A selection of recent links and posts I find interesting or useful.

• EnhancED Using Annotations for Close Reading Exercises – “Why close readings? Close reading emphasizes a search for meaning within important microcosms of a piece, such as a specific sentence of a poem or pigment in a tapestry, as a path to understanding a macrocosm, such as an author’s message, an historical event, or an entire culture. In the academy, those macrocosms could be the topic of a single lesson, a unit, or in some instances the subject of the course itself. “