Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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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