Tutoring hours: Thursday during Lyceum and after school (3:30-4:30) as well as Friday before school (7:45-8:10) and during Lyceum, all in room 205. Please note that some sessions may be canceled due to meetings, though this should be a fairly rare occurrence.
Coming soon: Writing Handbook.
ANNOTATIONS GUIDELINES
Things to Annotate (items that should always be identified while reading):
Characterization: Anything that demonstrates what kind of person a character is. This can be not only what they look like and how they are physically described, but also what they say or do and how they say or do the things.
Setting: Any information that tells the reader when or where a story is taking place, what important differences there are between our world and the one in the text, and important details about what is happening in that fictional world.
Literary Devices: Oftentimes beautiful language used to describe things in the text with more detail or in a more creative way. Some examples: simile (comparison between two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'), metaphor (comparison between two unlike things NOT using the words 'like' or 'as' where one thing is said to be the other thing), personification (giving humanlike qualities to nonhuman things), alliteration (repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words in a sentence), allusion (often historical or literary references made in the text), hyperbole (an extreme exaggeration made to make a point), and onomatopoeia (sounds spelled out with words).
Foreshadowing: Clues provided throughout the story that hint at something to come later in the text.
Types of Annotations (not required to be done exactly like this):
Bracketing to identify a character, plot, or argument detail
Underlining to identify a character, plot, or argument detail
Highlighting to identify a character, plot, or argument detail
Writing out questions you have
Circling and defining words you do not know
Summarizing:
Short summaries (1-5 words) for a short section or page
Longer summaries (5-10) for longer section or chapter
Notes in the side margin relating to any or all of the things below: thoughts you have, connections you make between various parts of the text, identifying themes you see, scenes that help to characterize a character, etc.
*Students should have four or more annotations per page that include both higlighting/underling and written words in order to fully interact with the text.