first post for english!!

Strategies: First part:
~The first section compared "reading for pleasure versus reading for an academic assignment," and it makes good points about how students address academic readings. I think if you just treat an assignment for a class as if you stumbled upon it, then you would actually enjoy the reading. When reading material on your own, you should always use your presumed knowledge to get in depth of a reading, otherwise you can miss out on some really intriguing details the author has created.
~How detailed the breakdown of the first paragraph of the poem "Say I" is really good, because it helps me know how in depth we are expected to go when writing on poetry.
~ I am not quite sure if we are suppose to do the practices or not, so I just wrote some comments and thoughts.


Review Prompt:
4. Define Genre: The text defines genre as "a category we use to name and identify a text with consistent and familar features." So its basically grouping texts together so that their similarities are easier to be found and understood.
5. Convections of a text are important to look at because it allows the reader a better understanding of certain points that the author is trying to create. After knowing the genre the reader will be on the lookout for things that are thought to happen, and that makes it possible to pick up on foreshadowing or twists in the story.
7. Shakespeares "Sonnet 130" easily bends conventions because it is suppose to be a love poem which normally tries to make the person of detail seems flawless in everything, and he instead demolishs lots of her features. Such as, "My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground" makes her sound like an overweight elephant more than an object that attracts his eyes.
12. Define Context: The text defines context as "nothing more or less than the who, what, where, when, and why that surround every word, image, or artifact." Its the readers way of trying to figure out details of the text that make it realistic or just relating to some aspect of the world.
13. People approach text for the simple reason that all minds work differently, and certain words spark different thoughts or emotions for different people. In addition, everyone pertains different knowledge, so it is easy to overlook a meaningful word or go to in depth into a poem without realizing it.