RULES OF NOTICE Annotating Texts

Using the Rules of Notice to guide you, annotate a passage from your book. It should be at least 20 lines long. Mr. Nauss usually chooses this. Copy the passage carefully into your notebook using your pen – double-spaced. I will copy one for you when I can Using the Rules of Notice to guide you, annotate a passage from your book. It should be at least 20 lines long. Mr. Nauss usually chooses this. Copy the passage carefully into your notebook using your pen – double-spaced. I will copy one for you when I can

Annotate the Passage Reading and Viewing Reading is Thinking Rules of Notice Elements of Fiction What is important about this passage? Why this passage is “something to be noticed”? What does this passage show you about the setting, plot, characters, theme, literary devices, etc… What are you thinking when you read this passage? Questions, connections, definitions, visualizations, statements, etc…

What to Include… Can you put “annotating” in your own words? Passage from your book – why important? Reflection: –What realization or deeper understanding about your book did you come to from doing your close reading? – Thinking of this passage, and of your book as a hold, answer the following question: How does this story help you to make sense of the world?

Level 1- External from your brain Titles, Beginnings, Endings RepetitionComparison/Contrast Font Size Unexpected Events Character Response Visuals – Graphic depictions

Level 2 – Your Personal Thinking 1 st read thoughts and impressions QuestionsConnectionsPredictions Inferences (including cause/effect) Patterns and Motifs

Level 3 (Def-Con 3!) Highest Alert Level – Brain must be ready!! Notice story structure and elements of fiction Conflict and complications Character (development and Characteristics Rising Action (plot development) Climax Author Technique Figurative Language (especially poetry) (Ex. Irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, metaphor) Overall “function” of the passage itself. What if it were “cut out” of the larger text. Would it matter?

Materials Needed for the Job! 1. Highlighter (varied colours if possible 2. Pens (varied colours if possible) 3. Pencil 4. Coloured pencil – yes they really work! 5. Other??? Can you think of any that will not cover text in a negative way?? Bring them!!

So how do we do this? Underline, star, highlight, box, circle whatever words, phrases, or sentences that catch your attention. Write brief comments in the margins

What sorts of things do we look for again? (table style) Alliterationoxymoron Allusionparadox Ambiguity parallel construction Archetypespattern Assonancepersonification characterizationprose denotation/con notation rhetorical question dictionrhyme epic poetrysetting Euphemismsimile first person point of view soliloquy

Are there more? Yes!! Foreshadowing stream of consciousness free versestyle-formal, informal hyperbolesymbolism Imagerysynesthesia interior monologuesyntax irony-dramatic, verbal, situational third person limited lyric poetry third person omniscient metaphortime shifts meter repetitiontone narrative poetrytragedy naturalistic detailunderstatement onomatopoeia

Why oh Why????? Annotating makes you think carefully about what you are reading. Reading is thinking!! You are “extending” this thinking by making notes Annotating can help you make decisions about what is important It is a great tool for writing about literature, for example, commentaries, essays, short answers, paragraph responses, etc.

What does it Look Like?

Any questions? This should be stressed all the way through high school You should employ it at all times wherever possible. You will not only look smarter but your mark should reflect this work you do.