Annotation Assignment’s “Blc0650” by BLC0650 Lyrics
The book of Revelations, also known as the Apocalypse of Saint John, is one of the most complex ancient apocalyptic texts filled with symbolism, graphic imagery, and interpretative difficulties. This semester members of the class will engage in an annotation project that will hopefully help each other better understand the difficulties of this book and how it remains a key text for interpreting and understanding modern apocalyptic movements and ideas.
This project will involve a collective study of the book of Revelations using the online web application genius.com. This website is easy to use and allows users to create rather detailed annotations involving links, images and text formatting.
For this assignment, each student is expected to add at least one annotation on the texts that are read for the day’s assignments (thus, over 3 classes, each student should add a total of 3 annotations). You may add more (or less) but remember that this assignment will enter your end-of-semester portfolio and it will be difficult to argue that your effort deserves a high grade if you do not engage with an assignment.
Procedures:
1. Go to genius.com and sign up for an account (it allows you to sign-in using other credentials, like facebook, but I personally don’t like doing that).
2. Go to the class roster page, highlight your name and annotate it with your genius.com username.
3. Scan the genius userguide for students, it has some great examples of quality annotations, but most of the technical hints you won’t need to bother with
4. Read the assigned text from Revelations (I am providing paper copies as well so you won’t need to just read it online). Look for texts involving complex symbolism, texts that appear to have a significant “story” behind them, and texts have important interpretive information. These will be texts that are worthy of some more research and annotation. You can go onto genius.com and start an annotation on that verse or phrase to “claim” it.
5. Research the text or idea that you would like to annotation. Look for connections to other parts of the Bible, similar symbolism in other apocalyptic books of the time (like Enoch or the Dead Sea Scrolls), or interesting modern interpretations of the text.
6. There are three types of annotations that you should think about: historical background, intertextual connections (to other Biblical texts or texts of that time), and modern interpretations (like debates over the mark of the beast).
7. Add your annotation on the website, be sure to save it. I need to approve these annotations since we are using a “classroom” version of the text. I may leave comments for further information or to improve the post.
8. Read other students’ annotations – feel free to comment on them as well, but definitely learn from them!
This project will involve a collective study of the book of Revelations using the online web application genius.com. This website is easy to use and allows users to create rather detailed annotations involving links, images and text formatting.
For this assignment, each student is expected to add at least one annotation on the texts that are read for the day’s assignments (thus, over 3 classes, each student should add a total of 3 annotations). You may add more (or less) but remember that this assignment will enter your end-of-semester portfolio and it will be difficult to argue that your effort deserves a high grade if you do not engage with an assignment.
Procedures:
1. Go to genius.com and sign up for an account (it allows you to sign-in using other credentials, like facebook, but I personally don’t like doing that).
2. Go to the class roster page, highlight your name and annotate it with your genius.com username.
3. Scan the genius userguide for students, it has some great examples of quality annotations, but most of the technical hints you won’t need to bother with
4. Read the assigned text from Revelations (I am providing paper copies as well so you won’t need to just read it online). Look for texts involving complex symbolism, texts that appear to have a significant “story” behind them, and texts have important interpretive information. These will be texts that are worthy of some more research and annotation. You can go onto genius.com and start an annotation on that verse or phrase to “claim” it.
5. Research the text or idea that you would like to annotation. Look for connections to other parts of the Bible, similar symbolism in other apocalyptic books of the time (like Enoch or the Dead Sea Scrolls), or interesting modern interpretations of the text.
6. There are three types of annotations that you should think about: historical background, intertextual connections (to other Biblical texts or texts of that time), and modern interpretations (like debates over the mark of the beast).
7. Add your annotation on the website, be sure to save it. I need to approve these annotations since we are using a “classroom” version of the text. I may leave comments for further information or to improve the post.
8. Read other students’ annotations – feel free to comment on them as well, but definitely learn from them!