Jail McDonough

September 28 I am Zooming into two jails with this worksheet--tomorrow I'm delivering books and notebooks and folders and dictionaries to the jail but people don't always have their stuff with them so I'm putting the text of the poem in the worksheets. We have been using old worksheets for a while, going through the summer, but now we will be on Week 123--224 students served so far, we will see how many new ones show up Tuesday!  “Ghazal” by Reginald Dwayne Betts: Annotating, Summarizing, Analyzing, Imitating Today we are reading the first poem in Felon, “Ghazal,” on page 1.  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 Exercise: Read and annotate 1. Read the poem out loud and underline any words you need to look up 2. Write ...

 We are Zooming into two jails each week! One week we meet with a group of 20 divided into 5 Zoom rooms for social distancing, the next we meet with a different group. I'm so happy so many people wanted to sign up for this class, and that we were able to buy everybody the book!  “Blood History” by Reginald Dwayne Betts: Annotating, Summarizing, Analyzing, Imitating Today we are reading the first poem in Felon, “Blood History,” on page 3.  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 Exercise: Read and annotate 1. Read the poem out loud and underline any words you need to look up 2. Write any questions you have in the margins, the white space on the page 3. Put tricky parts into your own words in notes in the margins, the wh...

 41 men and women signed up to read FELON with us in a weekly Zoom class--too many to make it work with social distancing and the classrooms available, so we are meeting with two groups, alternating weeks. Last week we did "When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving," and this week we are doing the first poem in the book!  "Ghazal" by Reginald Dwayne Betts: Annotating, Summarizing, Analyzing, Imitating Today we are reading the first poem in Felon , “Ghazal,” on page 1.  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 Exercise: Read and annotate 1. Read the poem out loud and underline any words you need to look up 2. Write any questions you have in the margins, the white space on the page 3. Put tricky parts into your own w...

Week 111: College Reading and Writing Herrera and Risher: 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 twenty-fourth poem and response in the book today, starting on page 81.  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 do you think is significant about the spaces between words in poem? 2.     What do you think ...

Week 110: College Reading and Writing Robert Hass and Jody Williams: 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 twenty-third poem and response in the book today, starting on page 75.  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 does the poem begin? And how does it end? 2.       What does the ...

Week 109: College Reading and Writing Vanessa German and Camiella Williams: 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 twenty-second poem and response in the book today, starting on page 70.  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 is the significance of the short, unfinished s...