The two students couldn't be further apart in terms of approach to work, but both images illustrate the ways that annotation could be used as a reading comprehension strategy.
The first was concerned with her ability to read the text at all, despite the fact that the vocabulary wasn't terribly beyond her. After conferencing, we nailed down the nonstandard syntax as the main source of her problems. This image was the result of a period's work.
The second is from the same day, done by another of my target students. I especially like the second note from the top on the left, where you can see him parsing out a little bit of the meaning so that he has enough to read on with. Further down on the same side, you can see him still doing a bit of copying of the wording from the text itself - I can't be sure of his level of comprehension here - and near the bottom, he summarizes with the brief "The cyclops ate Zeus people." This character misreading is potentially disastrous, even though he's able to get the general events out of the story.
What about this passage suggested that the sailors belonged to Zeus? Just a misreading, based on speed or carelessness? The mention of praying to Zeus?
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