Find a passage in Section 2 that “speaks” to you with regard to your essay.
Highlight and annotate 4-5 really good quotations from this passage. “Really good” means that you could use the information to write one of the three essays in the writing assignment. Then write a paragraph of commentary in which you incorporate the quotations you chose.
DO NOT worry about a thesis yet. DO NOT worry about a topic sentence. Your goal is to find pertinent Diction, Imagery, and Detail and to write about how that’s connected to a topic. We’ll make claims and assertions later.
Below is my example from Section 1. The first document is the passage with my annotations; the second is the commentary I wrote. I deliberately left it messy. I’d love to tell you that I get it all right the first time through, but that would be a dirty lie. Writing is hard. Thinking is hard. The two together are hard (squared.)
I think you’ll need about 250 words of commentary to have done a thorough job. This is due when you come to class next period — Tuesday, January 31(B) and Wednesday, February 1(A).