Last project

In my expert opinion literature is any piece of written work.  Even music, plays, and movies all count because they were written at one point.  So yes, even this blog post is a piece of literature because it is being written.  This obviously isn't good or important literature, but it is definitely considered a piece of literature.  Literature is very valuable to the study of society.  By studying all the different works of literature, we can learn about society at the time and how they used language.  We can not only learn about their language but also their culture.  We learn about the author's tone towards different subjects and we learn how society viewed different things.  You can also study the language of the society and see how it has evolved to where we are now.  All the different things you can study about literature help us to understand society back when the piece was written.

The most meaningful literature to me is music.  It is the most meaningful because that is what I enjoy the most.  I can gain the most from listening and learning about the lyrics and meaning because I enjoy it.  Although you can usually get a lot more information from reading a book or encyclopedia, I get more out of music because I can't actually stay focused on a book filled with thick information.  I am also far more interested in pop culture so music fits my interests more than books.  This is literature because it was written before it was put into sung words.

I learned mostly about rhetoric. We focused most of the year on it and I think I gained a fond understanding of it.  I will hopefully take with me the skills of writing that I bettered this year.  I did struggle with organization in my writing this year, but it is something I will keep working at.  There isn't really anything that I wish we would have done more of this year.