The benefits of working with a classmate.


The benefits of working with a class mate is that you don't have to do everything by yourself. When you have done your part of the work then you can ask you partner to check it and see if you can make it better in any kind of way. Even before you start working on your lit circle the two of you can talk about the book and you can help each other with ideas to write about. It is more fun to work with a partner than work alone.





Challenges / obstacles which you overcame (tried to overcome).


Things that I have tried to overcome is that  I don't need to be stressed. I was stressed last time because my partner hadn't done his work that he was supposed to do and it was only two days left. I realized that I need to trust my partner and he needs to be able to do it in his own way. If you don't think your partner is doing his work than you should tell them that in a nice way. This can make you stressful.





 New understandings that you gained about the novel.


When your partner and you are discussing about the book then you get to know how they think about the novel. Than when you know how they think about the novel then you might change your understanding about the novel of your book. I think that me and my partner discussed too little about how we thought this time. I didn't gain so many new understandings about the novel.

1. How you discussion helped your understanding of the novel. 2. Connections that you made during your discussion 3. Predictions

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

The discussion helps me understand the novel a lot. When we discuss what we think is important in the book I get to know what the other people think about it. I got to know that Brian was not a person that gave up that easily. If Brian was not a person that gave up easily then he must be a fighter which he was. For example he was brave enough to try to land the airplane even though he was thinking that he would die. This information I could add to my own thoughts. It helps me to understand Brian.


2. Connections that you made during your discussion

I have made many different connections when we have discussed what have happened in the book. Some connections were sad, some happy, and some were good and bad. For example when we talked about the divorce I remembered a friend in Sweden and his parents were divorced and he was really sad for months.  Another connection that I didn't think of before the discussion was when one person in our group said that the pilot died right away I thought of my grandfather. Just like the pilot died instantly so did my grandfather. My grandfather did not die of a heart attack but a embolism in his brain.



3. Predictions

Our group prediction was that we thought that Brian was going to be attacked by some animal. We had many different thoughts about what was going to happen to Brian. One of our groupmembers said that Brian wouldn't find enough food to survive. When the person said that I made a prediction. The prediction was Brian would survive but he would also be attacked by a snake or another animal. What I learned about this is together you make a different prediction than each person makes by them self. When one person males a predictions the other people can build on it or question it.