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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." ~John F. Kennedy

English Fury Explains…
R.A.W. Mastery™
--and how to obtain it--
Overview: Reading and writing shouldn't be intimidating to any student, and it does not have to be! Using this strategy is proven to boost writing ability and critical and creative thinking, which improves confidence and empowers students to take charge of their learning.
 
Reading, annotating and writing, enables students to effectively interact with and dig deep into the text as they read. Soon, as they question, define, identify, draw conclusions and make connections, students will be reading thoroughly, thinking critically and writing intentionally.

Your annotation and color-marking skills are a direct reflection of your ability to read actively.

Reading
Overview: Inferencing is a critical thinking strategy where readers make educated guesses about text. To extract these ideas, it’s important to be able to analyze text, vocabulary, characters, the author’s craft, sentence structure and more as you’re reading!
 
Benefits:
  • Awakens HOTS (higher order thinking skills)
  • Promotes global thinking
  • Intensifies text engagement
  • Question the validity of the author’s thought-process
  • Stimulates changes in thinking
  • Good readers become great writers
Annotating
Overview: Annotating is definitely different than note-taking, which if done incorrectly, is ineffective. Annotating improves the depth of reading and understanding. It’s personal, so your system prompts a “relationship” with your text and the author.
 
Benefits:
  • Makes inferencing easier
  • Develops better understanding
  • Learn words in context
  • Detect perspectives
  • Analyze characters
  • Identify historical context/traditions
  • Analyze the author’s craft
  • Question the text
  • Make connections to text
  • Recognize literary devices
  • Apply text to real-world concepts
Writing:
​thawriter’s toolbox
™
Overview: Like a carpenter uses his tools to craft structural masterpieces, you can draft EPIC Content™ or Engaging Powerful Informative Creative Content™ using these tools from thawriter’s toolbox™. It’s your recipe for literary athleticism.
 
Benefits:
  • Strengthen by showing not telling
  • Blend in literary devices
  • Immerse in rhetorical appeal
  • Boost with diction/vocabulary
  • Fortify with figurative language
  • Grind in grammar/mechanics
  • Toss with transitions
  • Soak in specificity (details!)
  • Amplify with active voice
  • Steep in structure/style

Annotation Markings
Overview: Develop your own annotation marks or use these as a guide to get started!

Circle=vocabulary
​i=inferences
[  ]=make notes
*=important text
?=question text
        highlighter=highlight perspectives

How to Annotate
•Identify diction
•Make connections
•Converse with the text
•Consider all perspectives
•Make inferences
•Paraphrase
•Categorize patterns
•Analyze characters
•Examine SPEECH patterns/traditions
•Highlight literary devices
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...here are the literary devices you'll look for:
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Samples

BEHOLD! Annotating is NOT summarizing text in the margins. Annotating is making inferences about the text, devices, language, characters, diction, S.P.E.E.C.H. context and more!
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