While I was reading an excerpt about “Fuku” from a story named “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, I could tell the word “Fuku” was a curse that existed among the old world and the new world when I read the first paragraph. I understood most of the wording and language techniques that were used in the excerpt, except for the first two sentences where I had a hard time understanding. When I read the sentences that the author, Oscar Wao used to start off the story with the introduction by saying this in the very first section of the excerpt, “carried by the enslaved” and “that it was the death bane of the Tainos”, I found it very difficult to understand what the first two sentences meant by this. What made it difficult was this phrase in one of the two sentences, “death bane”, and it was an unfamiliar phrase to me and it made the whole sentence difficult for me to understand. The phrase “death bane” in the introduction was bothering me, and as I was looking at it and thinking about it, I had an idea that the phrase meant mass murder, but I believed it meant something else and it started to confuse me. “Carried in the screams of the enslaved” was what I also had trouble understanding because I didn’t know if this sentence referred to the Tainos that were slaves before the new world.
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READ and ANNOTATE : For Thursday, you will read an excerpt from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao about something called a “Fuku.” You can find this reading on our Perusall site. The instructions are in Perusall. Remember to read the footnotes (the small print at the bottom of the page)
WRITE: Write a post of at least 200 words about a particular passage in this text that you found difficult. Explain specifically where you got caught up and why. I get it. This seems like a really strange thing to do– but there’s a point to it! The places you have difficulty are where you’re doing your best thinking. The places you struggle are the places PhD students struggle too. Difficulties aren’t walls to stop you but obstacles that you can (and will) overcome!
This can be one of the passages you annotated (it probably will be) and you can write about whatever crosses your mind. You do not have to figure it out! But if one of your peers responded to your question, you can write about that.
Category: Unit One
UPLOAD: Change your Zoom profile picture to… something! Anything! You might use the avatar we created in class, or you might use a picture of your choosing. Whatever it is, get something up there besides just a blank square with your name. Remember this will show up in all your classes!
I believe what Mike Bunn said, “You already an author” means that we all authors and have written things in our everyday lives. For example, papers, essays, articles, text messages, tweets, posts, and other forms of writing you can think of. Also, we as authors control how our story should go. For example, choices play a part in our writing. Let’s say this, your life right now is a story and you have control over it. There is a life decision you have to make, a good decision and a bad decision. If you choose either of them, it affects you later in life. Everything we choose to do and say is part of our storyline in life, which is the past. when it comes to writing, the choices we make towards how it should go impacts our whole pieces. I’ve already an author because I’ve written stories about my life and my thoughts in journals and written research papers and essays. I even wrote fictional stories back in elementary school. This existing expertise will help me in my college reading and writing by improving my writing techniques and help me learn new things that I can use in my writing, such as vocabulary.
I discovered a method I can use for my writings when I read Bunn’s article. This sentence, “You are reading to learn about writing”, means reading to recognize a writing technique that an author provided in their piece of writing to understand how they put it together. When I read a writing piece, I think about the choices an author makes for their writing piece, why they chose it, and how it affects the audience. The techniques used in pieces influence readers to not only share their own responses to a text as a reader but to influence them to use these techniques authors used in their piece for them to write their own writing pieces and help them create their thoughts and ideas for it. When I read the way a piece is written, it makes me feel something and that influences me to write.
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