Lit 70: Contemporry AMERICAN LITERATURE| Jan 14

• ACTIVITIES TO COMPLETE BEFORE ASSIGNMENTS
• Overview/Lecture Week 1: Annotation and Close ReadingPage
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• What is Close Reading?- video (4:49 min)URL
• Close ReadingFile
• SQ3R Method of AnnotationURL
• Annotation and Close ReadingFile
This document goes more deeply into how to annotate a PDF using a computer. You can also annotate using Microsoft Word. Either method is fine; whichever is easier for you. Here is a breakdown of how to use Microsoft Word:
1) Open a new file in Word
2) Open a reading from the week, press Command and A simultaneously, go to “Edit” tab at top of page and select “Copy”
3) Return to your new open file and paste the copied text
4) Repeat with remaining readings
Once you have the readings in a running document, as you read, on the top of the screen you can select “Insert” and then “Comment” to add in-text annotations.

Journal #1: Weekly Readings
After reading and annotating the weekly READINGS, answer these questions about each reading, except for “The Psychological Benefits of Reading” by John Hawkins, in complete, grammatical sentences:
1) Consider the title. What does it tell you to expect from the reading?
2) What subjects and topics does the reading present?
Finally, please answer these questions:
3) Have you used close reading and annotation in the past and if so where and how?
4) Choose one reading that you have a personal connection to and explain why.

READINGS:
NONFICTION

1) “The Psychological Benefits of Reading”- John Hawkins

POETRY
2) “The Bones of My Father”- Etheridge Knight

FICTION

3) Short Story: “Yellow Woman”- Leslie Marmon Silko
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Silko_YellowWoman.pdf

4) Short Story: “There Are No Monsters on Rancho Buenavista”- Isabel Canas
https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/there-are-no-monsters-on-rancho-buenavista/

5) Short Story: “When Mr. Pirzada Came To Dine”- Jhumpa Lahiri
https://www.mothermcauley.org/uploaded/Summer_Reading_2016/Mr_Prizada.pdf

BLOG
6) “I Want to Live Out of Tune”- Alok Vaid-Menon
https://www.alokvmenon.com/blog/2022/10/2/i-want-to-live-out-of-tune