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.