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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Lit circle reflection

One of the benefits for working with a partner is that you are able to discuss and compare your responses to the questions and responses. You may even find mistakes in your answer and you can tell each other about and what will improve your grade. You can also learn a different way of looking passages in the book which will help you expand your knowledge for the book.  You could learn about collaborating with each other which help get along with others later on another projects. I would also say that people have less to explain and the partner will explain it in a different way which might the part you missed. They will be able to remind each other to stay on task and remember certain talking about the book. You can also problem solve with each other about problems that occurs in the book.


Some of the obstacles that we overcame are that we had to agree on who was going to create the page and who was going to share it. We also had to agree on what day that we were going to check what our group members have written. I have to also read over my group member writing and make sure there are no mistakes. I also need to make sure that the comments that I give will make sure that it will help my partner so that there writing will improve. I also have to make sure and see that she has done her work so that I can tell her how she can improve.  I also have to make sure that we don't have any disagreements in our own perspectives and discuss the problem. We had a problem she had given me feedback and told me what to post but I had not done my work and so she did not look at it until Monday. I had finished the lit circle Sunday but we came on at different times we didn't have enough time to look at each other’s writing.


We all must have gained a different understanding of the novel because the other person has a different type of view of the book. You also learn how the person can understand the book which will give you a different way of the lit circles. You also may want to mix your way of writing with another person's own and that may help you improve by a lot. That person may have a better understanding of the book and that will be shown in there writing. My partner helped me because she showed a lot of personal connection that would help you shows more detail and evidence that it connects to your real world. If you give more personal connection you show that you know what you are connecting to and helps prove your understanding of this group. Another thing that could help you show your understanding of the book is word choice that shows you know the certain description's in the book that the writer is trying to tell you. 


Overall working with a partner is better even thought you have to do your share of the work and give the same amount also the same amount of thought into it. You get to learn another way that someone writes his or her lit circle's which could help you improve your writing skills. I don't mean go copy them I mean mix it up your writing and their writing that way you can find a mix your writing if there method is better. You also look at how they still get more than require but still keep their writing entertaining.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Literature Circle Reflection

The discussion of this book helped me understand the book because people have different minds and different ways of thinking. Some people were able to see things that are important that other people would have missed and that thing that they missed could be import to know about in a book. You could also miss the conflict's ad and the building up action and you would get confused with the book. The discussion really helped by giving me more ways to look at the book. Discussing helps me confirms my I dear and thought's because others would have found some of the same things in the book. Discussions with other people helps me to understand the book better by giving your opinion and others agreeing or disagreeing and soon down with a answer to agree on. You get a better I dear of the book by a group of people discussing on the book in all different ways.

I reflected on how he had a collection of pictures that his dad has sent him and how he collect's them and it reminds him of his dad. I connected that I had a great uncle that died and one thing that reminded me of him is that he had a collection of cars. I connected well with Jacob because he hasn't seen his dad in a long time and I have not seen my great uncle in a long time. I also think that I connected with where his dad is right now my great uncle lived away and hardly ever got to see him. My other connection is about how you invite a friend over and you have it all planned out but then he is sick and he can't come. Jacob had that connection by the way his mom died she had plans and a lot of things to do but then she died. The day seemed like it was the same but all of a sudden things change in a big way. I think that the way Jacob reacted is much more seriously than a person would react over a friend coming over for the day and he has a lot more to react over.

I predict that he is going to need to get some more money and find a person that knows how to get to where his dad's camp is. He also needs to get out of the town he is in right now or some of the people will recognize him and will come after him and steal his bike back. He will also need to go and find some way to get money to pay for the hotel because they stole his money when they beat him up. He will face a lot of challenges when making his journey to his dad's camp. He may be too late to go and find his dad's camp because he mentioned that they move around a lot in Kenya. He will have to use some of those survival techniques if he wants to survive in Kenya because it is harsh environments. He is probably going to make it to his dad safe and safe a lot of animals.

I have told you my opinion of why discussions help people understand the novel that they read. I have included that my thought's and fact's about the discussions and how they help you in the future and right now. I have given evidence that I have connected with Jacob in the book and it is well connected with the book.
I have connected where Jacob took a big turn when his mom died it changed his whole life in a big way. I predicted that he will have some big challenges when he goes and tries to go and meet his dad even he does not even know where he is.