Connections A Hypertext Resource for Literature

Annotation #2

This assignment builds the skills you have practiced in our earlier assignments by adding an element of reading across two texts. Here are the steps of the assignment, which is due by 7:00 p.m. Iowa time on Friday.

After you create your version of your passage, you can mark it up by hand or in a digital environment. Either way, place the results in your Classwork Document in a way that shows me how you have worked through every step of the assignment. Here are the steps, which start out the same as the earlier close reading assignment and then diverge:

  1. Choose a passage that intrigues you from one of this week's readings. The passage should be about a third of a page long.
  2. Isolate the passage by typing it into your own document. (You can also use an online text as a starting point, but if you do so, be very careful to edit the text to match your textbook, since online versions of these texts may not reflect contemporary editing.)
  3. Read your passage out loud at least once. (This step does not need to be visible in the work you turn in.)
  4. Read the passage carefully, marking anything that strikes you as interesting, unusual, weird, or otherwise exceptional. Try to capture something specific about each of your reactions in the margins.
  5. Look up any words you don’t know and add a word or two of definition in the margin.
  6. Find three connections at the level of the word between your text and the other Woolf text we read this week. (If your passage is from Mrs. Dalloway, look at A Room of One's Own to make the connections, or vice versa. Find these connections by choosing words from your passage and searching for them in the other text until you make three connections that interest you. You can use electronic texts for Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own for your searches. Write down the three words and your reasons for choosing them in the form of comments on your text.
  7. Finally, create two connections at the level of concepts or ideas between your passage and the other text, and write those down as well. Again, write these as comments on your passage, so that each concept comes attached to a specific word or phrase.