When we read Beowulf this first semester, we had a couple of things that we had to do and one of them was annotation.  When we did annotation we had to underline important parts, symbolism and similes and metaphors.  We had to circle vocab and define it and at the end of a chapter we had to make a summary as short as possible while explaining the whole chapter though.  I think that annotation is important because it allows you to look back and focus more on the book.  I am proud of the well I underlined important parts.  I really want to improve on not reading ahead.