1. Annotation
NOTE:
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2. Why Should We Annotate? Helps you during reading
Summarize a difficult section/paragraph
Define unfamiliar words
Helps you after reading
Notice patterns
Find passages easily
Find evidence that you can cite later!
“Marking and highlighting a text is like having a conversation with a book – it allows you to ask questions, comment on meaning, and mark events and passages you want to revisit. Annotating is a permanent record of your intellectual conversation with the text.”
-Laying the foundation: A Resource and Planning Guide for Pre-AP English

3. Things You Can Annotate For:
Literary Elements:
Major Themes/Patterns
Questions you have based on what you read
Unfamiliar words or references (look up the definition/meaning and write it in)
Mark confusing passages
Mark areas where a character changes/develops
Foreshadowing
Dramatic Irony
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Personification
Oxymoron
Allusion
Flashback
Hyperbole

4. How Can I Mark These Things?
Color Coded System (Different highlighters or sticky notes)
Different symbols
Brackets [ ]
Asterisks *
Stars
Circling words
Making a square around a word or paragraph
Example
Example

5. WARNING!
WARNING: Don’t highlight too much! A little goes a long way. If you want to be able to find something later, it needs to stand out!
Remember… Highlighting is like salt. A little improves things, but a lot makes a mess of things!
WARNING: Don’t highlight too much! A little goes a long way. If you want to be able to find something later, it needs to stand out!
Remember… Highlighting is like salt. A little improves things, but a lot makes a mess of things!