Analyzing Literature and Annoting Text
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Analyzing
Literature and
Annotating Text
Ben Lusk
Session Goals
Engage
in works of literature
Struggle with rhetorical situations
Annotate texts
Develop rhetorical questions
Share/model with students
Understand the need for interesting and
thought provoking materials
Purposes for Academic
Reading
To master a course’s key concepts and ideas
To understand and apply the discipline’s
characteristic ways of thinking
What questions does this discipline ask?
What questions have been answered?
What questions still need to be answered?
How does it acquire new information?
What is acceptable evidence?
How do you write arguments in this discipline?
Questions Rhetorical Readers
Ask
Resource 1
Meaningful Questions
Meaningful Journaling/Reading Logs
Anticipation Guides
The Parlor Metaphor
Resource 2
What is conversation? What is its purpose?
What is a metaphor? How does it function?
Symbolic Drama and Action
When entering a “conversation”, what
questions must a person ask to gain historical
and future perspective?
How do new “frames” of perspective affect
the conversation before, now, and in the
future?
Poetical Explication and
Annotation
Resource 3
Annotation is the key to success with
poetry
Students suffer from immediate
interpretitus
Building a firm foundation
Framing the structure
Decorating the interior
Prose Explication and
Annotation
Resource 4
Annotation is the key to success with
prose
Students do not mark their thoughts
Building a firm foundation
Framing the structure
Decorating the interior