Objective: The students will know writing rules and close reading expectations.
1.
Welcome! Sit anywhere that you feel you can listen and learn without
interruptions or causing interruptions. We will make a seating chart
when the classes are balanced and all changes are made next week. Get
out three sheets of paper and a pen.
2. Roll and Intro: Supplies Needed
3. Formal Writing Rules copy to notes.
4. Close Reading Expectations copy to notes.
Supplies Needed for Honors
Lit: Warren
1.
One inch
three-ring binder
2.
5 dividers: Handouts, WPs, Notes, Assignments,
Tests/Quizzes
3.
Highlighters
4.
Blue or Black
Pens
5.
Pencils for tests
6.
Outside Book from
Honors Book List
7.
Study Sync Text
Book (take home and leave it there)
Warren’s Close Reading Rules and
Order of Tasks.
Every time
that I hand you a literary piece that has been copied in the office, you will
be required to Close Read.
When you close read, you will observe facts and
details about the text. You may focus on a particular passage, or on the text
as a whole. Your aim may be to notice all striking features of the text,
including rhetorical features, structural elements, cultural references;
literary devices, figurative language, and anything else that we learn during
the year.
To do this, you MUST have a pen and one or two
highlighters (I actually like to have many different colors).
"Annotating" means underlining or
highlighting key words and phrases—anything that strikes you as surprising or
significant, or that raises questions—as well as making notes in the margins”
(Harvard University).
Before you start to read:
1. Highlight and label
Title
2.Highlight and label
Author
3.Highlight and label
source (if it appeared in a publication)
4.Highlight and label the
date that it was written. When you do
this, think about what was happening in the world during the time period that
it was written.
5.If the piece is short,
number all the paragraphs.
While you read:
1. Keep in mind why you
are reading the piece (The Writing Prompt).
2.Highlight and annotate
in the margin.
3.Try to identify what
you are looking for (claims, evidence or TTSCANDI information).
Reread, reread and reread until you know the piece.
For Non-Fiction, you will want to try to identify
the:
Thesis
Claims
Evidence
that supports claims
TTSTCANDI
For Fiction, you will want to focus on:
TTSTCANDI
Sources:
Harvard
University Writing Center
