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Week 15: Aziza Barnes and Judi Richardson from Bullets into Bells

Week 15: College Reading and Writing Aziza Barnes and Judi Richardson: 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 third poem and response in the book today, starting on page 11. 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 are some of the things you think about when you hear this speaker saying “the/body    does its job just one//function to re...

Week 14: Jimmy Santiago Baca and Antonius Wiriadjaja from Bullets into Bells

Week 14: College Reading and Writing Jimmy Santiago Baca and Antonius Wiriadjaja: Annotating, Summarizing, Imitating, Analyzing, Synthesizing to annotate: to make notes on something to help you understand it better to summarize: to put something in your own words to imitate: to create an original piece of writing based on something you have read to analyze: to consider a question on the text, providing supporting examples from the text to synthesize: to connect two or more texts in your own writing We are doing the second poem and response in the 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 sentences into your own words in notes in the margins or in your notebook Exercise : Questions for Comprehension of the poem 1. What happened to the kneecaps on p. 4 2....