• • Print, read, and annotate “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” By Yo-Yo Ma (Please bring to class on Thursday)
  • Blog # 14
  • STEP 1) Please upload at least 3-5 pages of your annotations to your Blog and briefly reflect on how you feel you are achieving your annotation goals. (15-25 words)
  • STEP 2) Revisit your notes on active reading and understanding context and do your best to describe each of the three contexts we’ve discussed in class. 1) What is the surrounding context for this essay? Where and when was it first published? Who wrote the essay, and what do you notice about the author’s bio? 2) What is the circumstantial context? What circumstances surround your personal reading experience? What is your purpose for reading this text? 3) Describe the intentional context. What is the rhetorical situation? What is the scope? What is the “so what?” Finally, please choose three unfamiliar words or references to look up. Define or explain those terms in your blog.

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Step 1- I am doing well with achieving my annotation goals. I still need to focus more but doing them online this time helped me read closer.

Step 2-

Surrounding context: This starts by giving a bio of Yo-yo Ma’s life from 5 years old by an author that is not Yo-yo Ma. The next page is written by Yo-yo Ma. It was published by Lynn Godsmith/Corbis. The site was launched in January 2014 during the World Economic Forum in Davis.

Circumstantial context: I am reading this because it is an assignment. Though, I am interested in it and I am not sure if I agree or disagree with the claim. The claim was “…the elements of empathy provided by artistic endeavors are essential to the kind of balanced thinking needed today.” I continued reading the text because it is interesting and will be useful when I need to write an essay using it.

Intentional context: This text is meant to make people aware of something that Yo-yo Ma is passionate about, enough to write about it. The scope is to get you thinking and spread word around if you feel passionate about this too.

Terms:

cellist- someone who plays the cello

repertoire- stock of plays, dances

bandwidth- a range of frequencies within a given band