RULES OF NOTICE

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RULES OF NOTICE

• Annotating Texts

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Using the Rules of Notice to guide you, annotate
a passage from your book. It should be at least
20 lines long. Mr. Nauss usually chooses
this.Copy the passage carefully into your
notebook using your pen double-spaced. I will
copy one for you when I can ?
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Annotate the Passage
What is important about this passage? Why this
passage is something to be noticed?
Rules of Notice
Reading is Thinking
Reading and Viewing
What are you thinking when you read this passage?
Questions, connections, definitions,
visualizations, statements, etc
What does this passage show you about the
setting, plot, characters, theme, literary
devices, etc
Elements of Fiction
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What to Include

• Can you put annotating in your own words?
• Passage from your book why important?
• Reflection
• What realization or deeper understanding about
  your book did you come to from doing your close
  reading?
• Thinking of this passage, and of your book as a
  hold, answer the following question How does
  this story help you to make sense of the world?

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Level 1- External from your brain

• Titles, Beginnings, Endings
• Repetition
• Comparison/Contrast
• Font Size
• Unexpected Events
• Character Response
• Visuals Graphic depictions

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Level 2 Your Personal Thinking

• 1st read thoughts and impressions
• Questions
• Connections
• Predictions
• Inferences (including cause/effect)
• Patterns and Motifs

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Level 3 (Def-Con 3!) Highest Alert Level Brain
must be ready!!

• Notice story structure and elements of fiction
• Conflict and complications
• Character (development and Characteristics
• Rising Action (plot development)
• Climax
• Author Technique
• Figurative Language (especially poetry) (Ex.
  Irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, metaphor)
• Overall function of the passage itself. What if
  it were cut out of the larger text. Would it
  matter?

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Materials Needed for the Job!

• 1. Highlighter (varied colours if possible
• 2. Pens (varied colours if possible)
• 3. Pencil
• 4. Coloured pencil yes they really work!
• 5. Other??? Can you think of any that will not
  cover text in a negative way?? Bring them!!

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So how do we do this?

• Underline, star, highlight, box, circle whatever
  words, phrases, or sentences that catch your
  attention.
• Write brief comments in the margins

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What sorts of things do we look for again?
(table style)
Alliteration oxymoron
Allusion paradox
Ambiguity parallel construction
Archetypes pattern
Assonance personification
characterization prose
denotation/connotation rhetorical question
diction rhyme
epic poetry setting
Euphemism simile
first person point of view soliloquy
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Are there more? Yes!!
Foreshadowing stream of consciousness
free verse style-formal, informal
hyperbole symbolism
Imagery synesthesia
interior monologue syntax
irony-dramatic, verbal, situational third person limited
lyric poetry third person omniscient
metaphor time shifts
meter repetition tone
narrative poetry tragedy
naturalistic detail understatement
onomatopoeia  
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Why oh Why?????

• Annotating makes you think carefully about what
  you are reading. Reading is thinking!! You are
  extending this thinking by making notes
• Annotating can help you make decisions about what
  is important
• It is a great tool for writing about literature,
  for example, commentaries, essays, short answers,
  paragraph responses, etc.

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What does it Look Like?
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Any questions?

• This should be stressed all the way through high
  school
• You should employ it at all times wherever
  possible.
• You will not only look smarter but your mark
  should reflect this work you do.