Week 75: College Reading and Writing: Smith and Pfleger
Week 75: College Reading and Writing: Smith and Pfleger Danez Smith and Michael L. Pfleger: 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 a poem and response in the book today, starting on page 147. 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 do you think Smith means that the bullet was “on its way” from birth? 2. How can a bullet have a ge