imitate: to create an original piece of writing based on something you have read to analyze: to consider a question on the text, providing supporting examples from the text to synthesize: to connect two or more texts in your own writing We are on page 126 of the book today. 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 sentences into your own words in notes in the margins or in your notebook Exercise: Questions for Comprehension of the poem 1. What does the speaker feel split away from? And why? 2. How do you think the world can become “m...