Phong Nguyen - Annotation Assignment (American Literature 1865-Present) lyrics

For each of the five cla** sessions during which we are discussing My Antonia, we will be adding annotations to the entry for My Antonia on the literary annotation website Poetry Genius. http://poetry.rapgenius.com/albums/Willa-cather/My-antonia Currently there are no annotations on My Antonia on the Poetry Genius page, which means that the annotations provided by this cla** will form the interpretative framework of the book for all future visitors to the website. It is therefore important that you write thoughtful and critical annotations. 10/24 – Contextual annotation. Choose a fact from Willa Cather's life, or her era, and find a place in the text where this fact is relevant, and explain its relevance. 10/29 – Thematic annotation. Look at repetitions of images, situations, and ideas, and draw connections between them in the text. 10/31 – Referential annotation. Find a pa**age in the text that makes reference to other texts, and explain those references. 11/5 – Critical annotation. Drawing upon independent research, write an annotation consisting of (1) a quote from a critical essay an*lyzing a pa**age from the book and (2) an explanation of the relevance of that quote to that pa**age. 11/7 – an*lytical annotation. Write your own an*lysis of a pa**age from the book for which you give your own idiosyncratic interpretation of the work. On November 7th, turn in a hard copy of all of your annotations attached to the relevant pa**age. You may annotate more than five pa**ages, but in order to receive credit for the annotation a**ignment you must annotate at least five.