Today is...10.25.

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1.Write objective and rate yourself (1-5): I can annotate a text
thoroughly by making academic and personal connections.
2.Read standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among
and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events.

foa 10.25.16
1. Write your guess of what the word
annotate means.
2. Write three reasons (its okay if you
have to guess) of what you think the
purpose of annotating is.

Purpose of
Annotations?

What does it mean to annotate?

A note of explanation or a comment added to a text

With your small group: come up with a list of three purposes for annotating

What do you think the purpose of annotation is? Why do people annotate a text?

Purpose:

Help you make connections with the text - other text, real word, yourself.

Understand and comprehend what you are reading/thinking about.

Develop critical thinking skills by analyzing what is going on in the text.

Annotating Marks
1. Identify central idea by underlining and paraphrase in the margin
2. Identify thesis by drawing a box and paraphrase in the margin
3. Circle unknown/important vocabulary words
4. Mark evidence with a magnifying glass
5. Interesting information with !
6. Confusing information with ?
7. Personal connections marked with arrows
8. With each mark you make, write a comment about why you wrote the mark in the
margin

Your
turn...

Central idea and thesis first (3

minutes).
Paraphrase both (3 minutes).

For each paragraph, make one of the

marks and make a comment for
each mark (15 minutes).
Make personal connections with the
article.
What do you know? What do you want to
know? What does it make you think
about?

When you are finished annotating,

use devices for research to answer
questions or to look up vocab
words. (3 minutes)

7!
5?
Ten circled vocab

Include:

Central idea underlined and

paraphrased
Thesis boxed and paraphrased
3 evidence
4 arrows
A comment for each mark

Task one:
Central idea and thesis
statement. Locate and
paraphrase.
Time
remaining:

Task two: make one of each of the

marks and a comment for each
mark (make sure you are making
personal connections - how does
this relate to you?)
Time
remaining:

Task three: use your

devices to do research for
the annotations you just
made. Answer questions,
define words, etc.
Time
remaining: