Annotating & Thesis Statements
It is the least active form of annotating: instead of being a way to begin thinking and interacting, it can become a postponement of the process....
What is highlighting?
When the top line touch the left margin, but all following lines are single-spaced and indented 5 spaces....
What is a hanging indent?
Education, family, success, opportunity, and equality are all values of....
What is the American Dream?
The system of government in Salem during this time was?
What is a theocracy?
Quality or degree of excellence?
What is caliber?
This is a main claim and tells readers why they're reading a text.
What is a thesis statement?
Belongs at the end of a research paper and is organized by alphabetically by author's last name.
What is a works cited page?
The Jazz Age, flappers, prohibition, the cultural civil war, Harlem Renaissance, and emergence of the KKK...
What is the Roaring 20s?
The Crucible takes place in?
What are the late 1600s?
To make an orderly connection or mutual relationship between different item.
What is correlate?
We annotate to begin engaging with ideas and issues directly through....
What are comments, questions or associations?
When citing a book, how is the title written?
What is in italics?
A known drunk, self-acclaimed failure, and became most famous posthumously.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A porcelain piece of lab equipment used to contain chemical compounds or a container in which metals are molten; a term often used for unrelated things that are difficult.
What is a crucible?
The weight of an empty container or vehicle or the allowance made for the wight of a container.
What is tare?
A thesis statement must be two things:
What is narrow/specific and debatable/arguable?
And then to assume authority, Abby menacingly threatens the other girls:
Now look you. All of you. We danced, And Tituba conjured Ruth Putman’s dead sisters. And that is all.. And mark this—let either of you breath a word , or the edge of a word about the other things, and I will come on you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you... (Miller 1.353-364)
What is a long quotation?
A symbol, from the book, representing the "close, yet far" attempt to attain love, wealth and the American Dream?
What is the green light?
Near 60 years old, but is discovered pregnant in court.
Who is Sarah Good?
Freedom from narrow limits or the angular distance north or south of the equator of the earth's surface.
What is latitude?
An over-reliance due to a high tendency to highlight more information than necessary.
What is a downfall of highlighting?
(Miller 1.22-45)
What is a parenthetical citation (of a play)?
Is a symbol of the working class, and the collateral carelessness and lack of respect inflicted by the high-class or old money?
Who is George Wilson?
Who said, “I am a stranger here, as you know. And in my ignorance I find it hard to draw a clear opinion of them that come accused before the court.”
Who is Rev. Hale?
What is incidence?