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Objectives. By the end of today, you’ll be able to: use your new skill of annotating a text to better understand what you’re reading Analyze the author’s craft, figures of speech, and underlying meaning of the text. What’s annotation?.
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Objectives By the end of today, you’ll be able to: • use your new skill of annotating a text to better understand what you’re reading • Analyze the author’s craft, figures of speech, and underlying meaning of the text.
What’s annotation? • a critical or explanatory note or body of notes added to a text. • Basically, notes made on a text while reading! • May also be referred to as “talking to the text.” • It can help with reading comprehension.
Before you read • Look at the title • Read the front and back covers (if in book form) • Skim the text • Get familiar with the format! Is it a short story, poem, novel, etc.?
While you read • MARK IT UP! (If you can.) • Underline and highlight new characters, unfamiliar words, important passages, symbols, things you’re confused about • Write in the margins summarize passages, make predictions, ask questions, make connections, look for patterns, think about the author’s craft
How can I still annotate if I can’t write on the text? • Set it up on a piece of paper: • Write out what you would have marked in the text. Write the notes you’d write in the margins. • Take notes on the passage (page number, where to find it on the page).
After you read • Reread your annotations. • Reread any introduction or conclusion from the author. • Examine any patterns and repetitions you may have found. • Draw conclusions. • Determine possible meanings of the text and the title
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children strove At recess in the ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. Or rather — He passed us — The Dews drew quivering and chill — For only Gossamer, my Gown — My Tippet — only Tulle- - We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground— The Roof was scarcely visible – The Cornice – in the Ground – Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity –