Jail McDonough

Week 101: College Reading and Writing Rita Dove and Marie Delus: 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 fourteenth poem and response in our book today, starting on page 46. 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 d...

Week 100: College Reading and Writing Mark Doty and Pastor Michael McBride: 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 thirteenth poem and response in our book today, starting on page 42. 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 c...