Annotation and Textual Analysis Practice

 Instructions Please use the language level for the paragraph that looks like a freshman English student Discussion on the article “The American Debate” write a paragraph Use the Highlights and Notes tool to highlight and annotate as you read. please select text, you are required to highlight or add notes. Read the article more than once! Once you have annotated the article please attach and send the article and the annotations with the paragraph separately Think: Think about the answers to the following questions: What is the article’s thesis or purpose? Who is the intended audience? What is the article’s tone? Is the writing formal or informal? Is it emotional or logical? Humorous or serious? Are there any words or language choices that stand out to you? Does the writer use descriptive or figurative language? Write: Write a paragraph describing the writer’s choices and discussing your impression of the article. Which of your observations do you think are most important to the article’s purpose and effectiveness? Use at least one quotation from the text to support your ideas. Be sure to use a correctly formatted in-text citation, using MLA Style, for that quotation and then create a Works Cited entry to correspond to that citation. Please attach the article with your annotations The article Full Text: Today we celebrate one Independence Day, though, with so many versions of America, it’s hard to know how to reconcile them all. All across the country, we differ, sometimes gently, often sharply, on what rights obtain, what liberty allows, what freedom permits. That tension is characteristically American. Even on our best days — and the Fourth of July is one of them — we seem more pluribus than unum, though your neighbor’s idea of who belongs to our pluribus may be radically different from yours. Given the nature of our founding and the documents that created this country, we seem destined to quarrel endlessly about who we are and who we’re supposed to be. This sounds like a flaw, but, in fact, it’s a peculiarly American virtue. Our history may read like a narrative, but it’s really a debate, sometimes bloody, usually peaceful, but always unresolved. We remain divided on nearly all the major elements of our constitution: the role of religion, the balance between federal and state authority, the risks and consequences of unlimited opportunity, the boundary between self-reliance and shared responsibility. On the Fourth of July in an election year, we find ourselves clamoring for a clear description of something politicians rarely talk about clearly. What should America look like? Who should we be to each other? There is too often a starkness to the American language of opportunity, as if you deserve what you get if you don’t get what you want, as if we were a loose confederation of individuals instead of a people. It is fine to sit back and watch the fireworks in the night. But the Fourth of July isn’t a day off from something. It’s a holiday for rethinking who we are. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) “The American Debate.” New York Times, 4 July 2012, p. A22(L). Global Issues in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A295196955/GIC?u=aur58810&sid=GIC&xid=61be2e38. Accessed 4 July 2019.