For each text, you are required to make 4 annotations, choosing from among these:

1. Reply to one of my pre-populated questions or notes in the text.
2. Look up a difficult word, a person with whom you are unfamiliar, or an unknown allusion and explain its/their meaning and significance in the context of text.
3. Annotate a passage that is confusing to you and frame a historical question about it.
4. Rephrase a passage, explaining what is being said and what logical inferences can be made.
5. Identify the broader social and historical context at work in a specific passage.
6. What is your opinion or interpretation of a particular claim, and what is the evidence for it?

source: Humboldt Journal of Social Relations , 1991, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1991), pp. 111-143

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