Instructions for completing today's packet.
1. Put your MLA heading on top of the paper.
2. Number the paragraphs.
3. Skim the document and read the questions.
4. Annotate the article
- Underline main ideas
- Put an ! next to important information
- Put a ? next to things you don't understand
- Circle words you don't know, look them up in the dictionary, and write the definitions in the margin
- Take notes in the left margin
- Write your questions/comments in the right margin.
5. Answer the questions.
- Indicate in the margin the paragraph number where you found the information that answers the question.
- Make sure you put a ! next to that information
6. Choose only one of the writing prompts.
- Record the GYRR bullets
- Write your GYRR sentences
7. Double check EVERYTHING.