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Least.pdfClarification--Define a word
Identify and highlight a word you are unfamiliar with.
Look up the word and write the definition in the margin that makes sense in context.
If none of the words seem unfamiliar to you, look for ones that you understand in context, but if forced to define without help you would struggle to.
Clarification--Paraphrase
Highlight one or two sentences that are difficult to understand.
In the margin reword those sentences using about the same amount of words. This should make the meaning clearer and easier to understand.
Connections
Start with "This is just like...." "This reminds me of..." "When I was ..." "Once I read a book/ saw a movie that..."
Provide a description of the connection. You should be making the connections to the text you are annotating, NOT noticing the connections the text is making. If you are noticing the connections the text is making, you are responding to the text. Something that we have not yet learned.
Summaries
Put brackets [ ] around a long section of text, at least 5 sentences, but more like 10. This could be one or more paragraphs if needed.
Then read the who passage you have bracketed.
In your mind, think about what is the MOST important. What is a ONE or two sentence version of that whole passage.
Look back at what you wrote, if there are a lot of details, delete them and leave just the straight forward gist of the passage.
Visualizations--Illustration
Highlight a sentence...this should be more than a single word. It should relate to the bigger ideas of the text.
Then draw the scene. What action is happening? Who (else) is there? What needs to be drawn to understand the entire idea.
Visualization--Word Picture
Highlight a sentence of what you are going to describe. This should be something related to the bigger ideas of the text.
Now, provide a description of the scene you are imagining.
Be sure you include enough details that if you read it to someone else, they could picture what you are.
Questions
Highlight something in the text that you are inquisitive about. This should be something that is beyond what a word means.
Ask a "big" question that cannot be answered with a simple google search. Questions should be similar to an essay question you could write several paragraphs about. It might be a question that could spark a debate with no easy answer.
Be sure that you have not highlighted the topic sentence and then asked what is being answered in that paragraph.
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