Composition and Reading 2: Close Reading and Annotation, Schemes and Mind Maps of Psychoanalysis

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Composition and Reading 2:

Close Reading and Annotation

April 30, 2020

Lesson: April 30, 2020

Objective/Learning Target:

Students will apply critical reading skills and theory to a

story of their choice in order to form a unique and defensible

statement about the chosen text.

Lesson: April 30, 2020

Learn:

Before we can write our thesis (our defensible statement that we are arguing for the paper)

and our outline (the list of bullet points that help us organize our ideas), we must annotate

the stories we have chosen and apply the theory we have chosen to gather primary source

supports that will help us strengthen our arguments. The best way to go about annotation is

to utilize the close reading strategies we learned about in previous lessons and use them in

tandem with a critical literary theory (like feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, etc.). Let’s

look at an example.

Lesson: April 30, 2020

Learn:

Yesterday, my example stated that I was going to do a feminist

reading of Octavia Butler’s story “Speech Sounds”. I know which

type of criticism I am going to do, so I would pull up the link that

was posted on feminist criticism from a couple of weeks ago (don’t

worry, I will post the other approaches to criticism in a later slide

in this presentation).

Lesson: April 30, 2020

Learn:

With those questions in mind, I need to do a second reading of the story

while looking for anything that would help me answer the questions

about feminist theory.

• Is the text narrated by a male or female?

The text is narrated by a woman who refers to herself as “Rye”

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Lesson: April 30, 2020

Learn:

• What are the attitudes toward women held by the male characters? Rye is treated as a sexual object by strangers in the text. In one paragraph, after Rye and other passengers had been ejected from a bus due to a fist fight, a man stares her down with the intent of assaulting her. “He gestured obscenely and several other men laughed. Loss of verbal language had spawned a whole new set of obscene gestures. The man, with stark simplicity, had accused her of sex with the bearded man and had suggested she accommodate the other men present— beginning with him” (Butler, 5). But she is also treated with kindness by the only named male character in the story, Obsidian. Obsidian tries to protect Rye from these men in the same scene, and offers to drive her to where she is headed on the bus...

Lesson: April 30, 2020

Practice:

Now it is your turn. Remember: read once for content and once for analysis. Take as many notes as you can, reading with your specific critical lens and answering how the story you are reading fits into a larger social, cultural, or historical framework. Take your notes on a doc or sheet of paper that is easily accessible so that you don’t lose them. ● Deconstruction Questions ● Feminism Questions ● Marxism questions ● “Close Reading” questions ● Psychoanalysis Questions ● Reader-Response Questions

Lesson: April 30, 2020

Wrap-Up:

In the next lesson, we will be using your annotations to make a statement that

you can support with examples from the text. I would highly recommend

reading the text twice. You want to understand this story inside and out in

order to make the best statement that you can about it.