My Hatchet Group Collabotration

In humanities we are doing a collaborative activity called lit circle. Normally we would have to do this activity individually but in this lesson we had a partner. My partner was Olivia. The book we are doing is called "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. Both of us had challenges that would help us in our next lit circle.

The benefit of working with my classmate is the feedback we give to our partner and to read what they have to say such as how well they understand the chapters we read.  The reason why I chose this is because when I read my partners work I find mistakes or sometimes she could more details and improve the paragraph. This will make the work more descriptive and better, because we can't always see mistakes on our own. It's best to send it to someone to check your work and the feedback is to make you fix your mistakes for example: spelling error, the wrong page number, or maybe you could add more details and evidents. That is what I did with my partner and we improved it a bit more and a little help from our parents too.

There can be challenges when you have partners because your not sure if they would do there work and if it would be just a copy of your own. My partner is Olivia and we both had to write one of each passage, question, response, connection, and vocabulary. I shared the work sheet with Olivia and I got started with my work before her. after two days I got a little worried and send Olivia an e-mail. I didn't get an answer from her but at school she told me she did all yesterday so I was relief and happy. I checked it on the computer and spotted that she had chosen the same vocabulary, I asked her if she can find another word and she did. It was a little bit of a challenge because if one of our work isn't good enough our grade wouldn't be good. We also had another challenge but was solved quickly.

My new understanding from the novel Hatchet was when Brian gets more used to being in the woods and starts to slowly forget about the people who are suppose to come and find him. He also starts to change and become more of a wild boy instead of a city boy like he use to be. This is new to me because the author mentions Brian's change in the book and I thought it was interesting because Brian noticed himself change in two different ways: I changed from the outside by have a tan and more mosquito bites, while the other change is from the inside, he was more into the wild wood than the city since he was stuck there and his attitude changed almost every time. Once was when he heard a engine of a plane, he tried to run to make a smoke signal but didn't make it time,which made him really mad and he wanted to kill himself. The other was when he was hungry and couldn't find anything, but finally found turtle eggs which made him delighted.This is why I thought that this is my new understanding of the book so far. 

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The discussion group helps me understand the novel because I sometimes have trouble understanding the parts in the chapters. When I ask my group they help me by explaining them.  In case I have difficulty in understanding some words, I would ask my group for the meaning or we would look them up in a dictionary and write them down in a note book or type them in our computer to help us remember the new words. Sometimes in lit circles I ask myself and my group discussion questions such as "what we think would happen next in the book" or "how does this part make you feel when the character did something heroic"for example.  My group and I come up a lot of different of answers.

Some of us had connections with the novel, but sometimes we don't. Sometimes we have similar connections. Also, some people have an interesting connection which makes the group want to know more about what happens. I sometimes enjoy finding connections because I know exactly which one would fit the event in the story. Sometimes I have trouble finding a event that I can connect to. Connections can sometimes be difficult to find if our group doesn't quite understand an event, but if we do it is a lot easier to connect because we can compare it with something that happened in our life.

There are many things my group can predict that might happen in the next chapters. For example in "Hatchet", the book I'm reading this trimester, Brian was steering the plane, but he ran out of fuel. We predict that he might find a clearing or maybe he might land in a lake. Predicting is fun to do, because there are no wrong or right answers. Some predictions have many possibilities, but some have only a few. Such as in the book "Call It Courage". Mafatu was sailing through big storms and there could have been several predictions: maybe he will survive the storm or he will die or he will end up on an island somewhere else. Predicting can be quite tricky to do, but really there are no wrong or right answers.