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Midterm English 9
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Literary Text | Fiction, Stories, Poems |
| Informational Texts | Nonfiction, history/science |
| General Annotation | The process of taking notes or marking a text during a first read |
| Specific Annotation | Actively engaging with a text by adding targeted notes |
| Highlighting | To mark or underline something important to go back to it |
| Hunt and Peck Research | Technique where you go to different websites and skim through without reading everything |
| Modern Language Association (MLA) | Develops a specific style guide for formatting |
| Works Cited Page | An alphabetical list of all sources directly cited within a research paper |
| Works Cited Entry | Detailed citation for a specific source you used in a paper |
| Parenthetical/ In-text Citation | Method of referencing that places the author’s name inside parentheses at the end of a sentence |
| Currency | C in Crap |
| Reliability | R in Crap |
| Authority | A in Crap |
| Purpose | P in Crap |
| Informational Writing | A type of nonfiction writing that aims to educate the reader about a specific topic |
| Reading Critically | Actively analyzing, questioning, and evaluating a text beyond its surface level to understand a deeper understanding |
| Hunt and Peck Reading | To skim a text for a specific answer but not reading the article |
| Freewriting | An exercise when a writer doesn’t stop writing for a certain amount of time |
| Focused Freewriting/ Looping | Pulling ideas out of a freewrite to be more specific |
| General Subject | Broad topic or area of study such as language |
| Specific Topic | Clearly defined subject of discussion of a theme |
| Signpost Annotations | A list of different annotations that can be applied to a reading to better understand |
| Vocabulary Annotations | Marking words that you do not understand and looking up the meaning |
| Cornell Notes | Taking notes based off of main points from the reading |
| Re-state Thesis | Without copy and paste rehash the idea of your thesis without using the exact same wording/sentence structure |
| Summary | After restating your thesis statement, summarize the main points of your essay but with a twist |
| So What? | Include a powerful note that is memorable for you reader and explain why this essay has mattered to you |
| Holocaust | The killing of over 6 million Jews by Nazi Germans during the time of World War ll |
| Jew | A member of a religious community |
| Synagogue | A building where the Jewish congregation meets for the religious worship |
| Anti-Semitic | The awful violence and discrimination against the Jews |
| Topic Sentence | A sentence that expresses the main idea |
| Introduce Evidence | To present supporting information in an argument |
| Cite Evidence | To use information from a source to support a claim |
| Explain Evidence | The available body of facts or information whether a belief is true |
| Concluding/Transition Sentence | A word or phrase that signals the end of a paragraph |
| ICE | Acronym for evidence in a paragraph introduce, cite, explain |
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Lukeboehm