Month: November 2016
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Adetola Adedipe: Notes Reflection
When one says “Shakespeare” things that go through the mind include: sophistication and difficulty. Like anything, practice makes perfect and reading play-text is no different. If one annotates enough it almost becomes second nature. At first, reading Shakespeare text was challenging. However, doing a Shakespeare play every year in high school helped a lot with…
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Hilary James: Notes Reflection
When reading Shakespeare, there are certain steps I tend to follow in order to best analyze the text. While the order and specifics of the steps may differ depending on what, when, and why I am reading, the general idea remains. Before I dive right into the first line of a scene, I recap for…
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Malyuin Noor: Notes Reflection
I have never mastered the ability to take excellent notes while listening to lectures that many of my fellow classmates have. It is something I constantly struggle with. I feel this sense of anxiety trying to keep up with what is being said. So, a habit I have picked up while taking notes in class,…
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Bridget Thomas: Notes Reflection
When reading the text of Shakespeare I have found the over the years practice makes perfect. I am a drama major and due to this fact I have read a lot of Shakespeare over the last four years. This has influenced heavily how I analyze the text as well as the movies they inspire. It…
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Jordin Cummings: Notes Reflection
In order to properly evaluate my annotation practices when reading a play text, I decided to do what I did for my close reading paper but with Act IV Scene I of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In comparison to the start of the semester my note taking skills have greatly evolved. I am no longer…
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Anja Dörfler: Notes Reflection
I am an annotation lover! But there is a significant difference between my note-taking while close reading a text and my annotation while watching a film. When reading a play-text my pens are the most important utensils. One pen is not enough – I need several colored pens and highlighters. I have to admit that my…
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Zhen Deng: Notes Reflection
My annotation on a textual segment of a play begins with a simple reading of the passage. Most English students know firsthand that Shakespeare’s language can be confusing. Thus, in my first reading of the text, I generally try to answer a few key questions. Which characters are involved? Where is the scene taking place?…
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Natasha Krahn: Notes Reflection
My notes for texts/plays tend to be organized chaos. I try to keep my notes that I make within the book/script quite organized, and I tend to do that by colour coating my notes, like a pink pen might mean that I am talking about the rhyme scheme and a red pen means I’m talking…
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Marisol Calzada: Notes Reflection
Note taking for me has always been fairly difficult. In grade school I always struggled with finding a note taking style that worked for me; I remember using a different style of note taking every month along with different pens, highlighters, tabs, etc. Nothing seemed to work until I got into university. University courses made…
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Katarina Nedeljakova: Argument Reflection
Until I started taking university level English classes, I never truly appreciated the art of annotating text and more broadly, note taking as a whole. As a child, I have always been told that books were to be read and not written in. However, as I started reading more texts, mostly those considered “difficult” (such…