1. Unit 1: Close Reading Skills
Talking to the Text and Reading with a Purpose

2. Skills / Routines of Annotating
1. Write in the margins 2. Make summary/organization notes 3. Underline key words 4. Circle unknown words and write replacement synonym in the margin 5. Ask questions: to clarify, to point out your interest 6. Make comments 7. Make predictions

3. Reading with a Purpose
Highlight and make note of details that support your claim or help you answer the guiding question.
Learn to skim material that does not directly develop your claim or understanding. (Trimming the Fat)
Learn to identify the Author’s Purpose, so that you can skim and trim more effectively.

4. The Unit 1 Test: I will use a segment of an ACT Reading test.
You will need to annotate it.
You will answer multiple choice questions that ask you about:
Author’s purpose
Meaning of the non-fiction passage details.

5. Recognizing Theme in Fiction
What is the relationship between feeling joy and feeling emotional pain?
How do you find beauty in life after you have suffered?
What is the function of grief?
On Friday, you will use only your WHW Charts to respond to one of these questions. So, you will have to use Kitchen as an example of what you claim. Your response will be one Mel-Con paragraph. You may write your claim on your chart. Note: I will not grade you on using literary terms. I will use the MEL-Con rubric in your packet from Mrs. Pestich.