I feel like I am achieving my annotation goals because I am looking at text a little more critically, instead of just reading through. For example, when I annotated Yo-Yo Ma’s article, “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education.”
The surrounding context for this essay is as follows; the author is Yo-Yo Ma and his article was published first on World-Post in 2014. In his Bio, he talks about how he has won many awards over the years, from Grammy Awards to Kennedy Center Honoree in 2011. The bio contains many other well-known people that have many accomplishments. His bio is not just about him it is about his article that he has below his bio.
I have to read this for English class which provides a circumstantial context. But along with that, the purpose of this text is to help further my active reading practices and to make you think if art should be incorporated into the science and mathematical part of learning.
The situation of the article is to make the audience think about how incorporating art in science and mathematical parts of learning will create an equilibrium and “produces a global culture.” This balance of art and sciences provides the right amount of each topic that is essential to how the world works today.
Glossing:
I now understand and know what bolster, bandwidth, and lascivious after looking them up. Also seeing their meanings makes the text easier to understand when I was not quite sure what Yo-Yo Ma meant when he used these words.
Your annotations look great! I can see a real conversation occurring in the margins. Keep up the good work.