Thursday, January 8, 2015

Close Reading (CRR)

I really thought about it, and wondered in all my time having English, why have we never had to read song lyrics more for close reading assignments. We all obviously love music so why not. I can say that i have only had to do that one time, and that was maybe 4 years ago. It really amazes me how we don't do this more. Give the class verses to read and annotate for homework and i guarantee that everyone (well mostly everyone) will do it. I'm not saying that I don't like some of the readings we have, because some of them are actually interesting, and i also understand that we have to be reading more difficult things to get read for college, but that does not mean that we cant get lyrics to a song and try to understand the deeper meaning behind it, like MANY song now a days have. If you don't believe me, search up any song, then go to genius.com and read what the artist meant by it and i bet you'll be surprised.

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  1. Have you looked at your syllabus lately? We are working on poetry next. We are going to compare modern lyrics with old poems. Hopefully, you'll enjoy!

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