Week 90: College Reading and Writing: Jimmy Santiago Baca and Antonius Wiriadjaja
Week 90:
College Reading and Writing: Jimmy
Santiago Baca and Antonius Wiriadjaja
Jimmy Santiago
Baca and Antonius Wiriadjaja: 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 second poem and response in our book today,
starting on page 3.
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 the form doing for the poem?
2.
What is the length of the poem doing
for the poem? Where does it bring the reader?
3.
How is it “harder to have hope” (Baca
6)?
Exercise:
Questions for Comprehension of the Response
- What happened to
Antonius?
- Who helped him?
What happened to them?
- Why doesn’t
Antonius want us to think of the people in this story as “them”?
Exercise: Summarize the Poem
Write a
paragraph summarizing the poem with quotations, in-text citation, and a Work
Cited Page.
Example Summary: Too short, but incorporates quotation and
in-text citation:
In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem “Morning Shooting,” Baca
remembers a shooting outside his house and how he and his wife responded. While
911 said “Let the bitch die,” and the neighbors plan to build a wall “rimmed
with knife blades,” Baca imagines the shot man “on his way to work” as a baby
and young person (Baca 4-7). Finally, he reflects on Trump’s “war on
immigrants” during a walk, thinking of this “day of all-out launching of
racism” (Baca 8-9).
Work Cited Page
(for today’s poem)
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. “Morning
Shooting” Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence.
Ed. Brian Clements et al. Beacon Press, 2017.
Exercise: Write a
response to this poem. What are your first impressions? How do you connect or
disconnect to the subject and speaker? Does the poem remind you of anything
from your own life and experience?
Exercise: Summarize the response
Write a paragraph
summarizing the response with quotations, in-text citations, and a Work Cited
Page.
Exercise: Analysis
Question for analysis: Which of these, the poem or the response,
did you find more emotionally affecting? Why? Quote both texts in your work.
Exercise: Imitation
Write your own poem or short prose piece about
something that makes you angry. Choose elements of the poem by Baca or the
prose piece by Wiriadjaja to help shape your piece. For example, you may choose
to put your poem across multiple pages with short lines, like Baca, or end with
a prayer, like Wiriadjaja.
Homework:
- Summary of Poem
- Summary of
Response
- Analysis of Poem
and Response
- 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.
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