Week 104: College Reading and Writing: Tarfia Faizullah and Sharbari Ahmed
Week 104: College Reading and Writing: Faizullah and Ahmed
Tarfia Faizullah and Sharbari Ahmed: 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 seventeenth poem and response in the book today, starting on page
56.
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. To who or what is the
speaker saying “yes” in the first line?
2. What does Faizullah mean
“the dawn eats its own faith”?
3. What is “my wing” in the
last line?
Exercise: Questions for Comprehension of the response
1. How does Ahmed begin her
response? In what way does it put the response in conversation with the poem?
- How
does the word “children” in the first line of the second paragraph filter Ahmed’s
tone or attitude about the attack?
- According
to Ahmed, what is “a gun” in a world “where so many feel powerless and
small”?
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
too-short summary from a previous week, incorporating quotation and in-text
citation:
Kyle
Dargan’s poem “Natural Causes” tells the story of a boy who purchases a gun
“from a farm in Virginia” from a farmer who “keeps his gaze down as to
remember nothing of the boy’s face” (31). The speaker of the poem insinuates
that the farmer has sold guns to other boys like this one, saying “[h]is
customers rarely return older” (31).
Work Cited
Page (for today’s poem)
Faizullah,
Tarfia.“Aubade with Lemon and Sage.” 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 citation, and a Work Cited Page.
Homework Assignment: Analysis
Question
for analysis: In her response to Faizullah’s poem, Ahmed writes, “In Hollywood,
an influential arbiter of public sentiment, violence with guns is couched as
macho. A svelte young woman is rendered powerful and sexy” (58). How does
Faizullah’s poem represent the gun and how does that representation vary from
at least one other poem we’ve read for this class? In other words, what tone
does gun violence take in this poem? Compare it to how gun violence is written
in at least one other poem we’ve read. Use quotations and in-text citation in 7-9 sentences.
Homework Assignment: Imitation
Write
a poem where an everyday act, such as visiting a local bakery or going to your
job or calling your family, is written as a prayer or a song.
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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