Blog Post 3 Sept.24 *repost*

Submitted by Simon Mancuso on

This week's class presented many interesting challenges as we began our first annotation assignment for Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. I found the process of annotation to be incredibly interesting and engaging. Through these annotations I was presented with a great opportunity to research and analyze the text in more detail than I otherwise would be. I was able to learn about the historical context of many of the themes presented throughout the text.

Blog Post #3: September 24th

Submitted by Fahimah Hamidavi on

This week’s discussion about the images in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was really useful to me.  I have next to no experience interpreting images, so that was the thing I was most anxious about going into this course. I’ve spent years building my skills at interpreting and analyzing words, but doing so with images is a whole new world. It was really helpful sitting together as a class and working through the images together to see what purposes we thought each image served.

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Submitted by Alicia Puebla on

While working on the annotations today for A Christmas Carol I got to thinking specifcially about how much in text goes over the mind. When you read a text so many times your mind goes at a spead that if you brush over a word that is not fully familiar to you it does not phase your reading. The activity we did today allowed us to individually slowly analyze the text and grab further context on the victorian era. I felt that looking through the annotations made my peers I was so much more informed on certain phrases and meaning.

ENG910: Blog Post #3 - Colouring

Submitted by Kisha Rendon on

I found this week’s focus on John Leech’s artwork for A Christmas Carol flooded with social commentary. In our group discussion we analyzed an illustration of Mr.Fezziwig from Ebinezer Scrooge’s paranormal encounter with the ghost of his past. As we analyzed the steel plate etching, we noted the detailed images of Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig for being more vibrant and “jovial” in contrast to the other characters around them.

Blog #3 || Sept. 24

Submitted by Kyle Sarjeant on

A point of interest for me this week was learning more about the historical context Dickens was writing in. Learning more about the material conditions of the Victorian working poor during the 1840s added a new layer of appreciation for the text. References to the “Poor Law” and the “Treadmill” in the first stave completely went over my head in my initial reading. It is clear to me now that Dickens was thinking about the conditions of working class people as he was writing A Christmas Carol, but also had a keen sense of his middle class audience.

Week Three Response - Image/Text/Context: Analyzing Christmas Past, Present, and To Come

Submitted by Melissa Emanoilidis on

What particularly interested me the most about annotating Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was reading the textual version of the story. When reading the graphic novel, I was able to visualize what events were happening but was not even as much of an in-depth analysis of the text. This way, I was able to consider specific sentences and words that were used in a deeper way, allowing me to see more characterization, themes, and settings. This method of reading the text also helped me understand John Leech’s illustrations.

Response Blog - Week Three (September 24)

Submitted by Mark Dasilva on

In this week's class, we focused on annotating both the text and the images of A Christmas Carol. What I found most interesting from annotating the text was the content annotations. Craft annotations are typically what we have to do when engaging with a text in order to draw out meaning. However, looking out for words or phrases that feel uniquely applied or that are not familiar is something I will occasionally neglect.

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