Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
above are my annotations from two different essay .
Throughout my high school year annotating was mostly about what I understood from the reading and highlighting words that were confusing to me. which is different from college annotating where we have to go in deep, it is more self-directed where we have to identify the argument and the challenge of finding evidence. that basically what happen with my first annotating paper where i barely find anything i kinda just underline things that were confusing to me and just left a piece of note. but as i got the hand of it i was more confident doing annotation especially with the “JOY” essay i think it was my best annotation for the whole semester, it was easier to especially with the annotation guide handout i though it was really helpful for me to find things to highlight and take not on the essays easily.
Respond, in your own words, and referencing your own experiences, to the validity of Gay’s question: “What if joy and pain are fundamentally tangled up with one another?”
Ross Gay’s idea that joy and pain are connected kinda makes sense to me because my meaningful moments usually have both feelings. When I’m really happy, like being with family or achieving a goal, there is always that pinch of sadness and the struggle that came with it . For example, me moving to a new place or starting a college is exciting but also means leaving behind familiar faces and routines. which is not easy going from seeing them everyday to barely.
Answering to the reading response
This is how I used my reading response to understand Ross Gay’s idea that joy and pain are connected. At first, his idea felt a bit confusing, but when I thought about my own life, it started to make sense. I realized that many of my most meaningful moments have both happiness and a little bit of sadness. For example, moving to a new place or starting college was exciting, but it also meant leaving behind people and routines that I was used to. That part of change was hard because I wasn’t going to see my friends and family every day anymore.
Answering this question helped me see how joy and pain often go hand in hand in life. It helped me realize that when I’m really happy, there’s usually a little bit of sadness or struggle behind it, and that’s okay. Without this reading response, I might not have fully understood what Gay meant or how it connected to my own life. It also gave me a better way to think about how I deal with both joy and sadness together in big moments.
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