Did you learn anything in English?

When I was in high school all we did was read books and then answer the question “what happened in this book”. Doing that didn’t teach me anything about the English language. It’s important to be able to read, write and speak effectively, but there wasn’t anything in high school English that really built those skills at all. We did learn little tidbits about grammar now and then, but that’s it as far as anything kind of useful.