1) distinguishing between a passage’s literal/factual content and its figurative, symbolic, and/or interpretive content

The first learning outcome within the English major that I mentioned above was my ability to distinguish between a passage’s literal/factual content and its figurative, symbolic, and/or interpretive content. When I came in as a freshman I didn’t know how to do __, __, and __. Now as a senior, I’m able to do __, and __. The turning point for this was __. I feel that this learning outcome was met when I made my Little Dipper analysis in my free time for my SubStack. This piece was about __, in which I __. I also feel this meets this learning outcome through __. I made this analysis because __. This work was about __. My Little Dipper analysis translated the emotions I felt when __, and facilitated me in a further analysis and close reading of the text by __. (Insert close reading of the text) Doing this side project helped me __. This project also helped me distinguish between a passage’s literal and factual content by __. Overall, I was able to better understand symbolic content like __. And doing such a homework aligned creative project helped me further meet this learning outcome by __.