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The Double Highlighter Exercise requires 2 highlighters of different colors. You will actually be highlighting the assigned reading. If the reading is in your textbook, you will highlight the pages and bring your textbook with the highlighted pages to class. If you do not want to make highlighting marks directly in the book, make a photocopy of the pages, do the exercise on the photocopies, and bring the highlighted photocopies to class.

Decide which color highlighter is going to be for positive reactions (I agree with this, I like this, ...). The other color is going to be for negative reactions (I disagree with this, there are better ways to do this, ...).

Create a legend or key on the first page of the assigned reading that shows the two colors and what they stand for.

Read the assigned pages. As you go, highlight the text accordingly. There will be some text that is not highlighted. It's possible that one sentence will be split and you will have positive reactions for one part of the sentence and a negative reaction for the remaining part. For example, a sentence that says, "You need to address x by doing y" may cause you to highlight the "you need to address x" in your positive color because you agree that it needs to be addressed but you disagree with doing it in the way the author describes, so that portion is highlighted with the negative color.

Bring your highlighted pages with your legend/key to class for an interesting discussion. If after reading the assignment, you found nothing that you disagreed with or agreed with, write a two paragraph explanation of why you think that happened and bring that to class in addition to the unhighlighted text.