1. Annotations What is it? “Reading with a pencil” is the practice of making notes to oneself during reading.

2. What does this help me do exactly? Focus attention on text (not just glaze over the words) Find text-based evidence. Keep track of your thinking. Help you notice or observe parts in a story that you wouldn’t have noticed before. Focus attention on text (not just glaze over the words) Find text-based evidence. Keep track of your thinking. Help you notice or observe parts in a story that you wouldn’t have noticed before.

3. Why do you make me do this? Used to help guide discussions. Used to help develop writing. It tremendously improves comprehension. Used to help guide discussions. Used to help develop writing. It tremendously improves comprehension.

4. How do I do it? Have a conversation with the text. Talk back to it. Ask questions!!! Comment on the actions or the development of the character(s). Comment on lines/quotations you think are especially significant, powerful, or meaningful. Have a conversation with the text. Talk back to it. Ask questions!!! Comment on the actions or the development of the character(s). Comment on lines/quotations you think are especially significant, powerful, or meaningful.

5. Express agreement or disagreement. Summarize key events. Make predictions. Connect ideas to each other or to other texts. Note if you experience an epiphany. Note anything you would like to discuss or do not understand. Express agreement or disagreement. Summarize key events. Make predictions. Connect ideas to each other or to other texts. Note if you experience an epiphany. Note anything you would like to discuss or do not understand.

6. Do It! You have a part of the non- fiction article on Taking His Best Shot. Read it and show how you would annotate it with the information given to you. You have a part of the non- fiction article on Taking His Best Shot. Read it and show how you would annotate it with the information given to you.

7. Nature photography can be a fun and interesting hobby. In this article, nature photographer John Fielder describes his experiences and provides tips for beginning photographers. Read the article and answer the questions that follow. Taking His Best Shots by Claudia Cangilla McAdam 1 John Fielder could have drowned on his way to work. His raft bumped over rocks and pitched through rapids on the Dolores River in southwestern Colorado. The spring runoff of melting snow from the mountains sent chilly water crashing down the river. 2 Fielder’s rubber raft rushed toward “Snaggletooth,” the largest rapid on this stretch of the Dolores. The raft smacked into a big rock in the middle of the 100-foot- wide river. Thousands of pounds of water poured over the edge of the boat, securing it against the rock and drenching Fielder. He was in big trouble. 3 Luckily, another group of rafters came by. They set up a “Z-rig,” a system of pulleys secured by a tree at the side of the river. It took seven people two hours to free Fielder so that he could continue on to work. 4 Who goes to work in a rubber raft? As a nature photographer, Fielder often travels to work in unusual ways. In spring, he rafts the rivers to reach hidden canyons. In summer, three llamas carry his equipment, and helpers trek the rugged land with him. In winter, he skis the back country, traveling five to nine miles a day to get from one remote hut or cabin to another.

10. Now, let’s do it together.

11. The Open Window by H.H. Munro (SAKI)H.H. Munro (SAKI) "My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; "in the meantime you must try and put up with me." Framton Nuttel endeavored to say the correct something which should duly flatter the niece of the moment without unduly discounting the aunt that was to come. Privately he doubted more than ever whether these formal visits on a succession of total strangers would do much towards helping the nerve cure which he was supposed to be undergoing "I know how it will be," his sister had said when he was preparing to migrate to this rural retreat; "you will bury yourself down there and not speak to a living soul, and your nerves will be worse than ever from moping. I shall just give you letters of introduction to all the people I know there. Some of them, as far as I can remember, were quite nice." Framton wondered whether Mrs. Sappleton, the lady to whom he was presenting one of the letters of introduction came into the nice division. "Do you know many of the people round here?" asked the niece, when she judged that they had had sufficient silent communion. "Hardly a soul," said Framton. "My sister was staying here, at the rectory, you know, some four years ago, and she gave me letters of introduction to some of the people here."