READ THE ROOM
Welcome to Read the Room! Our names are Alexa DePalma, Rachel Little, Jay Napoliello, and Venesa Porter. We are a group of students engaging in a serious inquiry into an educational prejudice concerning the role reading plays in our becoming and developing as writers. We will also engage in four methods to help us read as writers. These methods include reading for mimesis and theme, close reading, reading for intertextuality, and reading for rhetoric of narratives. We chose Night, Supermarket, Reboot, and The Haunting of Hill House as our four books to focus on using the methods above. We hope you choose to follow us along on this journey and enjoy!
Venesa Porter (AB)
Annotated Bibliography December 19, 2020 How Writers Read The Haunting Of Hill House The Haunting Of Hill House written by Shirley Jackson was published in 1959. This story begins with Dr. John Montague sending out 12 letters with an invitation to spend the summer at a known haunted house by the name of Hill House.…
Rachel Little (AB)
Introduction Books are never read in isolation. The way people read is influenced by a multitude of factors: books they have read in the past, the genre they are reading, their internalized cultural codes and roles they play within the narrative. While practicing the art of close reading, I had to reflect on the baggage…
Jay Napoliello (AB)
Annotated Bibliography – Reboot [Amy Tintera] I was always a shy kid. And so, like most shy kids, I found myself in the company of books more often than I found myself in the company of people. My classmates would get scolded for sneaking toys into the classroom, while I would get scolded for…
Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Paul Simon
Read the Room 