Read Chapter 5 of Becoming a Critical Thinker

Rubric

The document you submit should have (and will be graded on) all the following attributes:

• conforms to the Assignment Basics listed below
• conforms to Key Terms & Detailed Summary Note instructions
• clearly separates KT/D entries from the D/S

American literature class

• 6 Annotations per page including at least one of each of the following :

◦ Commentary

◦ Figurative Language (Literary and/or Sound Devices) 

◦ Text Connections

◦ Unknown Words (with definitions)

• 1 Summary per chapter (identified as bolded Roman Numerals in text)

◦ Should be a minimum of 3 complete sentences per summary demonstrating understanding of the text. 

This means you should have a minimum of 45 annotations for this assignment. 

To annotate, you will use the cursor highlight and comment function to complete your textual annotations, being sure to clearly identify (IN ALL CAPS) what type of annotation you are doing (i.e. COMMENTARY, SUMMARY, TEXT CONNECTION, UNKNOWN WORD, LITERARY DEVICE) and then explaining why you identified it, what it means, and/or what the connection is.