My skills deepen this semester, with the lit circle book, Hole in my Life. In Of Mice and Men I didn’t apply much thought. When something stood out I would usually underline it or write, “why? How?”, but with the lit circle books I chose a thought provoking page (since we only got one), and I pulled it apart with analytical thinking. I made connections with previous pages and wrote what they meant. I realized that annotations should be something meaningful that later you can re-read and know what the book/text is about. I also realized how to write more profound and meaningful things (by comparing, contrasting finding and literary devices). For the future I would like to start annotating more, sometimes when I read I forget to annotate, so
