Annotation

Today we began with DEAR time. Unfortunately, almost all of you forgot your books. This is unacceptable. This is your time every Tuesday and Friday to read what you want for your own enjoyment. Please do not forget to bring in a book this Friday because then you'll be stuck doing vocab sheets, and we'd much rather you read.

The HOMS quiz was relatively simple. If you read, you should have had no problem with it.

As for annotation, this is a skill we'll be working on the entire semester. A lot of you already know how to chunk and summarize small parts, but annotation is so much more than that. Here are the main things you need to know:

--Highlight/Underline important information
--Circle unknown vocabulary words and define them
--Summarize small chunks of text
--Add commentary in the margins

As for the vignettes you read, "The House on Mango Street" and "Hairs," these two vignettes were packed with visual imagery as well as figurative language. It's your job to highlight and make reflections about these things in the margins. Because Sandra's writing is so sparse, you need to make sure that you're not going highlighter crazy. Only highlight information that is vital.

Here are the main points we talked about today:

--the narrator (Esperanza) and the author (Sandra Cisneros) are not the same person. (Remember, this is a book of fiction).
--Esperanza has moved around a lot and has had a rough childhood because of it
--Esperanza now lives on Mango Street, but it's not the house of her dreams. She is ashamed of it.
--Esperanza describes her family by describing their hair.

For homework, you must write a journal entry about something you're embarassed about. Don't get confused with this. You're not to write about something embarassing that happened to you, but something you're embarassed about. For example, don't write about a time that you slipped and feel and everyone laughed at you and it was really embarassing, but you can write about being embarassed about being clumsy. See the difference? You can be embarassed of a lot of thing--your house, the car your family drives, your mom, a friend, how you look, etc. Be honest and be detailed. This should not be anything less than two paragraphs.

To submit it, go to Schoology. Under Assignments, click on Embarassment Journal. Then, click on the plus sign at the top right. Click dropbox submissions. Write your paragraphs in the text box, then click submit when you're done.

If you have any questions, please email me or Mr. Hannah. Also, today was the last day for I Am Poem submissions, so if you didn't turn it in, it's a zero.

Tomorrow we'll be working on a really fun activity; however, if you don't do the homework assignment you will not be allowed to participate.

DEETS:
In-class:
--DEAR time
--HOMS Quiz 1
--Annotation

HW:
--Embarassament Journal on Schoology