The first picture is an example of my annotations from class from the article, “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie.  In this type of annotation, I found specific words that I believed had meaning and circled them and drew an arrow to write my thoughts on them. I focused mainly on the summary of the article. I was able to make connections to deeper meanings of the article as I annotated. For example, I focused on what he was saying and how I interpreted that into a deeper meaning to figure out what was being said by Alexie. This process was different from the second picture as I used different ways of annotating.

In the second picture, it is a brief capture of my annotations from a piece by Susan Greenfield called, “Mind Change.” For my annotations, I used the method of chunking. In this method, I chunked each paragraph together and summarized the entire paragraph as a whole. This is different from the first one because I did not pick out specific words. Although I did not find specific words to highlight, I still found this method to be helpful as I was able to get a clear idea of what was being stated by Greenfield. Both ways of annotating included a summary. The summaries helped me remember what the article was arguing and state the main ideas. Overall, both ways of annotating were effective for me for the process of active reading.