1. Annotating Your Sources

2. Step One: Read
To properly annotate your sources, you must first read and understand what they are about.
Take a moment to lightly read.

3. Step Two: Main Ideas Establish what your source’s main ideas are.
What made you select this source?
Did it match one (or both) of your literary elements?
What about your theme?

4. Step Three: Highlighting and Marginal Notes
Now that you’ve read your sources, it is time to take your highlighters (THREE, to be exact!) and go through each one separately.
Create a legend/key to identify which colors mean what:
Ex: yellow---setting; blue---conflict; green---theme
Locate main quotes that match.
Highlight them.
In the margins, make any notes you think would help you quickly reference the source’s main points.

5. Step Four: The Analysis Handout
Please answer ALL areas of this once you have finished annotating.
This includes citations, main ideas, lit. elements, theme, etc.
You must include this in your folder when you finish it today. You will receive a stamp for your efforts only if the handout is completed on both sides.