Annotation

Annotation

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Objectives

examine and analyze text closely, critically, and carefully

make personal, meaningful connections with text

clearly communicate their ideas about a piece of text through writing, and discussion  

practice annotating and writing margin notes on text

What is Annotating?

And why do it?

Literary Devices

to think about when annotating

Making Text Connections

Text to Self

Test to Text

Text to World

Multiple Choice

What is annotation?

• coloring in a book

• drawing picture in a book about a story

• writing your thoughts, feelings and personal connections about a story

• finding words you don't know and highlighting them or changing the color of the font

Open Ended

What are some literary devices you might write about when you annotate?

Multiple Choice

When you annotate you

• highlighting the entire text.

• mark notes on a text as you read it.

• summarize the title.

• identify the main idea and supporting detail

Multiple Choice

The purpose of annotating is to...

• make an assumption about what is being read.

• make us do more work than we should be doing in English.

• highlight the text word for word.

• allow you to interact with, understand, and think about what the text is saying.

Multiple Choice

What is an important part of close and critical reading?

• Writing questions

• Making connections and responses

• Identifying tricky vocabulary

• All of these are important

Multiple Choice

A connection we make between one text and another book or story we've read.

• text-to-self

• text-to-text

• text-to-world

Multiple Choice

A connection we make between the text and our own personal life and experiences.

• text-to-self

• text-to-text

• text-to-world

Multiple Choice

A connection we make between the text something that is happening on the news.

• text-to-self

• text-to-text

• text-to-world

Multiple Choice

Identify the text connection:

I read a STORY about a woman who was afraid of black clowns. It reminded me of all the stories I heard on the news about killer clowns.

• text-to-self

• text-to-world

• text-to-text

Multiple Choice

Identify the text connection:

The part in the STORY where the boy is playing in the sand reminds ME of the time that I went to the beach with MY family. I had the best time.

• text-to-self

• text-to-text

• text-to-world

Multiple Choice

Identify the text connection:

The character in the book Dragonwings reminds me of a character in the book Number the Stars. Both characters are brave.

• text-to-self

• text-to-text

• text-to-world

Multiple Choice

What would be considered a good analysis of a character?

• I like this character

• This character is tall and wore a red outfit with red shoes and her outfit was very pretty from the description.

• By the way this character interacts with other characters, it seems like she doesn't get along well with other since she is always yelling at people

Multiple Choice

What would be a good summary of a setting and its impact on a text.

• the cold weather made the characters have to be inside for recess. Them being inside is what caused the main conflict, the fight, so the weather made a huge impact on the story.

• The cold weather meant the characters had to wear coats. People were all together in the gym and everyone was crammed together.

• It was really cold outside during this story.

Multiple Choice

What types of literary devices should be used during analysis?

Multiple Choice

Which example shows how to most effectively annotate a text?