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Here's what you need to do to complete this first assignment:
To begin I'd like you to read the Student's Guide to Genius. Read how to set up an account, and take special note of the "Guidelines, Tips, and Tricks" section on how to annotate texts.
Set up your account at Rap Genius.
When you've created your account, find our class roster page, and annotate your name here to get started.
Next I'd like you to look at some poems we've studied that have really effective annotations.
Now you're ready to start annotating! Here's your assignment:
Now go to our class collection of poems on Poetry Genius. You should see a list of most of the poems from the poetry packet we've been working with. Click on some poems you like:
1. Choose a poem you like, and create your first annotations. Follow the guidelines at Poetry Genius, and concentrate on highlighting something of interest. Highlight only a short piece of the text--a word or a phrase, and no more than a couple of lines at a time. You have lots of options for annotation! Here are some possibilities:
* Apply and expand on a key term, concept or literary technique you see in the poem.
* Apply links, images, or multimedia to help show us something mentioned in the poem, or help explain an interesting source or context. (At least one of your annotations should do this.) When your images aren't from a commons resource like WikiCommons, please provide a brief description and a link to indicate their source, as in: "An image of a giant egg from the Incredible Edible Egg site, http://www.incredibleegg.org ." One or two images is probably sufficient for a single annotation.
* Identify a connection with a related poem or related material and provide a link.
* Comment on the structure of the poem.
*Comment on a tension you see in the poem.
* Point out something of interest, or comment and expand on each other's annotations. Raise a question, help clarify a point. For now, do this by adding to a fellow student's annotation.
2. Write at least five annotations by the end of the day Thursday, on any of the poems you like. Add at least one picture to an annotation, and be sure to cite source appropriately if necessary as noted above. You may write more annotations if you like. I'll review these as a quiz grade, and I'll be looking for the following:
--Accuracy of your annotations: If there's something wrong, I'll review it and ask that you fix it.
--Helpfulness and thoughtfulness of your annotations: Are you showing us something interesting that helps readers to engage with the language and ideas in this poem?
--Clarity and expression: Please proofread carefully so others can follow it, and remember that this is a public forum.
--Level of analysis: Throughout your annotations, did you attend to both the ideas that are created and the techniques that the author used to create those ideas?
In case you're wondering, extra credit is definitely possible here, depending on the quality and quantity of your annotations. This first exercise is due by the end of class Thursday 12/4.
The next assignment (building on this one) will be with a Robert Frost poem. It will be more in depth and your close read of a single poem. This will be a resource for the entire class to use as we study Frost's poetry together.
Have fun!
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