Annotating to me is extremely helpful when it comes to grasping the ideas present in the text. I tend to pull a lot of ideas of of the text and write them in the margins. In my second annotation I pull out information about the writer of the literacy narrative I was annotating. This helped me out later when I needed to make connections in the text and on the margins by writing all similar ideas next to each other in the margin. This helps me better understand and make relationships between ideas. In both the second and third annotation below I take the relationships I made and draw conclusions such as the type of narrative I was reading and certain peoples roles in the story such as a victim. Asking questions has also proved to be very helpful because they are usually discussed in class reading groups. They also help when I go back I can answer them after reading further in the text. In my second annotation where I question the type of narrative the writer is talking about. As Gilroy says in her article “interrogating” readings, pulling out information and later making those connections rewrites the words in a language you can better understand. In all the annotations below I pull important information into the margins. For example in annotation 3 where I clear up some information about the writers brother. However, the connections in my fourth annotation are the best. I summarize the ideas of the paragraph and what the author is saying in my own words. It was also really helpful to challenge ideas in writing to help create arguments or possible topics in a paper. In my blog post annotations of Brandt, Williams, and Alexander I tried to make connections not just within the texts but with the other scholarly articles we were reading. I take similar ideas, like Alexander and Williams ideas of sponsors and make connections.
Here are some of my blog post annotations!
