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RULES OF NOTICE Annotating Texts
Using the Rules of Notice to guide you, annotate a passage from your book. It should be at least 20 lines long. Copy the passage carefully into your notebook using your pen double-spaced.Title the passage “Rules of Notice” along with the name of your novel and page(s) number the passage came from.
Annotate the Passage What is important about this passage? Why this passage is “something to be noticed”? Rules of Notice Reading is Thinking Reading and Viewing What are you thinking when you read this passage? Questions, connections, definitions, visualizations, statements, etc… What does this passage show you about the setting, plot, characters, theme, literary devices, etc… Elements of Fiction
What to Include… • Can you put “annotating” in your own words? • Passage from your book – why important? • Reflection: • What realization or deeper understanding about your book did you come to from doing your close reading? • Thinking of this passage, and of your book as a hold, answer the following question: How does this story help you to make sense of the world?
Level 1- External from your brain • Titles, Beginnings, Endings • Repetition • Comparison/Contrast • Font Size • Unexpected Events • Character Response • Visuals – Graphic depictions
Level 2 – Your Personal Thinking • 1st read thoughts and impressions • Questions • Connections • Predictions • Inferences (including cause/effect) • Patterns and Motifs
Level 3 (Def-Con 3!) Highest Alert Level – Brain must be ready!! • Notice story structure and elements of fiction • Conflict and complications • Character (development and Characteristics • Rising Action (plot development) • Climax • Author Technique • Figurative Language (especially poetry) (Ex. Irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, metaphor) • Overall “function” of the passage itself. What if it were “cut out” of the larger text. Would it matter?
Materials Needed for the Job! • 1. Highlighter (varied colours if possible • 2. Pens (varied colours if possible) • 3. Pencil • 4. Coloured pencil – yes they really work! • 5. Other??? Can you think of any that will not cover text in a negative way?? Bring them!!
So how do we do this? • Underline, star, highlight, box, circle whatever words, phrases, or sentences that catch your attention. • Write brief comments in the margins
Why oh Why????? • Annotating makes you think carefully about what you are reading. Reading is thinking!! You are “extending” this thinking by making notes • Annotating can help you make decisions about what is important • It is a great tool for writing about literature, for example, commentaries, essays, short answers, paragraph responses, etc.
Any questions? • This should be stressed all the way through high school • You should employ it at all times wherever possible. • You will not only look smarter but your mark should reflect this work you do.