I feel like I definitely am getting closer to reaching my annotation goals, but I feel as though a prompt would help me annotate and read more closely.
- Surrounding Context: “Necessary Edges: Arts, and Education” was written by Yo-Yo Ma, a cellist, and songwriter who graduated from Julliard School and Harvard University. Ma wrote this essay in January 2014, the essay was published by the online news and blog site World-Post. What stood out to me was how accomplished Ma is, he began performing at five years old and since then has won seventeen Grammy Awards, produced more than ninety albums and has received numerous awards as well.
- Circumstantial Context: Until reading Yo-Yo Ma’s essay I haven’t really thought of arts and music as important pieces of education. The way Ma described it made it seem like arts and education made a student and person well-rounded and overall better aware, empathetic, and critical. I definitely feel as if I should’ve cared more about the arts in high school so I could be better developed in those categories and more well rounded.
- Intentional Context: I feel that Yo-Yo Ma’s essay is encouraging not only STEM but is encouraging STEAM. He believes that incorporating arts is not only beneficial for the student to be involved in arts like music, and theater but the skills that are developed from it are beneficial as well.
- Glossing the text:
- Lascivious: dirty, naughty, suggestive
- Sarabande: a slow, stately Spanish dance in triple time
- Bandwidth: the energy or mental capacity required to deal with a situation
Paige,
Your annotations look good. I can see that you are comfortable annotating for the purpose of remembering and understanding. Continue to work on building connections and reading critically. I think it’s wise of you to acknowledge how much a prompt would direct your attention. I recommend revisiting Ma now that you have a clearer sense of what you are going to argue.