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This week, we began annotating Charlotte’s Web. Annotating allows us to take a deeper look into the text and all of the choices an amazing author like E.B. White made when writing, revising, and editing his classic story. As we annotate, we should be looking for the following items/literary devices: alliteration, lists, sensory details, changes (in season, character, etc.), repetition, the theme of love and friendship, “small but mighty” character traits, interesting vocabulary, and anything else that caught our attention. An example of how to annotate Chapter 1 is below.

Click here for a PDF of the full annotated version of Chapter 1.