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This worksheet will test how well you’re creating and linking markers together. Since this is such an integral part of the

SuperLearner method, it’s important that you pay careful attention to this worksheet.

Instructions:

● Read the text below, one box at a time

● After reading each box, choose at least one concept that you feel is appropriate for setting a marker

● In the left column, highlight or underline the words that represent your markers

● In the middle column, write out what your marker is, with a few speciﬁc details, and why you chose it

● In the right column, draw a simple sketch of what the marker might look like (optional)

This will help you train the idea of pausing to generate a marker for each important detail. Take note of the points at which

we have broken the text apart, based on when we feel a new marker should be generated.

When you’re done, check the answer key to see how your markers stack up against Anna’s, and why some markers are

better than others.

Excerpts From: “Anna Karenina.” Tolstoy, Leo.

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Original Text (Highlight or Underline) My Marker Looks Like... Sketch It Out (Optional)

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is

unhappy in its own way.

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Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house.

The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying

on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a

governess in their family, and she had announced to her

husband that she could not go on living in the same

house with him.

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This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and

not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the

members of their family and household, were painfully

conscious of it.

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Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in

their living together, and that the stray people brought

together by chance in any inn had more in common with

one another than they, the members of the family and

household of the Oblonskys.

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The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had

not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all

over the house; the English governess quarreled with the

housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out

for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off

the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and

the coachman had given warning.

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Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch

Oblonsky—Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable

world— woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock

in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the

leather-covered sofa in his study.

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He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the

springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep

again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other

side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped

up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.

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“Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his

dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving

a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something

American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes,

Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the

tables sang, Il mio tesoro—not Il mio tesoro though, but

something better, and there were some sort of little

decanters on the table, and they were women, too," he

remembered.”

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Linking the markers: How would you link these markers together after ﬁnishing the section?

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Original Text (Selected Detail In Red) Marker Examples What It Might Look Like

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy

family is unhappy in its own way.

✔: A picture of your own family that might describe how you are

unique - for example, a special tradition you have of wearing the

same colors for Christmas photos. Picture the scene speciﬁcally.

Why? repeat many times, which family does it refer to

✗: A generic picture of an unhappy or happy family.

Why? This is something that you might automatically visualize

(and that’s a good thing), however, it is not the main point of the

paragraph, and therefore, you might only remember a picture of a

happy or unhappy family, and not the punch line.

ANSWER KEY

Check the answers below to see how your markers compared to the ones Anna suggests, and read the explanations of why

some markers are better than others.

IMPORTANT: You probably will not have the same markers as Anna - that is not the goal. Your markers, should, however, be

similarly descriptive, detailed, and have the same characteristics that would make them ﬁt with the “Why?” explanations behind

Anna’s good marker examples.

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Original Text (Selected Detail In Red) Marker Examples What It Might Look Like

Everything was in confusion in the

Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered

that the husband was carrying on an intrigue

with a French girl, who had been a

governess in their family, and she had

announced to her husband that she could

not go on living in the same house with him.

✔: A picture of a French maid dressed in a black and white,

perhaps scandalously dressed, or even just a picture of a famous

French actress you might already know.

Why? The idea that the husband was misbehaving with a French

woman is the “trigger” if you will, which presents the core of the

issue. It’s also the easiest and most memorable thing to

transform into a visual marker in this entire paragraph. We all

know an image of a French made or French actress which is a

long-standing existing memory. The scandalousness is also a

detail of the text - she’s having an affair with a married man!

✗: An image trying to illustrate the concept of “inﬁdelity.”

Why? This is an abstract concept which is alluded to but not

directly stated in the paragraph,, and while it is the main point of

this paragraph, it is much more diﬃcult to visualize and less

memorable than the familiar image of a French made.

(Very diﬃcult to imagine!)

This position of affairs had now lasted three

days, and not only the husband and wife

themselves, but all the members of their

family and household, were painfully

conscious of it.

✔: A calendar icon with the letter 3 on it, or a row of calendar

days with 3 days X’d off in red.

Why? Three days is the outcome of the situation. We already

know that everyone else is conscious of it because we visualized

the whole family before.

✗: A picture trying to illustrate the concept of everyone being

“painfully conscious” of the situation.

Why? It’s extremely diﬃcult to try and visualize an image of

people being “painfully conscious,” and furthermore, the main

point of the paragraph is to show how long this has gone on.

(Very diﬃcult to imagine!)

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Every person in the house felt that there was

no sense in their living together, and that the

stray people brought together by chance in

any inn had more in common with one

another than they, the members of the

family and household of the Oblonskys.

✔: A situation you’re familiar with in which unrelated people have

been brought together by chance, for example a serendipitous

meeting between two lovers who meet in a supermarket

completely by chance, or even the characters on the show LOST,

brought together under strange and mysterious circumstances.

Why? This concept nicely explains how the family is feeling,

which is the point of this paragraph. Emotions are highly

memorable, and this one is an easy one to visualize.

✗: A picture of an inn or motel that you’ve been in.

Why? While this might be an easy thing to visualize, the idea of

the inn is loosely connected to the emotion or point the author is

trying to describe - it will be diﬃcult to draw a connection

between them.

The wife did not leave her own room, the

husband had not been at home for three

days. The children ran wild all over the

house; the English governess quarreled with

the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend

asking her to look out for a new situation for

her; the man-cook had walked off the day

before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid,

and the coachman had given warning.

✔: There are many good options here. You may be able to

automatically visualize each of these characters doing what the

author has described: the woman sequestered in her bedroom,

the housekeeper and the governess arguing, or the cook leaving

with his things on his shoulders. Anna visualizes children running

wild, like in the book Lord of the Flies. Jon pictures a sort of

cutaway scene from the top of the house where you can see the

mother in one corner crying in a closed room, kids running like

crazy, and different workmen freaking out or leaving (sort of a

compound marker).

Why? Again, emotion is highly memorable. Anna chose

something that is personally relevant and memorable to her (as a

mom). (Continued on next page)

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(Continued from previous page) Jon chose to visualize the chaos and the employees’ sense of

frustration, which is more relevant to him as a businessman, for

example. Either way, these are highly visual and emotional images

which accurately summarize the overall feeling the author tries to

convey.

✗: Some general picture of chaos, without speciﬁc characters

performing speciﬁc actions.

Why? The speciﬁc actions of speciﬁc characters will be more

memorable than a mob of angry people running around. It’s better

to remember one speciﬁc person and how they are reacting to the

breakdown of the family than to try and summarize it without

detail.

Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan

Arkadyevitch Oblonsky—Stiva, as he was

called in the fashionable world— woke up at

his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the

morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on

the leather-covered sofa in his study.

✔: The leather covered sofa is an easy image to visualize - we

may visualize an old-fashioned red-maroon sofa with rivets

holding in the stuﬃng and wood accents on the arms.

Why? This is the emphasis point that shows that things are not

normal. Everything else is business as usual - but wait, why is a

Prince sleeping on a sofa? That seems ridiculous and

memorable.

✗: A visualization of a prince standing around with a royal outﬁt.

Why? Yes, this is a great visualization and very easy to generate

(so if it pops into your head automatically, that’s great!), but it

won’t remind us of the main point - which is that the prince is

sleeping on the sofa.

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He turned over his stout, well-cared-for

person on the springy sofa, as though he

would sink into a long sleep again; he

vigorously embraced the pillow on the other

side and buried his face in it; but all at once

he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and

opened his eyes.

✔: We can visualize our prince sleeping and embracing the pillow

comfortably, unaffected.

Why? This shows that he was pretty relaxed, he’s not losing sleep

over the issue. It’s also a pretty easy thing to visualize now that

we know what the sofa looks like (and may have an image for the

prince himself, too).

✗: The prince jumping up from the sofa.

Why? This isn’t the ﬂow of the text - the author clearly wants to

show that the prince wasn’t bothered, and then he was. If there’s

important information about him being alarmed, it’s not in this

paragraph, and we’ll create a marker for it when we come to it.

“Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought,

going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To

be sure! Alabin was giving a dinner at

Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but

something American. Yes, but then,

Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was

giving a dinner on glass tables, and the

tables sang, Il mio tesoro—not Il mio tesoro

though, but something better, and there

were some sort of little decanters on the

table, and they were women, too," he

remembered.”

✔: An image of a dream - maybe a cloud above someone’s head,

in which someone is sitting in America doing something clearly in

America, for example they are dining with some famous

American. The author later gives us the details of glass tables, so

we can add those details in to our marker.

Why? This is a diﬃcult paragraph, written in confusing language.

We need to get the full picture of the dream, combined with some

dinner, but we don’t have enough information to visualize what’s

happening at the dinner beyond what’s on the table and who’s

around it. We don’t yet know what details are important - even the

idea that it’s in America may turn out to be unimportant, and so

we have to take our best guess.

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(Continued from previous page) ✗: A vague image of someone waking up from a dream, startled.

Why? This doesn’t give the pertinent information - what was the

dream about? Why is the dream important? Why did it wake the

subject?

Linking the markers:

At this point, we may take a pause, and work on reviewing and linking the markers together. Can you “play back” 80-90% of the visual markers you

created like a movie or ﬁlm strip, preferably in order, and use them to explain the key concepts of everything you just read?

Because this is a ﬁctional story with a speciﬁc logical ﬂow, linking the markers is easy: it should follow the logical ﬂow of the concepts and ideas as

they’re presented by the author, rather than some random amalgamation of images that we invent. For example, the French Maid image is what has

caused the husband to disappear for 3 days - there is a clear logical connection created between them.

At the more advanced levels, we would like to see you chunk the markers together into compound markers of 4±2 images happening in the same

scene. For example, we could “chunk” the unique family, the French maid, and the 3 days by creating a compound image. There is a unique family, but

they’re unhappy, because there is a French maid in the background who has been with the father of the family, pulling him away from the dinner table

for the last 3 days. Everyone is acting awkward and uncomfortable in this situation, like people brought together by chance.

Another compound marker could be the children running wild, and that could be what wakes the prince up after a long sleep in the study on the red

leather sofa. Above his head is the image of a dream of an American dinner.

It should be noted that there are many ways to chunk these markers together in order to create a sort of “compound” marker. This may be animated or

static depending on your strengths and weaknesses. As long as you are preserving the logical intention and meaning of the author, while combining

the images together periodically (at the end of a page or section), how you actually chunk the markers is not important.

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