Frederick Douglass Reflection

In the beginning of the Fall quarter I was unprepared for the class, and I was unsure what to expect from the class. Having no prior experience in college. I was very nervous about how I would fair in a real college class. Although I may have started the quarter with fear in my heart and a nervous mind that my skills that I have were not on par with that of a college level student, over time as the quarter progressed, I began to develop and improve upon my writing skills such as my the development and organization through my body paragraphs and the content that I include throughout the essay, but there are still aspects that I struggle and need to improve upon which are grammar and my reading skills. Throughout the quarter I have progressed

What stood out the most was how much Douglass valued his education, “This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins,who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge” (Paragraph 4), to me the bread that white boys were hungry for, I considered it metaphorically as the need for people to conform to the social norms and they values society embodies while Douglass goes against these grains to gain something more

After I realized how the textual evidence should be presented in an essay, I made sure to fix this mistake in my other essays. Another improvement that I made since the beginning of the quarter is my annotation skills. At first I did not annotate at all because I thought it was useless. As the quarter went by I found myself annotating the readings. I started to annotate because I began to value it. Annotation lets me go back to the reading and allows me to continue a thought because of the note on the side, and when I annotate I write down my thoughts at the moment of my opinion. If I did not annotate I would forget what I wanted to say about a certain part of the