SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE ANNOTATION

🥾Open ONE of these articles in Kami:

• Your Brain on Puberty 

  • This article provides a good overview of how the hormones produced during puberty affect the way that neurons form and organize within the brain. It breaks down scientific terms in an easy to understand fashion and has colorful and interesting illustrations.

💡 (URL - for citation purposes: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2020.00053) 

• The Adolescent Brain: Beyond raging hormones 

  • This article also describes the relationship between hormones and brain development, summarizing several scientific studies, and discusses the implications of this new research on the way that the legal system treats adolescents. 

💡 (URL - for citation purposes: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/the-adolescent-brain-beyond-raging-hormones) 

🥾Use the highlighting tool to:

• Evaluate the main ideas or themes (ELA.1.2)

  • Highlight and comment on the most relevant and important examples of the main idea/claim/theme and what you think/feel about that information.

  • Highlight and comment on how this information relates to other things you've read or experienced.

  • Highlight and comment on how well the main idea/claim/theme was developed throughout the piece.

• Analyze context, point of view, and purpose (ELA.1.3)

  • Highlight and comment on whether there is any bias evident in the passage and what that bias might be.

  • Highlight and comment on the points of view presented in the passage and what may be "missing" from this discussion.

  • Highlight and comment on how different audiences may experience this information differently from me and why.

• Analyze craft (ELA.1.4)

  • Highlight and comment on how the text's structure (including paragraph length, sentence complexity, and vocabulary) helps make it harder or easier for me to understand the passage. 

💡 Keep a tab open with Google or a dictionary app, in case you encounter any words or concepts that are particularly challenging (or interesting).

• • Highlight and comment on any literary devices or clever turns of phrase that catch my eye and make the passage more interesting to read.

• Choose and apply reading strategies (ELA.1.1)

  • When you've finished reading the passage, comment on your overall reaction to the source and what reading strategies helped you make meaning of it.

🛠️ Here is a SAMPLE annotation to help you understand how you can demonstrate your critical reading skills. To help, I have use different colors to indicate different skills and labeled the comments that match those skills. 

⚠️ You do NOT have to label your comments, unless you think that would be useful to you!

📁 Submit your assignment (Article Annotation: Analysis) in Slate. (5pt)