- #Close reading annotations code#
- #Close reading annotations series#
- #Close reading annotations free#
Effective annotating helps you dissect difficult texts and to discern meaning from them. Since we will annotate texts all year, you need to develop a system that works for you (within the following guidelines).
#Close reading annotations code#
You may want to have students color code their annotations, using different colors for definitions, tone, rhetorical devices, literary devices, connections, etc. Have students rotate writing when they go to the next line. They should begin with the first line and annotate like they did as a whole class. There will be groups with the same sonnet.
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Allow this to be displayed for the students as they complete their small group close read of another sonnet.
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In all three of the suggested sonnets, there is a clear volta (shift) between lines 8 and 9.Do they give examples? Do they change topic? Do they have a metaphor/simile? Have students define how the sentences are connected. Continue the process, pausing at each period or semicolon to ask for a paraphrase of what the speaker of the poem has said, literally.Is the second line add to the first line? Does it expand, clarify, or change the meaning of the first line? Go slowly, discussing each important word. Reveal the second line and ask how this second line enlarges the meaning of the first one.If there are unfamiliar words, define them and ask for secondary meanings which might enrich the texture of the poem.
#Close reading annotations series#
Ask students a series of guided questions as you reveal each line of the sonnet.
#Close reading annotations free#
She wrote "Nice Guys Finish Dead: Teaching Henry IV, Part I in High School" for the Shakespeare Set Free series.
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Authors: Louisa Newlin taught high school English for more than 40 years.