Learning Task 1 Annotation

An annotation is extra information associated with a particular place in a text. An annotation can be a comment or an explanation.

Annotation is a good way to:
• Keep track of key ideas and questions
• Help you to think more deeply about what you have read
• Analyze and interpret a text
• Help you make inferences and draw conclusions about a text
• Help you easily find something in a text again without having to reread it

DIRECTIONS: Read and annotate the assigned text. Use the symbols presented below.

Underline key ideas or main points
? write next to anything you don’t understand
Encircle key words and phrases
! write next to anything that helps you make a connection, or next to anything that you find surprising or particularly important

Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116)
William Shakespeare - 1564-1616

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.

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