This year in literary studies I would like to learn to better understand literature and be able to read something and write down my thoughts on the piece in such a way where it makes sense and is well delivered. I think this skill would allow me to better communicate with my peers and be able to share me ideas and feeling in an understandable way. Another goal is to get better at public speaking and hopefully I will learn tactics and technique to better that skill.

I also want to improve my reading. As of now I am a fairly slow reader and I tend to skim over words without full taking them in and understanding them. And finally I want to learn and make a habit of having beautiful cursive handwriting. But this is a smaller goal because I think if I focus to much in something as vain and small as nice handwriting it could take away from bigger and more important goals.

Overall I just want to be able to take a piece of writing and read and fully understand it. I want to be able to take this information and write a well formatted essay on it and be able to fully communicate all my thoughts on paper.