Critical Thinking - We did many things in this class to really hone critical thinking. Key examples are the rhetorical precis and the annotated bibliography. These two assignments forced us to really look at a text and draw the main ideas from it. I have prior experience writing precis's from AP Literature, so it was more or less re-iteration, but it was valuable nonetheless. Annotated bibliographies was a new one for me though. It really forced me into deeper thought, having to summarize the main idea of the text with a single sentence as well as how the author provides support for their points.
Writing - Prior to this class I have certainly had my share of experience writing, but nothing near as long or scholarly as the essays that we had to write. With AP Literature I began to break out of the mold of the five paragraph structure but I feel that I made much larger strides in this class. The environment and expectations are different, and that really encouraged a change. I also had prior experience in utilizing quotations in my essays, but I never learned how to truly frame them and fit them into the text. I usually had the trouble of the quote simply being tacked on, and getting the experience and learning how to properly integrate quotes and sources through working on it in class as well as reading about it in "They Say, I Say" really helped in changing that.
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