1. Analyzing Literature and Annotating Text Ben Lusk

2. Session Goals  Engage in works of literature  Struggle with rhetorical situations  Annotate texts  Develop rhetorical questions  Share/model with students  Understand the need for interesting and thought provoking materials

3. Purposes for Academic Reading  To master a course’s key concepts and ideas  To understand and apply the discipline’s characteristic ways of thinking  What questions does this discipline ask?  What questions have been answered?  What questions still need to be answered?  How does it acquire new information?  What is acceptable evidence?  How do you write arguments in this discipline?

4. Questions Rhetorical Readers Ask Resource 1  Meaningful Questions  Meaningful Journaling/Reading Logs  Anticipation Guides

5. The Parlor Metaphor Resource 2  What is conversation? What is its purpose?  What is a metaphor? How does it function?  Symbolic Drama and Action  When entering a “conversation”, what questions must a person ask to gain historical and future perspective?  How do new “frames” of perspective affect the conversation before, now, and in the future?

6. Poetical Explication and Annotation Resource 3  Annotation is the key to success with poetry  Students suffer from immediate interpretitus  Building a firm foundation  Framing the structure  Decorating the interior

7. Prose Explication and Annotation Resource 4  Annotation is the key to success with prose  Students do not mark their thoughts  Building a firm foundation  Framing the structure  Decorating the interior