1. Bell Work Use your own devices to look up information on Anne Bradstreet. Write down as many facts as possible. Record the source of your information.

2. Annotating a Text

3. Why Annotate? Annotation: a way of making notes directly onto a text such as a book, a handout, or another type of publication. The advantage of having one annotated text is that all the information is together and inseparable, with notes very close to the text for easier understanding, and with fewer pieces to keep organized.

4. How to Annotate A YELLOW highlighter allows you to mark exactly what you are interested in. Equally important, the yellow line emphasizes without interfering. While you read, highlight whatever seems to be KEY INFORMATION. Do NOT over-highlight!!! While you read, use MARGINALIA—marginal notes—to mark key material. Marginalia can include check marks, question marks, stars, arrows, brackets, and written words and phrases. Create your own system for marking what is important, interesting, quotable, questionable, and so forth.

5. Active Reading: Annotating Underline important TERMS. CIRCLE definitions and meanings. Write KEY WORDS and definitions in the margin. SIGNAL where important information can be found with key words or symbols in the margin. Write SHORT SUMMARIES in the margin at the end of sub-units. Write the QUESTIONS in the margin next to the section where the answer is found. Indicate steps in a process by using NUMBERS in the margin

6. Example Takes Notes in margins Doesn ’ t over-do Highlighting! Numbers main points

7. Examples of Annotations http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/a pc/public/repository/Walden_exam ple.pdf http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/a pc/public/repository/Walden_exam ple.pdf http://faculty.bucks.edu/specpop/annotat e-ex.htm http://faculty.bucks.edu/specpop/annotat e-ex.htm

8. Theme of a text The theme is the meaning or message of a text. Do not confuse theme with topic. Do not confuse theme with moral.

9. What is the topic? What is the theme? She was only 17 when she found out she was pregnant. She had no job. She hadn’t finished school. She saw teenaged pregnancy all around her and she had many friends with children. Was abortion her only choice? No, but it was her choice! Topic: ______________________________________________________________ Theme: ______________________________________________________________

10. What is the topic? What is the theme? She was both afraid and courageous at the same time. She and her boyfriend had both made a mistake. They recognized that. They also recognized that the road ahead of them wouldn’t be easy. Though the law said that abortion is legal, for them it wasn’t an option. They chose life. Topic: ________________________________________________________ Theme: _______________________________________________________

11. Work Session Annotate the poem, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Ann Bradstreet Look up and write the definitions for any unfamiliar words. Write questions and answers. Underline or highlight important words or phrases. Summarize the text in the margin.