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.