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Week 78: College Reading and Writing: Taylor and Salgado

Week 78: College Reading and Writing: Taylor and Salgado Tess Taylor and Renan Salgado: 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 poem and response in the book today, starting on page 156.   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.      Why is the setting of the poem significant? A middle school?   2.    ...

Week 77: College Reading and Writing: Soto and Grauwiler

Week 77: College Reading and Writing: Soto and Grauwiler Christopher Soto and John Grauwiler: 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 poem and response in the book today, starting on page 153.   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.      How do you think the line breaks contribute to the poem? 2.    ...