We’ve got three texts and writers on deck for Thursday: Henry Adams, “The Dynamo and the Virgin” (from The Education of Henry Adams (1907/1918)); W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (from The Souls of Black Folk (1903); and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall Paper” (1892).

You should make three annotations on each text.  Try to get these done by some time tonight (Wed.).

A few reminders about digital annotations: don’t use the annotations to define words, paraphrase sentences, or supply reference material.  Instead, think of the annotations as allowing you to do two things: one, to trace out patterns like the ones we looked for in Levine’s “They Feed They Lion,” i.e. repetitions of words, images, formal features (rhythm, meter, anaphora, etc.), etc.; two, to chronicle your reading process, especially the critical moments in this process. In other words, annotations can be very helpful and illuminating when you use them to identify points of confusion or frustration in your reading process and when you use the annotations not to resolve confusion but to really reflect on and think through what makes this moment in the text confounding.