General Annotation Guidelines
Annotation begins first with highlighting the text:
Highlighting (text)
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Annotating (in margins)
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Highlighting is a necessary step toward annotating a text, but it is not annotation itself. Once you have highlighted the text, you must then process this information by writing in the margins of the text.
This, then, is annotation:
This, then, is annotation:
Annotations and Passage Packet
Reading Literature Strategies by standard
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Passage Packet Answer Sheet
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Fiction Close Reading
Week 1: "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "As His Head Sank Deep"
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Week 2: "The Magic Shop"
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Week 3: Excerpt from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
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Week 4: "Ethan Fromme" and "Snake Boy"
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Poetry and Drama Close Reading
Week 1: "The Years"
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Week 2: "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"
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Week 3: "When I heard the learn'd astronomer"
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Week 4: "Wings" by Miroslav Holub and "Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot: Histology" by William Carlos Williams
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Nonfiction close reading
Week 1: "Wolves" and "Amy Tan" pg. 17-19
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Week 2: "Earthquake Damage" and "Leading Women"
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Week 3: "Charles Dickens" and "Will's Journal"
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Week 4: "Battle for San Pietro"
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Week 5: "Editor"
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