-The Task ~ Post Literature Circle - Blog Post - The aim of Literature circles is to provide a way for students to take part in discussions, collaborate constructively and reason critically. We are sure during your groups discussion that your have added to your understanding of the characters, the setting and the plot of your chosen novel.
In a well structured blog post, reflect and write about the following;
1. How you discussion helped your understanding of the novel.
2. Connections that you made during your discussion
3. Predictions
A quality response does not retell your discussion. Minimum requirements - 3 paragraphs.
-This first literature circle discussion has definitely given me an impact on my opinion and ideas of my book. As a matter of fact I actually felt stupid after our group's discussion because Peggy and Juanita had ideas I hadn't even thought about. After reading the first two chapters of the book my understanding was pretty simple. Charlotte Doyle is being taken to her ship by a man who calls himself Mr. Grummage. The reason the two porters ran away is because the Seahawk and Captain Jaggery is infamous for something and Mr. Grummage knows about it too. I thought that according to the end of chapter two that Mr. Keetch was lying about Captain Jaggery being absent, and that the captain is planning something, Mr. Grummage is in it too, and that not every single one of the crew's in it. But after talking to Juanita and Peggy, I found that their ideas were also highly possible and I started to understand the book way better than before.
- During the discussion, we all agreed that it must have been Captain Jaggery Mr. Keetch was talking too. Also according to the descriptions of the ship we thought that the Seahawk might actually be a pirate ship. Another thing was that we figured the other two families must be held hostage on the ship. This was different from my previous idea because at first I thought the two families had refused to come because they knew something about the ship too. Some other connections we made were that Zachariah and the rest of the crew is evil since they are acting all grumpy like, and that also Zachariah wants to harm Charlotte.
- Some predictions our group and myself made were pretty wild. First of all our group thought that Captain Jaggery might be actually on the ship, and that he and the crew is planning something evil. Some predictions I made myself was that the Captain is planning something and that most but not all of the crew's working for it.
- This literature circle discussion was very exciting for me because well first of all our group has a very interesting book, and we came up with tons of ideas, some stupid and some very thoughtful. In my opinion it is very different from Elementary school where we just sat down, read, talked a little and got distracted by other topics like 'Which one first- chicken or egg?'. Also this book makes me and without doubt the rest of my group think a lot, so it can be confusing but still fun at the same time.
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ReplyDeleteDear Hyo Jin,
ReplyDeleteyour blog post is really good! Its pretty good because you had said a lot of detail, that was nice because it gave me a clear image of what had happened a couple weeks back. I don't think you should be so hard on yourself and say you felt stupid! We all did after we heard the other possibilities. Your blog post has added to my understanding of the novel because it brought back what we talked about at the very first discussion, so when Charlotte recalls something that happened back in the early chapters of the book, now I remember what she is talking about. I like the bit when you say Mr. Grummage CALLS himself that (that being Mr. Grummage). I remember when we were discussing our discussion, we talked about if Mr. Grummage was a member of the crew or not. I like how your blog post is so easy to read because every different part is a different paragraph.
-Peggy. K-