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    AP Lang Annotating Guide

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    This document provides guidance on how to effectively annotate texts. It recommends pre-reading texts to understand themes and rhetorical strategies before annotating. Annotating is important for close reading, class discussions, writing assignments, and exams. The document outlines common annotation methods like underlining, circling, numbering, and connecting ideas. It suggests writing notes in margins to summarize paragraphs, define terms, note questions, patterns, language usage, arguments, and significance of marked passages. Annotations should explain the context and meaning of marked passages to be useful when revisiting texts.

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    This document provides guidance on how to effectively annotate texts. It recommends pre-reading texts to understand themes and rhetorical strategies before annotating. Annotating is important for close reading, class discussions, writing assignments, and exams. The document outlines common annotation methods like underlining, circling, numbering, and connecting ideas. It suggests writing notes in margins to summarize paragraphs, define terms, note questions, patterns, language usage, arguments, and significance of marked passages. Annotations should explain the context and meaning of marked passages to be useful when revisiting texts.

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    This document provides guidance on how to effectively annotate texts. It recommends pre-reading texts to understand themes and rhetorical strategies before annotating. Annotating is important for close reading, class discussions, writing assignments, and exams. The document outlines common annotation methods like underlining, circling, numbering, and connecting ideas. It suggests writing notes in margins to summarize paragraphs, define terms, note questions, patterns, language usage, arguments, and significance of marked passages. Annotations should explain the context and meaning of marked passages to be useful when revisiting texts.

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    AP Lang Annotating Guide

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    Caroline Rhude
    This document provides guidance on how to effectively annotate texts. It recommends pre-reading texts to understand themes and rhetorical strategies before annotating. Annotating is important for close reading, class discussions, writing assignments, and exams. The document outlines common annotation methods like underlining, circling, numbering, and connecting ideas. It suggests writing notes in margins to summarize paragraphs, define terms, note questions, patterns, language usage, arguments, and significance of marked passages. Annotations should explain the context and meaning of marked passages to be useful when revisiting texts.

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    Ms.

    Rhude
    AP Lang

    Annotating
    Before annotating, pre-read the text to discover the themes, points, language, and
    rhetorical strategies the author uses in developing meaning in the text.
    Annotating is essential for close and critical reading of texts in preparation for class discussions/
    seminars, writing assignments, analyses research, and test/exam responses. If you have
    purchased your texts, please take the opportunity to mark them. If you have not, take notes in
    your literary journal or use post-its to take notes. Establishing a structured method of annotating
    will assist you throughout this class and in college, situations where close reading contributes to
    success. Furthermore, annotating helps you dissect difficult texts and discern meaning from
    them.
    Follow the common methods of annotating:

    Circle phrases you find pithy, represent repetitive themes or images (motifs), and/or
    reveal figurative language
    Note shifts in pronoun usage/ narrative point of view
    Circle key words the author uses for their connotative meaning (rather than literal)
    Circle words you need to define in the margin (and remember to define them and add
    them to your vocabulary notebook)
    Underline sentences that stand out, develop an argument, or make a point
    Number or make connected for related points
    Bracket important sections of text
    Connect important ideas, words, or phrases with arrows

    In the margins:
    Summarize and number each paragraph (for shorter pieces).
    Define the unfamiliar terms.
    Note any questions that come to mind
    Note possible connotative meanings of circled words
    Note any significant patterns or motifs.
    Identify any outstanding language usage or writing strategies you discover.
    Identify points or arguments.
    Remember, dont simply mark a passage without stating why in the margins. Never rely on your
    memory because when referring back to your marks, you may not recall the context in which you
    first encountered the marked passaged, so it becomes meaningless unless you reread.

    Created by R. Gunnar, Edited by C. Rhude

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