I've annotated nearly 4 books this year and am onto my fifth, and man am I proud! It took a lot of patience and energy to analyze concepts that I'm not ordained to. I can confidently say that my work has paid off. I've never delved so deeply into books as I have this year. My friends have always told me I tend to over analyze people, so I expended that energy into the books we've read this year. Although it was frustrating to find deeper connotations in some of our works, I'm glad that I was forced to do it. It even taught me how to manage my time. I never crammed to get my annotations done as some other people may have done, I always created a time line for myself and stayed on task.
Good for your amazing time management skills! (I wish I had the motivation to start annotations a couple weeks before, but they usually are started the weekend before :) ) Which one did you think was hardest to annotate? Do you have one you liked annotating the most?
ReplyDeleteI love annotating and I agree that at the beginning it was hard to get into it.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I still have not managed to time out my annotations like you have! (good job!)
This would be a good place for info on allusions, Foster, close reading, history of lit, critical lenses, DIDLS, and so on.
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