My Lit. Circle 3 Feedback :D

Sup. 

For my third Literature circle, my humanities teacher Mrs Narsiman, assigned everyone in our class, to work on our next Lit. circle with a partner. During the past few days, me and my partner Gard have came across some obstacles, challenges, and much much more, though we have triumphed, and we have conquered. Though, without further ado, I am here to tell YOU about what I have discovered when I was working on my Lit. Circle. 

Obstacles.............

First of, let me start of with saying what obstacles that I have discovered and conquered during this assignment. One obstacle that I have discovered during this Literature circle, was when I had to talk to my partner, Gard and tell him what he should, or shouldn't do when we typing on our Literature circle sheet on google docs. This was especially hard because I kind of found it difficult to make him understand what I was trying to say to him. In other words, it was kind of hard to explain my tactic of a great, well structured paragraph. Another obstacle that I have found very irritating when I was typing up my Literature circle passage, was when I had to try to look for a very significant passage that I liked and try to look for reasons why I thought it was significant. To me, this was one of the most hardest parts of typing literature circles, Because if you can't find a very significant passage in the book, then you won't have much to write! 

Obstacles!!

Another Obstacle that I also found quite irritating when I was doing my assignment with Gard, was when I had to help him try to answer his questions. Not that I came up with the answer before Gard did, It was actually really hard to tell Gard what was wrong with his questions, and how he could improve upon it. This was especially hard considering the fact that I am also not so good at coming up with good questions. Plus, What I found really annoying was when I always had to tell Gard to provide examples and evidence. But I don't really blame Gard for not knowing how to provide examples and evidence, because when I did my first literature circle, I had NO idea of how to provide examples and evidence myself!

Challenges!!

Challenges....
Some challenges that I came across during this assignment was when I had to figure out how to put A LOT of text into my passage for the literature circles. I figured that, in order for me to be able to provide a lot of information into my passage, is to look for a really important part of the book that is very key to the entire book. This however, was a bit difficult because when I tried flipping through some of the pages inside the book, I couldn't find much to write about, this is because of the fact that not a lot of the scenes in this part of the book were that important. But with a bit of thinking I was able to provide a lot of information into my literature circle sheet, all from the help from page 150. 

Another challenge that I found very frustrating, was when I had to figure out some ways to help Gard improve upon his passages and Questions. This is because of the fact that Gard didn't put any examples nor evidence into his Literature circle sheet. I found this very frustrating because I had to try to explain to Gard what I actually mean by evidence and examples. Also, I had to constantly explain to Gard to add page numbers inside his passage, because he isn't really that specific whenever he types down into his literature circle sheet. Plus, I had to explain to Gard of how to make his questions more clear because they were a bit hard to understand.

New Understandings......

Some new understanding that I got from my Literature circle, was when I was able to learn more about Jacob's past life. For example: "Just a little rain can turn this hard grim land, into a soft green landscape...". When I read this statement in my book, it already tells me about how Jacob and his father usually bond together. Another new understanding that I have got just from typing up this literature circle, was how I realized why this book was called thunder cave, this was because of how Supeet explains to Jake of what exactly is the "thunder cave", thus giving me an understanding of why the book is called thunder cave. 

Some Benefits of working with someone....

One benefit that I came across when I was working with Gard was the fact that we were able to finish our Literature Circle much more faster then if we were working individually. Also, another benefit that would help me during this Literature circle, was the fact that we were able to provide feed back for each other, saying what are the do's and don'ts when we were typing this up. Also, just in case we didn't know how to do certain things in our Lit. circle sheets, we could always rely on each other for help. One last benefit that I would like to explain, was when me and Gard tried to "scan" each others work, and see how we could improve upon it. This especially was very useful, because if I never did this, then Gard would have not been able to think more upon his passage, because at first, it was a bit low quality, but now since we sort of, peer edited each others work, he was able to get a high quality passage!