Week 102: College Reading and Writing Cornelius Eady and Ronnie Mosley
Week 102:
College Reading and Writing
Cornelius Eady
and Ronnie Mosley: 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 fifteenth poem and response in our book today,
starting on page 50.
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 you of anything
from your own life and experience?
Exercise:
Questions for Comprehension of the Poem
1.
What is the effect of the punctuation
in the poem?
2.
What is significant about the line
“Unharmed to wherever” (Eady 50)?
3.
What is meant by the lines “In the fist
and fury you’ll long / for what you say you don’t need” (Eady 51)?
4.
What is the effect of the word “spell”
in the last stanza?
Exercise:
Questions for Comprehension of the Response
1.
What does Mosley mean when
he asks “Do we see ourselves as safe or in danger” (Mosley 52)? How does this
connect with the poem?
2.
What does Mosely mean by
“Our nation is better than accepting the fear of turning the wrong corner
because we choose to not address the source of our fear of what’s around the
corner” (Mosley 52)?
3.
What does Mosley mean by “The
best way to honor the lives of those I lost is to prevent it from happening
again” (Mosley 52)?
Homework Assignment: Summarize the Poem
Write a
7-9 sentence 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:
Cornelius Eady’s poem “Gun Poem” starts off with the speaker
remembering “that afternoon / My big sister, Gloria / Came to visit” (Eady 50).
The speaker then talks about an almost robbery, but Gloria, “with her / Pistol
in her purse,” thwarted the attempt (Eady 50). Eady ends his poem by saying
that in the heat of the moment “you’ll long / for what you say you don’t need”
(Eady 51).
Work Cited Page
(for today’s poem)
Eady, Cornelius. “Gun Poem” Bullets
Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. Ed. Brian Clements
et al. Beacon Press, 2017.
Homework Assignment: Summarize the Response
Write a 7-9
sentence paragraph summarizing the response with quotations, in-text citations,
and a Work Cited Page.
Homework
Assignment: Analysis
Question for analysis: What are some examples in Moseley’s
response about making a choices that have to do with gun violence? Compare them
to the choices that are talked about in the poem Use quotation and in-text
citation to support your answer.
Homework
Assignment: Imitation
Write your own six stanza poem about a choice
you make every day.
Homework:
- Summary of Poem
- Summary of
Response
- Analysis of
Poem/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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