Jail McDonough

Week 83: College Reading and Writing: Natasha Tretheway Natasha Tretheway: 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 series of three poems called “Three Photographs” by Natasha Tretheway. 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 poems 1.      What does the speaker mean in I. Daybook April 1901: “What luck to find them here!” 2.  ...

Week 82: College Reading and Writing: Wrigley and Pollack Mindich Robert Wrigley and Jessica Pollack Mindich: 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 poem and response in the book today, starting on page 170.   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 speaker mean “from what they were into what they were n...