Blog Post #9

Good, Bad or Ugly-Working with Others

Working with a partner in my opinion can be a good experience and can be a bad experience. In this blog I will talk about the benefits of working with a classmate, Challenges or obstacles my partner and I overcame or tried to overcome and new understandings my partner and I gained about the novel. 

While working with a partners you get lots of benefits for your self and your partner. One benefit is that you don't have to do as much work, which saves lots of time and you don't stress out as much. Another is that you get practice on your editing part of your writing skills, because you should be editing each others work. You also learn to see in other perspectives. When working with a partner you will write about other passages, connections and questions. While you are editing each others work you will read about different parts of the book in different perspectives you will probably not recognize. You will learn to see those parts of the book in the way your partner has seen them.

You will realize when you are working with a partner you will come across some challenges or obstacles that you will have to face some point or another. In my case it was starting our lit circle on time and turning it in on time. Unfortunately that was one skill both of us were not the best on. We both needed some improvement on that skill. Both my partner and I started reading our book a little to late and then the planed schedule didn't go as the both of us hoped.

Like I mentioned before, seeing the same passage in a different perspective is one fantastic way to understand the novel even better than you did the first time you read it. My partner helped me see the important side of a passage when I strongly thought it was worthless to the chapter in the book Thunder Cave. I'm sure we both helped each other in some ways, but this way my partner really helped me and I hope that I helped him in some way identical to this way.  

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Blog Post #8

1. How you discussion helped your understanding of the novel.

 In my discussion with my group I discovered that it helps to hear perspectives from other people instead of just my own perspective. When you hear the same story in a different way it helps you think about the story you are reading. In this case hearing my peers perspectives opened a new portal for me to think through. Another thing that helped me understand the novel better was when they each gave evidence and their own opinions on passages I hadn't paid attention to. My peers made those passages stand out in a unfamiliar way to me. While reading those passages they gave examples and evidence from our book, Thunder Cave, to prove themselves right. This discussion helped me understand the novel we are reading much better than reading this individually.

2. Connections that you made during your discussion

I made connections to other people's discussion's and to the book. We connected with each others writing and sometimes disagreed on these types of things. Disagreeing and agreeing also helped us expand our writing. We all thought we learnt something about each others passages and connections and questions. We all tried to connect on each others passages they wrote to share with our groups.

3. Predictions

In our group we made predictions before we found out the answered. For example when we read our questions we always predicted all that we thought about that question before finding out our answers. Sometimes we would predict what the other was about to say on the passages or what each others questions are. I also predicted on my own while reading, I would read one chapter and then predict what would happen in the next one. I think me and my group predicted what would happen very well.