At the start of the year, I wasn't great at the 3 goals. I couldn't totally understand why the author made the choices he did, nor did I know what element of literature I was using when I was writing, and usually I looked for what the author did rather than why he/she used it. As we went through the semester I slowly got a hang of these. By reading the novels in class, and discussing them as a group, it gave me practice to understand the why from the author. I started to understand the different elements to a written piece, and what each element adds to it. Now, after getting practice from many novels and poems, I feel that I have understood these written piece elements.
This semester I learned many different things including Diction, POV, Characterization, Inferences, Big Ideas, Author's Craft, Literary Devices, and much more. I learned all of these by doing group activites, and reading books and poems. It helped me understand how each of these literary elements are used, and what they add to a written piece. Mentally I started changing from looking at "what" to "why". Now, while preparing for the final, I know that I can pick out almost all of these elements in a poem by just taking a little bit of time to analyze it. By doing this, I can understand the full and deep meaning behind the poem.
