Chart for John Berger
PARAGRAPH-BY-PARAGRAPH READING WORKSHEET
¶ | Author’s ActionA presents text Y / A tells story Y / A reports from Y / A analyzes Y / A reads Y / A speculates Z / A argues Z | 1 Sentence Distillation of Paragraph Spoken in Author’s VoiceIf this column is filled out properly and thoroughly you should be able to read it from top to bottom as an accurate distillation of the whole essay. Review and amend earlier distillations for accuracy and coherence as you go. | Key WordsList key words. Review and amend earlier groups of key words as you go. |
1 | A presents a text. | When I say the first line of the Lord’s Prayer | Lord’s prayer | 2 | | There is nothing baroque about it, no swirling infinite space or stunning foreshortening. | Baroque, infinite, foreshortening | 3 | | To lift up something as small and as at hand as a pebble or a saltcellar on the table. | Saltcellar, pebble. |
5 | analyzes Y / A | Today images abound everywhere. Never has so much been depicted and watched. We have glimpses at any moment of what things look like on the other side of the planet. | Depicted, glimpses, moment, planet. | 6 | | Yet with this, something has innocently changed. | Innocently, changed | 7 | | Now appearances are volatile. Technological innovation has made it easy to separate the apparent from the existent. | Volatile, technological, apparent, existent. | 8 | | It turns appearances into refractions, like mirages: refractions not of light but of appetite. | Refractions, mirages. |
9 | reports from Y / A | We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks | Unworn, masks. | 10 | | No bodies and no Necessity- for Necessity is the condition of the existent. It is what makes reality real | Reality, real. |
11 | reports from Y / A | Until recently, history, all the accounts people gave of their lives, all proverbs, fables, parables, confronted the same thing: the everlasting, fearsome, and occasionally beautiful, struggle
¶ | Author’s ActionA presents text Y / A tells story Y / A reports from Y / A analyzes Y / A reads Y / A speculates Z / A argues Z | 1 Sentence Distillation of Paragraph Spoken in Author’s VoiceIf this column is filled out properly and thoroughly you should be able to read it from top to bottom as an accurate distillation of the whole essay. Review and amend earlier distillations for accuracy and coherence as you go. | Key WordsList key words. Review and amend earlier groups of key words as you go. |
1 | A presents a text. | When I say the first line of the Lord’s Prayer | Lord’s prayer | 2 | | There is nothing baroque about it, no swirling infinite space or stunning foreshortening. | Baroque, infinite, foreshortening | 3 | | To lift up something as small and as at hand as a pebble or a saltcellar on the table. | Saltcellar, pebble. |
5 | analyzes Y / A | Today images abound everywhere. Never has so much been depicted and watched. We have glimpses at any moment of what things look like on the other side of the planet. | Depicted, glimpses, moment, planet. | 6 | | Yet with this, something has innocently changed. | Innocently, changed | 7 | | Now appearances are volatile. Technological innovation has made it easy to separate the apparent from the existent. | Volatile, technological, apparent, existent. | 8 | | It turns appearances into refractions, like mirages: refractions not of light but of appetite. | Refractions, mirages. |
9 | reports from Y / A | We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks | Unworn, masks. | 10 | | No bodies and no Necessity- for Necessity is the condition of the existent. It is what makes reality real | Reality, real. |
11 | reports from Y / A | Until recently, history, all the accounts people gave of their lives, all proverbs, fables, parables, confronted the same thing: the everlasting, fearsome, and occasionally beautiful, struggle