thought all I would be doing was writing essays, indeed there was allot of essay writing,

but there were many other key skills that I learned. Which included critical reading,

collaboration with my peers to achieve a common goal, and understanding the

connection between British history and literature.

One very important skill that I learned during the class was critical reading,

thinking, and writing. Before I started British literature and composition I had limited

critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. It was very hard for me to read a piece of

literature and then write a critical essay on it. For example, when I wrote the essay on

"Dulce et Decorum est", I had an extremely hard time relating every thing to my thesis

and making comments to support the relationship of the evidence to the thesis. After

reading and analyzing more poems my critical reading and writing skills improved and I

decided to rewrite "Dulce et Decorum est". All of

as leader so I just put my ideas on the table and went with the flow. The group activities

collaborating with a group of peers to achieve a common goal. I considered myself an

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and Sir Walter Raleigh's, "The Nymph's Reply

anything done, so I kind of became the leader, divided up the research, thought of a song

plan on going to college the critical reading, thinking, and writing skills will be of much

to The Shepherd" were the first really good essay's that I wrote, I was able to critically

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