Your students don't know what to annotate. So they annotate nothing — or they highlight everything and call it done.These desk cards solve that problem before you even hand out the passage. Each card gives students a concrete, essay-type-specific annotation system for all three AP Lang essay types — rhetorical analysis, argument, and synthesis — on one quarter-sheet card that sits on their desk while they read. No more "what am I supposed to be looking for?" No more passive highlighting. Student