Jail McDonough

Week 97: College Reading and Writing Kyle Dargan and Daniel Webster: 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 tenth poem and response in our book today, starting on page 31. 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 : Respond to Poem 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 y

Week 96: College Reading and Writing Billy Collins and Nicole Hockley: 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 ninth poem and response in our book today, starting on page 28. 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 : Respond to Poem 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