Do you read a lot of nonfiction, other than newspapers and magazines? What approach do you usually take to reading nonfiction? Have you ever annotated a piece of nonfiction, reading it closely and making notes about the text? If so, how has that helped you to understand the text better? If you’ve never annotated a text, do you feel there are parts to reading nonfiction that you find confusing?

Media project total score: of 100 points during the next several lessons you will create a media project about a place that is important to you, such as the place where you live. your teacher will score your assignment using the media project grading rubric. look at the rubric yourself so that you know how your assignment will be scored. you may create your project using a word processing presentation program or a slide program such as powerpoint®. include a title slide, two or three content slides, and a sources slide that contains the urls of your online sources. save the document to your computer with your name at the end of the filename (e.g., ng_ela 9-10_w_11_ga alice_jones). submit that document to your teacher for grading refer to the media project assignment document and follow the steps to complete the assignment. when you have finished, submit the assignment document to your teacher for grading.