Literature Circles - Working Together

This week, we got to do our lit. circles with a partner. My partner was Raissa and I found that we worked quite well together. Working in pairs made it easier to get information because we can talk about it and help each other. When we help each other, we move through the lit. circle quicker. The chapters we did were chapters 10-14 and I found that it was harder to do these chapters because not much happened in them. Working with Raissa really helped me succeed in the lit. circles because she helped me find a good passage and a good question. My weakest point in all lit. circles are the question. I think Raissa really helped me achieve my goal of actually succeeding in making a question. Working with a partner also helped us understand the book more. As I said before, we can talk to each other about the book when working together. At some parts, I didn't understand what was going on. Raissa helped me understand and that probably will boost up our grade for the lit. circle. I look forward to doing other lit. circles with Raissa because it makes the experience fun too!

Lit Circle Reflection

In humanities, we are doing lit circles. Lit circles is where we read a book and then we have to write a mini report about the chapters that we are assigned. We must find 2 important passages, make two questions that can't easily answered, we have to make two connections or reactions about the book and we must find two vocabulary words that we either don't know the definition to or is and interesting word. Here is some more about

During our group's lit circle discussions, we tend to get very excited about the book, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Our discussions have much to do with figuring out what happens in the next chapter and we tend to predict a lot. Early in the book, we already knew who was the bad guy and who was good. We added up many tiny tiny clues and we figured out what the bad guy, Captain Jaggery is going to do to Charlotte and to the crew of the ship. Some of the important parts of the book we discussed about to get to the predictions we have were when the ship cook, Zachariah, gave Charlotte a dirk, when Charlotte is scared with a head in the top cargo and when Charlotte finds a pistol in one of the crew member's chest. These were important because the dirk is going to help Charlotte defend herself later in the book, the head was a mystery to Charlotte and the pistol is one of the most important parts of the story because now, Captain Jaggery is starting to show himself in front of Charlotte unlike before, when he was acting like he was a well mannered man. This pistol starts chaos. Captain Jaggery calls all the crew members and tortures them but only two of them. He punches one in the chest and he dies and then he whips the other until he dies. At least that's what we think. He might not be dead yet. Here are some of the connections and reactions we talked about.

As I said before, we talked about predictions and what's going to happen next. Those were what most of our reactions were about. Some of the connections we made were about how Charlotte related to other characters in other novels. We also had connections about life experiences like how we might have needed courage like Charlotte did when she found the head. One of my connections was about when Charlotte had to say good  bye to her chaperon in the very beginning of the book. I remember the time I said good bye to my best friend's mom and I felt the same type of pain.

One prediction we made was that Captain Jaggery is going to take Charlotte's knife that Zachariah give to her and then Captain Jaggery will kill someone. It will look like Charlotte did it because it was, after all, her knife. We also predicted that Cranick was the stowaway and that prediction was correct. We had another prediction that the crew will launch an attack to captain Jaggery. That one was also true. When we first started reading the book, we thought that Mr. Grummage, the person who lead her to the boat, was Captain Jaggery. This prediction wasn't true.

I enjoy this book very much and look forward to reading more.

Symmetry On My Street!

This is a photo of a pot that was on my street. There is one line of symmetry in this photo. The line of symmetry is right down the middle vertically through the small light.