This target requires a group of 3-4 students. You will all agree on a text to read and will annotate it on your own. When everyone is done, you will all come together and have a discussion about what you read. You must come to the discussion with your text annotated and 2-3 questions prepared to show me. If you do not, you will not be able to participate.
These questions can help with your annotations.
Whenever you are analyzing a text, you must remember these three elements:
WHAT - what is the author telling the reader both literally and figuratively
HOW - how is the author relaying this message (anecdote, sarcasm, pathos, etc.)
WHY - what is going on in the world at the time of the writing; why does the author feel his or her message is important
TO WHOM - who is the intended audience of the piece; who has the power to make a change if he or she read this piece.
Determine an author’s perspective or purpose in a text, and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that perspective or purpose.
Analyze in detail the development of two or more central ideas over the course of a text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis.
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences and interpretations drawn from the text.
Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed
Deep thinking is shown/no surface level comments
8-10 Annotations
Determine an author’s perspective or purpose in a text, and analyze how the author makes his or her point
Analyze in detail two or more central ideas over the course of a text discussing its effect on the reader
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences and interpretations drawn from the text.
Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed
Attempt at deep thinking is shown
5-7 Annotations