Progression 2, Exercise 2
Due: Friday, 10/28 at 11:59 pm
Half 1: Select your essay and annotate/ studying methods
(Notice: You don’t want to decide on the essay you offered on.)
Select, as your focus, one among these potential essays:
● Terry Tempest Williams, “A Shark within the Thoughts of 1 Considering Wilderness”
● Anne Bogart “Context”
● Nuar Alsadir, “Clown College”
● Cathy Park Hong, “Stand Up”
These two apply to Four:55 ONLY:
● Namwali Serpell “The Banality of Empathy”
● Walter Benjamin “The Storyteller
Selecting your essay is your first act of interpretation. As an alternative of constructing a selection based mostly solely on what you assume you already know and agree with and fervently consider, select based mostly on what’s most intellectually stimulating. What idea(s) do you discover probably the most compelling, troubling, stimulating, stunning, pressing, problematic and/or obnoxious? The primary act of interpretation is deciding on an essay. As an alternative of selecting what you assume you already know, agree with, and fervently consider, select what’s most intellectually stimulating. What’s/are probably the most compelling, troubling, stimulating, stunning, pressing, problematic, and/or obnoxious idea(s) for you?
❏ When you could have chosen your essay, learn it once more.
❏ Go to the Progression 2 studying strategies– do any TWO of those studying methods in your chosen essay.
❏ Make a map of this essay– a visible illustration of how its components match collectively to make a complete.
❏ Please submit these studying technique notes and your map to Google Classroom with half 2.
Half 2: Writing
Write a 2-Four web page letter of advice through which you advocate this essay to a selected one who you assume must learn it critically.
Your letter ought to characterize the essay clearly and vividly to this particular particular person (assume they haven’t learn the essay). It ought to discover the essay’s moments of fascination in addition to its limitations, and the questions and prospects the essay raises for you. Your letter must also clarify to this particular person why you assume they should learn this essay– what you assume they are going to take away (and the way that pertains to what you’re taking away).
Whereas I’m calling this a letter of advice, I don’t need you to deal with commending the essay or flattering the author or your addressee. It’s best to advocate the essay to somebody who wants it– somebody who you assume wants to interact intellectually or artistically with the arguments and concepts the essay presents. It’s best to ensure you clarify why.
Your addressee must be a selected particular person. It doesn’t have to be somebody you personally know (although it may be). As you might be crafting your letter (and particularly as you might be assembling the element components enumerated beneath) , understand that you might be writing for this person– you need them to maintain studying the letter and to grasp what you want them to know.
❏ Necessities:
2-Four pages, double-spaced, 12 level font. MLA format– make it clear to your reader the distinction between when you find yourself quoting or paraphrasing from the chosen essay and when you find yourself advancing your individual concepts or responses.
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The core activity is described above, right here is a few FURTHER ADVICE in order for you it
Some issues your letter will want:
❏ A full however distilled and directed illustration of the essay itself (this may take a couple of paragraphs) (however it shouldn’t take the entire 2-Three pages!) . Quote from the textual content and contextualize your quotations.
The illustration ought to embrace some dialogue of the completely different parts of the essay, such because the essay’s
Argument / Concept
Objective/ Downside that motivates it
Voice or fashion
Construction or kind
Viewers of authentic publication / viewers the author invokes
❏ Reflection woven all through
Together with some or all of these items:
Some reflection in regards to the worth of the essay by itself phrases (Observe Goulish’s lead: what are the moments of exhilaration? What’s the window the essay affords onto one other world?)
Some reflection on the boundaries and limitations of the essay– the place do you see gaps? The place is there work that’s left to do? What are you able to see that the author doesn’t see?
Some reflection on what the essay helps you concentrate on/ challenges you to consider: what components are of worth to you (or are unsettling/ difficult to you) and why? What questions does it increase for you?
❏ And a thought of rationalization for the addressee about why you assume they should learn and interact with this essay. How may it help or problem them? What may it Help them see? What may it Help them do?
