Learning Outcome 3
I really enjoy annotating because like Susan Gilroy says, it really is like “creating a skeleton of a reading”. I believe I am doing a good job of active, critical reading. I chose Essay #1 to look at. By looking at my annotations above from the articles for Essay One, you’ll see I made many text-to-self and text-to-world connections while also connecting together others text we’ve read. I highlight important parts and make notes to myself so when looking for something, it’s easy to pick out. Gilroy really emphasizes the importance of “marking up the margins”, which I always do. My margins are filled with annotation with phases, summaries, questions, connections, etc. Doing this helps me summarize a passage. If its a longer passage, my annotations help me go back and find a certain part of the literature I might be looking for rather than reading it all over again. I really try to pick out parts of passage I think are vital, such as important key terms/ideas, ways I can make connections, and things I might question or contradict. I look for the main idea or claim and highlight evidence that can support it. I really look to pick out quotes that I find have a really great meaning to support the claim, too. You’ll notice my use of my annotations not only in my images, but also my blog post link posted above, its from the Safe Space radio. I incorporate the text-to-world examples of Teen Suicide in LGBTQ communities. I also incorporate a text-to-text example of Martha Hall by explaining how the Safe Space Podcast relates to Martha Halls visual stories we viewed through her books. I connected them because it was one story that many people could have viewed to create change, where as this one podcast in audio form could be the one story that many people would have listened to to create change. If you read more of my Blog posts you see that as the semester went on I even furthered my active, critical reading by making text-to-text connections from all literatures we’ve read throughout the semester. Like Gilroy says, “set course readings against each other to determine their relationships (hidden or explicit)”, this I’ve definitely grown in my by acknowledging how texts relate, but also differ.
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