13_Ways_Template

= "Your Text's Title" by Author's Name (Publication Date) =

// Type Your Name Here //
Type your poem here: as part of Way 2, you'll type your assigned text here--//precisely,// word for word, line break for line break, punctuation mark for punctuation mark.  Format it //exactly// as it’s formatted in publication. Do not just copy and paste; instead, type it precisely to engage with the text.  (Wikispaces doesn't work well when you copy/paste anyway.)  As you work through you project’s different “Ways of Looking at” your text, create links //from// relevant words and phrases in the poem //to// your relevant interpretive comments below--literally linking your interpretations to the text.  (To create these links from within your poem to your relevant comments below, see this page on how to create anchors, which "anchor" a link to comments within the same web page. If you get confused, revisit the bottom of the "Intro to Wikis" page.) By the time you’re finished with your project, your poem should have plenty of links from individual words and phrases within your poem to your relevant interpretive comments below.

Way 1: First Impressions (all of these subheadings are Heading 3)
 Here, type your first impressions upon initially reading the text.  Specifically, type a few paragraphs articulating your //first thoughts// of what it’s about, any questions you have about it as you initially read it, etc. This is a great starting point to see how your interpretation develops throughout the semester as you apply each Way. (For all of your typed paragraphs, use the "Normal" formatting on the dropdown menu.)

Way 2: Engaging with the Text
Replace these words with your early engagement with the text itself.  Start by typing it above, rather than copying and pasting it.  This precise typing of your text will engage you with every detail of the text.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Afterwards, read it aloud to yourself and perhaps to others. Have others read it aloud to you. See if you can find a good audio recording on the web (e.g., <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Youtube]), ideally read by the author, and link to or embed that recording. If you have the technology, digitally record yourself reading it and upload that recording. Then write a paragraph or two about the sounds you notice in the poem—alliteration, assonance, rhythm, rhyme, anything that affects sound. How do those sounds affect you? What do they bring to mind, and how do these potential meanings connect to the text’s meaning?

Way 3: A Point about Form and Its Relationship to Content
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, you'll type your analysis of this specific Way, applying to your assigned text what you learned in class about this concept or skill. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make sure to create a hypertext link from a specific part of the poem to each comment. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your readers will access this comment, then, not by continually scrolling down but instead by reading the poem above and clicking a word or phrase to jump to your application of this Way. When you’re finishing your project, delete unused comment holders. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For example, if you only have three instances of figurative language and there are four of these holders, simply delete the one you don’t use.

Way 3: Another Point about Form and Its Relationship to Content
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, type another analysis applying this Way.

Way 4: Unpacking an Instance of Figurative Language
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, you'll type your analysis of this specific Way, applying to your assigned text what you learned in class about this concept or skill. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> (Please don't include the markers of each move for unpacking figurative language; just apply them in one full paragraph for each instance.) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make sure to create a hypertext link from a specific part of the poem to each comment. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your readers will access this comment, then, not by continually scrolling down but instead by reading the poem above and clicking a word or phrase to jump to your application of this Way. When you’re finishing your project, delete unused comment holders. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For example, if you only have three instances of figurative language and there are four of these holders, simply delete the one you don’t use.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Way 4: Unpacking Another Instance of Figurative Language
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, type another analysis applying this Way.

Way 4: Unpacking Another Instance of Figurative Language
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, type another analysis applying this Way.

Way 4: Unpacking Another Instance of Figurative Language
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, type another analysis applying this Way.

Way 5: Analyzing the Setting
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, you'll type your analysis of this specific Way, applying to your assigned text what you learned in class about this concept or skill. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

Way 6: Identifying and Analyzing Point of View
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, you'll type your analysis of this specific Way, applying to your assigned text what you learned in class about this concept or skill. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

Way 7: Analyzing Complexity, Ambiguity, & Difficulty
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, you'll type your analysis of this specific Way, applying to your assigned text what you learned in class about this concept or skill. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; text-align: center; msospacerun: yes;">Horizontal Thinking: Connecting the Text to Wider Contexts Way 8: Considering Canonicity
Here, you'll type your consideration of the canonicity of your text, as you've learned about such considerations in this course.

Way 9: Biographical Context
Here, you'll type your connections between the text and its biographical context, as you've learned about this concept in this course.

Way 10: Historical and Cultural Contexts
Here, you'll type your connections between the text and its cultural and historical contexts, as you've learned about this concept in this course.

Way 11: Theoretical Application
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, type your application of a critical theory to your text by offering an interpretation of the text through the perspective of this specific theory. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What questions would these theorists ask of the text? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What answers and interpretations might they offer?

Way 12: Another Theoretical Application
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here, type your application of another critical theory to your text.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Way 13: Unifying Interpretation
Here, type your overall, unified, coherent interpretation of the text, now that you’ve looked at it from a variety of perspectives. You'll bring all of your interpretations together in two or three paragraphs that comprehensively but concisely interpret the wider vision you now have of the poem.

Works Cited and Consulted
Here, you'll type your MLA Works Cited entries for any works you cited in your project above, as well as any works you even consulted. To accurately document your process and to avoid plagiarism, you should always cite (parenthetically just after the information and through a Works Cited entry down here) words //and ideas// from anyone other than you//.// <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msospacerun: yes; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA;">