Reflection Of English Literature My Experience Of...

â€Å"Why should someone study British literature in their senior year of high school? Why would anyone need another history course in their schedule?† These are the thoughts that had gone through my head as I entered into English IV in September 2016. English, in the past, hadn’t been my favorite course. Analyzing poems, reading Shakespeare, and interpreting an author’s style in a novel are not activities I partake in during my free time, so doing them in class for grades was quite the chore. That is until I traveled to London in November of 2016. On that trip, everything I had learned about British literature, as well as England as a country, was placed into my life, outside of the classroom. I saw the Sutton Hoo Treasures in the British†¦show more content†¦Ms. Doo 3 Schofield, when finished with Beowulf, showed the class the Sutton Hoo treasures. The Sutton Hoo treasures are actual treasures that came from the Anglo-Saxon period. They include a helmet, chalice, and silverware used during the era. I saw the Sutton Hoo treasures in the British Museum on my trip to London. What I saw on my computer in class was sitting in a climate controlled, glass case in front of me, the ship burial helmet. The people, places, and events I was learning about in class were real; not just some stuff that was thrown into a textbook, but real people Anglo-Saxons wore this helmet. The knowledge I had of the history behind the treasures enhanced my experience viewing them in the museum, and inversely, viewing the treasures enhanced my appreciation for the material learned in class because they proved to me that it was real. English scholars consider the English Triumvirate to be William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Geoffrey Chaucer. I had studied Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales before my trip in great depth and was excited to see his burial place at Westminster Abbey. 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