The way I have been achieving my annotation goals is by asking more critical questions about the text.
The surrounding context of this essay is that it was written by a famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 2014 for the World Post. Yo-Yo Ma also started preforming at only five years old and has numerous accolades as well as a Harvard degree. The circumstance of this text for me personally is that it was assigned to me to read and annotate as homework for English 110 and the themes and material of this paper is presumably important for future classes as well as a future assigned essay. The intentional context of this paper basically boils down to that it is extremely important that we apply empathy and logic to everything we do and not stray to far in either direction as well as that diversity and keeping everything connected is a good things. Three words to gloss are meridians, repertoire, and virtuoso. A meridian is is an imaginary circle and in the context of the paper it was talking about the circles of influence in science and art. repertoire means a set of skills someone has and was used in the context of what skills musicians have. A virtuoso is someone highly skilled in music and it was used to describe musicians in the text.
