In class on Tuesday we discussed the poem "A Father to His Son" by Carl Sandburg. During that discussion, I modeled a close reading strategy to help you with "DIGGING DEEPER" in a text in order to make meaning. Based on our classroom discussion, answer the following for today's classroom assignment.
A. How did yesterday's close reading activity change your understanding of the text? B. How does word choice, figurative language, and repetition add to the overall meaning of this particular text? C. What did you learn about yourself as a reader through analyzing "A Father to His Son"?
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Garrett
2/26/2014 02:22:30 am
Go to my blog http://msusportsupdate.weebly.com/ A. The close reading really helped me. You can't really look at it once then know what it means. So it really helped me understand the text.
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Liz
2/26/2014 06:41:46 am
A. My whole understanding of that text changed yesterday. It made me look deeper into the text and actually look for point of view and what he meant with his figurative language. I actually started to go through a thought process that i usually dont go through when annotating.
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Jeremy
2/26/2014 02:23:44 am
A. Yes, it helped me understand it more when at first I didn't get it. The activity made me think about what I was reading more.
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2/26/2014 02:25:49 am
A) Close reading the text helped understanding the text much easier. By reading it the first time, it sounded like a conflicted father, wanting to help his son exell in life, as he is growing into a man. This was shown in the line, "A father sees his son nearing manhood, what shall he tell that son?" (lines 1 &2) As we dug deeper in the text, the life lessons and choices of words show how deeply he cares for his son, and how much he truely wants him to change the world.
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nick.m
2/26/2014 02:26:47 am
A) reading the passage over and over let me get a feel for the passage.After breaking it down and anotating it let me understand what the authur was trying to tell him readers.
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Austin B
2/26/2014 02:32:27 am
A. The close reading activity that we did yesterday affected the understanding of the text by reading closer every time and going deeper with the annotations we did.
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McKenna.
2/26/2014 02:33:26 am
A. Yes, the close reading helped me. It chanded my understanding by when I have an idea in my head and I will read the passage while thinking about the question or idea.
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Timothy A
2/26/2014 02:33:33 am
A. I was not here but close reading helps alot.
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Jacob B
2/26/2014 02:34:23 am
A. The close reading activity we did yesterday really helped me understand the text better. It really helped me see the text in many different ways then I normally do.
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clayton
2/26/2014 02:37:10 am
the close reading helped me by helping me understand the message and how it relates to the eq.
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2/26/2014 02:38:24 am
A. Yesterday, the close reading activity changed the my understanding of the text by actually feeling the love from the father to the son. I could see that he wished that he had some one tell him this when he was coming of age. Over all, this was very sentimental and sweet, it meant a lot not only to the son, but to the father.
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Morgun
2/26/2014 02:40:18 am
A. Reading the text more closely, helped me by giving me a better understanding it better. Before we read it real close, and annotated it, I could barely understand what I was reading.
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damien
2/26/2014 02:41:37 am
A.it helped me by understanding the text better because we looked over it and talk about it in class and it helped me understand the message and how it relates to the eq.
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Jake.R.
2/26/2014 02:41:49 am
A. It got me to read the pasage more than one time.
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Elenaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
2/26/2014 02:42:14 am
A- it made me understand the passage better like with the move advance words, like what they meant and also the context clues with it. It made reading the passage easier to understand.
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Raistlin
2/26/2014 02:42:47 am
A. It helps me understan all the different postions of the poem and how you can interpret the lines and the great ways on the poem
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Brianna
2/26/2014 02:43:28 am
A. The close reading helpped a lot, cause if you only read it once you won't know what it means and won't get it.
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Kaylee
2/26/2014 03:27:22 am
A.) Yesterday's close reading activity changed the way I understood it several times. It helped me look into the meaning of life advice and family matters.
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kensie grace.
2/26/2014 03:34:02 am
A. The close reading helped a bunch. If you were to only read it once you wouldn't get it or know what it means.
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Garrison
2/26/2014 04:16:26 am
A. The close reading helped because I really got to understand the poem. If I didn't close read, I wouldn't fully understand it.
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Taila
2/26/2014 04:21:38 am
A. The close reading helped me alot. It shows me how if you read it over and over then you get into it deeper and deeper.
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cammm<3
2/26/2014 04:24:25 am
a- The close reading really helped. When you just read once you dont really get the u nderstanding. Not even the second time, but by the third time you finally start to really understand and relate to the text and can make connections, etc.
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Victor
2/26/2014 04:26:03 am
A. I feel that many times we think we're reading closely, but truly we're reading passively. We're also not taking time to annotate what something means. Yesterday's activity helped us understand what it really meant to closely read.
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Ali
2/26/2014 04:29:34 am
A. The close reading really helped me understand the text better by reading it more than once made me realize what the text was really saying.
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Briana H.
2/26/2014 04:30:38 am
A. It help me understand the reading than normally when i read on my own.
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Jorge
2/26/2014 04:35:54 am
A. The close reading activity helped me understand the text better because the first time we read through it I didn't catch all of the figurative language in it. I also didn't catch all the life lessons until we were told to look for them.
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Tyler O
2/26/2014 04:37:05 am
A. It helped me because of reading it 3 times.
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Morgann.
2/26/2014 04:42:44 am
A.Yesterdays close reading activity made me start reading things three times to understand what i actually am reading.
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Bryce
2/26/2014 04:44:28 am
A: It changed and helped me by understanding it better, and you have to look deeply to understand it.
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Carson C.
2/26/2014 04:45:49 am
A. Yesterday's close reading activity helps me see other people's viewpoints of the story. By doing this it helps me see the true meaning behind what is being said in the text by digging deeper within the reading.
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TH
2/26/2014 04:46:07 am
A.it helped me understand that there were life lessons in the text
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Alexis I
2/26/2014 04:49:05 am
A. Yesterdays close reading made me understand that if you just read a text once you could miss a whole lot of things.
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JL
2/26/2014 05:00:37 am
A. The close reading activity that we did yesterday really helped me to look at the text in many different ways and helped me to understand it.
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A) Sometimes when we read books we think that we are reading closely but if we were asked to test on all of our readings, a lot of the time we would fail proving we actually read passively. Yesterday when I first recieved it I read it to myself and thought I read closely but after we broke it down in DIGGING DEEPER I was able to find more and more details I missed at first. This activity also allowed me to truly do close reading.
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Lexie
2/26/2014 05:46:26 am
A. Yesterdays activity helped as a whole. It taught me exactly what close reading meant and some strategies for close reading. The activity helped me realize just how important reading a passage more than once.
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Holly H.
2/26/2014 05:47:02 am
A. It made me think about all the different interpretations. It isn't a straight forward literal piece but it can be interpreted different ways.
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Ezra
2/26/2014 05:49:23 am
A. It really helped me get a bigger grasp on the text as a whole and it showed me things that I wouldn't have when just passively reading it. For example, I learned that the author put hidden meanings all over the text.
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Michael Okuda
2/26/2014 05:49:34 am
A. Yesterday's close reading activity helped me understand the text by looking at it in different angles. Even though it takes more than one time to read it through to closely read, I am able to absorb more and look at things I didn't think before.
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Faith
2/26/2014 05:49:41 am
A. I think it helped me realize that there are underlying situations and scenerios behind a sentence, more figuratively than literally.
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Lee S.
2/26/2014 05:51:09 am
A. My understanding changed because I dug deeper into the meaning instead just being a poem
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Emily
2/26/2014 05:52:42 am
A. Yesterday's close reading activity affected my understanding of the text because I was able to noticed things that I would usually notice.
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A. - It made me look deeper and not just at literal things. It made me contemplate voice, Point of View, and Theme. Our close reading really helped notice invisible detail. It helped me understand the understood meanings of things. It helped me find the Embedded meanings that were too deep for a first reading.
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Avery
2/26/2014 05:56:14 am
A. Yesterday's close reading activity changed the way I interpreted the story behind the poem. Whenever I first read it I just saw it as a bunch of advice, but after I read it over again I saw from a different perspective.
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Madison H.
2/26/2014 05:56:37 am
A: The close reading activity really helped me because, when we read, we don't really go deep enough into the text and don't truly understand what the text is saying or what it means, but when we did that activity, it taught me how to read deeper into the text and taught me what the text really means.
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Tyer
2/26/2014 06:34:13 am
A. It changed my understanding of the text by taking me deeper into the acctual meaning of the text, at first I just thought it was about a father talking to his son.
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Eleri
2/26/2014 06:36:34 am
A. The more we read it I started to dig a little deeper into it and get more of an understanding of the text.
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Jade
2/26/2014 06:38:58 am
A. By doing the close reading activity yesterday it helped me to understand the text better.
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Claire
2/26/2014 06:50:47 am
A. It really helped me reading the poem this way because reading it just one time aloud does not help me at all. I need to go over multiple times to really get deep in the text, so I liked reading it like this
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Patience
2/26/2014 06:51:05 am
A. Yesterdays activity helped me look into the text deeper. By reading it 3 times with 3 different purposes I was able to look at it in 3 different ways which helped understand it better.
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Audrey
2/26/2014 06:59:08 am
A. Yesterday's reading showed me that if you look at a text more then once you can find something different and more in-depth everytime. It also showed me that the Authors words may mean something ENTIRELY different then what it seems the first time you read it.
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Hannah
2/26/2014 08:22:34 am
A. Yesterday's close reading activity allowed me to dig into the text and pull out deeper meaning. If you read a complicated text once you are bound to miss several pieces of figurative language.
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Xavier Brown
2/26/2014 10:21:46 am
A. It helped me see the text in a whole new way by allowing me see it in a deeper level.
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Katie
2/26/2014 01:11:05 pm
A. The close reading of the text helped me immensely, to fully understand the text. Looking at the text in different perspectives really helped me realize the deeper meanings of the text. Each new perspective was like looking at the text through a lens, and each new perspective added a lens making the text clearer with each lens. The close reading technique really helped me fully understand the text.
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Suzanna Grady
2/26/2014 01:48:34 pm
A. The activity yesterday that included the closes reading of the text helped me to better understand the text. It showed me a deeper meaning of the poem and the possible stories behind it. It was easier to relate it to the essential question after reading it closer and gave me more of an insight.
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Marshall
3/2/2014 12:21:44 am
A. I was not here for the close reading activity.
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Bryce
3/12/2014 04:28:11 am
A) I understood it more, especially because when I had trouble my group was there to help me understand it more.
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