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Analyzing Literature and Annotating Text. Ben Lusk. Session Goals. Engage in works of literature Struggle with rhetorical situations Annotate texts Develop rhetorical questions Share/model with students Understand the need for interesting and thought provoking materials.
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Session Goals • Engage in works of literature • Struggle with rhetorical situations • Annotate texts • Develop rhetorical questions • Share/model with students • Understand the need for interesting and thought provoking materials
Purposes for Academic Reading • To master a course’s key concepts and ideas • To understand and apply the discipline’s characteristic ways of thinking • What questions does this discipline ask? • What questions have been answered? • What questions still need to be answered? • How does it acquire new information? • What is acceptable evidence? • How do you write arguments in this discipline?
Questions Rhetorical Readers Ask Resource 1 • Meaningful Questions • Meaningful Journaling/Reading Logs • Anticipation Guides
The Parlor Metaphor Resource 2 • What is conversation? What is its purpose? • What is a metaphor? How does it function? • Symbolic Drama and Action • When entering a “conversation”, what questions must a person ask to gain historical and future perspective? • How do new “frames” of perspective affect the conversation before, now, and in the future?
Poetical Explication and Annotation Resource 3 • Annotation is the key to success with poetry • Students suffer from immediate interpretitus • Building a firm foundation • Framing the structure • Decorating the interior
Prose Explication and Annotation Resource 4 • Annotation is the key to success with prose • Students do not mark their thoughts • Building a firm foundation • Framing the structure • Decorating the interior