Close Reading Close reading is an essential task that demonstrates key skills; it is used throughout the Language and Literature course. Specifically‚ it is used mostly in Part 4 (Detailed Study of Literature) where students complete an IOC (Individual Oral Commentary) on a text studied. Process Skills 1. Read the passage/extract 2. Reread it 3. Annotate for key areas 4. Plan a response 5. Write your response 6. Edit your response Understanding – show the teacher/examiners that you understand
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Act 3 Scene 1: A Reversal of Opression Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream deals primarily with clashing ideas about love‚ an oppressive patriarchy‚ and if love should be the basis of marriage. The play does however offer hints of a need to transform the culture of the day‚ and offers women a greater say in their love or lack thereof. In the third act of the play‚ the power women possess is truly expressed‚ even if it must come about due to a man’s oppression. Further investigation of this
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Close Reading There are those things in life that hardly take any time to become an expert at. Close Reading is not one of those things. Close reading can most simply be defined as the technique of taking a piece of writing piece by piece and hyper-analyzing every little bit of it. The concept may not seem too difficult and complex‚ however‚ most of the thinking behind it is metacognition. Metacognition is the word for thinking about the way you think. Both of these concepts are incredibly important
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I have chosen to do a “close reading” on the first poem in the book‚ “Land To Light On” by Dionne Brand‚ for Reading Journal one. After reading this poem‚ I cannot help but find myself correcting the English grammar in some of the phrases. Such as “If I am peaceful in this discomfort‚ is not peace‚ is getting used to harm. Is giving up.” It should be “it is not peace‚ it is getting used to harm. It is giving up.” Also the last line in the poem should be “My eyes are not mirrors”. Maybe the poet’s
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A Close Reading Exercise From: http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Literature/21L-003Fall2003/E3B42E8B-1A45-447E-938E-7CC3C79F6FC2/0/notes_on_close_reading.pdf What does it mean to read a text closely and analyze it? Why do we do close reading in literary study? The answers to these questions emerge more from the doing than the talking. Briefly‚ close reading is a basic tool for understanding‚ taking pleasure in‚ and communicating one’s interpretation of a literary work. The skills employed
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“Twelfth Night” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚” through comedic Sir Toby Belch‚ and side-kick‚ Sir Andrew Augucheek‚ as well as romantic hungry females‚ Helena and Hermia. Therefore‚ the question at hand is how Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream relate to one another in romantic and comedic genres. To repeat the words of Frye‚ “No two characters have a greater effect on the audience than the eccentric duo of Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Sir Toby Belch‚” for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” audience
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dass can encourage you and form the basis of a community that will help and sustain you. But that dass‚ as helpful as it was‚ is not where I learned to write. *itirg ike most-maybe all-vriters‚ I learned to write by and‚ by example‚ from reading books. Instead I answer by recalling my owu most valuable experienee not as a teacher‚ but as a student in one of the few fietion workshops I have ever taken. This was in the 1970s‚ during ny brief careLr as a graduate student in
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Witches’ Brew and Fairy Dreams: A Genre Study of Shakespeare’s Use of the Supernatural (Penn State University‚ English 444.2: Spring 1998) by Fred Coppersmith Near the end of the opening scene of Macbeth‚ Shakespeare’s three Weird Sisters proclaim in unison that "fair is foul‚ and foul is fair‚" providing us‚ as readers‚ with perhaps the best understanding of the play’s theme and the tragic downfall of its central character. That this revelation -- this pronouncement that all is not well in Scotland
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Treatment of Women in a Midsummer Night’s Dream The general treatment of women in ancient times such as the Elizabethan and the Ancient Greek era varied in great degrees from the treatment of women in the contemporary twenty-first century. In more ancient eras‚ women were generally viewed as men’s property and not as individual human beings. Women were not even allowed to choose their spouse. It was common that this type of arrangement was made by their family‚ and the determining factors were usually
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the essential events that occur in the woods whether on purpose or just on accident. He recognizes himself as a protagonist. "Thou speakest aright. I am that merry wanderer of the night." He purposely turns Bottom into an ass just merely for his own enjoyment and to help Oberon receive the Indian boy. Oberon is Robin ’s driving force and reason for his actions. If Robin did not have the influence of Oberon and the orders from him he may not have been such a vital fairy in this play. The fairy world
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