DafnaZur, “Let’s Go to the Moon: Science Fiction in the North Korean Children’s Magazine AdongMunhak, 1956-1965,” Journal of Asian Studies 73.2 (2014): 327-351.

January 31, 2019

EAS274H1: Popular Culture in East Asia
Professor Michelle Cho, Winter 2019

Reading Annotation Assignment

Due Feb 7, 2019. Upload to Quercus
Reading is a skill, especially active reading. I want you to actively read the course texts in this course. To this end, this assignment is designed to help you develop your active reading skills, and to think about what tools and strategies you can use to approach a text.
1. To complete this assignment, first read these guidelines/tips:
http://bit.ly/2DMDzcF
2. Then, choose one article from the following list (either the texts assigned for Jan 24 or Feb 7).
–DafnaZur, “Let’s Go to the Moon: Science Fiction in the North Korean Children’s Magazine AdongMunhak, 1956-1965,” Journal of Asian Studies 73.2 (2014): 327-351.
–Thomas Lamarre “Speciesism Part 1,” Mechademia 3 (2008): 75-95.
–Kyu Hyun Kim, “Fisticuffs, High Kicks, and Colonial Histories: The Ambivalence of Modern Korean Identity in Postwar Narrative Comics,” in The Korean Popular Culture Reader, eds Kyung Hyun Kim and YoungminChoe (Durham: Duke UP, 2013): 35-54.
–Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended (Picador, 2003), 239-264.
— Rey Chow “The Age of the World Target,” The Age of the World Target (Duke UP, 2006), 25-43.
— JamesSchwoch, “We Can Give the World a Vision of America,” Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946-69 (Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2009), 79-93.
–Hyunjoon Shin and Pil Ho Kim, “Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Group Sound Rock” in The Korean Popular Culture Reader, eds Kyung Hyun Kim and YoungminChoe (Durham: Duke UP, 2013): 275-295.
3. Print out the article and read it with pen in hand, according to the guidelines in the “Six Reading Habits” webpage from the Harvard Library.
4. Then, type out 5 phrases, sentences, or passages that you’ve noted (you’ve flagged in the margins or you’ve highlighted for some reason) in the table that follows. In the columns next to the citation, a) explicate and/or paraphrase the phrase, sentence, or passage; and b) state what questions, thoughts, associations, insights it provoked. Don’t feel like you have to write a lot about your annotations. You can simply copy and paste your notes from the text’s margins.

When thinking about how to develop yourannotation skills or practice active reading, consider the following:
Predicting: Think about how titles, section headings, and topic sentences help you to anticipate what a writer will talk about. What parts of the text clue you in to what’s to come?
Determining Importance: Often, when you come across an important passage, you just know it intuitively. But, if you were to slow down and try to explain why some parts of the text strike you as more important than others, how would you do that? Complete the sentence, “this is important because…”. Is it evidence of something that the author is trying to argue?
Tracking Key Vocabulary: Sometimes the main argument or aim of a text can be captured by key concepts or terms, which will be defined at the beginning, or defined and then modified as the text proceeds. Important passages often consist of places where the author is presenting and elaborating these definitions. Make sure to annotate (mark) these places and key terms.
Summarizing: This can take two helpful forms. First, when you finish a section of a text or reach a point where you can identify the completion of one stage of argumentation, summarize that section in the margins or in your notes. This can help you monitor your own comprehension of a text. You’ll be able to identify for yourself where you stopped understanding a text (or where you started to understand its main ideas), why you got stuck (e.g., you didn’t understand a key term), and what you can do to get unstuck. Secondly, it’s very effective to mark places in the text where the author summarizes their arguments to assist the reader or to regroup before proceeding to the next section.
Signal verbs: When authors use terms like “I argue, suggest, analyze, consider, claim, assert,” etc., this is usually a sign that they are stating their main hypotheses. Pay attention to these moments and then you can track whether or not the authors deliver adequate evidence to support these hypotheses.

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DafnaZur, “Let’s Go to the Moon: Science Fiction in the North Korean Children’s Magazine AdongMunhak, 1956-1965,” Journal of Asian Studies 73.2 (2014): 327-351.