Annotation
What is annotation?
What is marking the text with questions, comments, connections, or notes
What is a summary?
What is a brief retelling of the most important information with just the facts, no opinions, and 3-5 sentences long
What is figurative language?
What is a way of using words and phrases to create a special effect that helps you express ideas more creatively
What is a plot?
What is the sequence of events that make up a story and shows how it develops
What is text evidence?
What is information or details directly from the text that supports your ideas and arguments
What should you annotate?
What are connections, questions, emotional impact, inferences, predictions, unknown words, and parts of the plot including characters and setting
What does a summary include?
What are who, what, where, why, and how
What is a simile?
What is a comparison using like or as
What are the 6 main elements in the plot diagram?
What are Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution
What are context clues?
What are hints found in the words or sentences to help you figure out what it means
In what ways can you respond to the text when annotating?
What are connections to personal experiences, knowledge of other stories, history, or current events, and inferences
What does S.W.B.S.T stand for?
What is Somebody Wanted But So Then
What is personification?
What is giving nonhuman things lifelike qualities
What two things are included in the exposition?
What are characters and plot
What is an inference?
What is using clues from the text and what we already know to understand something from the text
What details should you track when annotating text?
What are characters being introduced, important character information, setting, conflict, and parts of the plot
What does Somebody and Wanted mean?
What is Somebody are the characters and Wanted is what they wanted, describing the situation in the story
What is an onomatopoeia?
What is a word that sounds like the sound it's describing
What is the inciting incident?
What is the part that introduces the conflict
What are good inferences always supported by?
What is text evidence
Annotation is not....what things?
What are highlighting paragraphs, marking information without labels, writing comments on another page, and discussing text later
What does But So Then mean?
What is But is the problem, So is how the characters solved the problem, and Then is the resolution
What is an idiom?
What is a phrase that is not literal and means something different than the literal words used
What step is the conflict completely resolved in?
What is the resolution
Sergeant-Major Morris was a soldier in India and other far away places. He “spoke of wild scenes and doughty deeds; of wars and plagues and strange peoples.” Because “doughty deeds” is listed along with “wild scenes” and “strange peoples,” you can assume that stories about doughty deeds must be similar in some way to stories about wild scenes and strange peoples. Based on this, what do you think “doughty deeds” might mean? A. cowardly acts B. embarrassing incidents C. acts of bravery D. horrible mistakes
What is C, acts of bravery