Thursday, November 18, 2010

Collaborating Constructively in Literature Circles


One of the benefits in working with a partner is that each one can help the other get along, explain, or make comments so that we do better on the Literature Circles. If one person comes up with a level two question, then their partner can comment and both of them can work on it and improve the question so it becomes a level three question. Another benefit is that we can get the assignment done in less time, or with the same amount of time, come up with a higher level quality of work.
However, on the other hand, working with a partner might cause some problem, or disagreement between each other. One of the problems that I had was that I didn't agree with everything that my partner thought, and also, we kept on coming up with the same ideas. For example, when we wrote our connections, we both came up with the idea that we didn't think Zachariah would die of just 50 whips. Another problem was that we had to wait for one another, so that we can go over the document and improve it. That means that we need to make an appointment so that both of us are online at the same time, and to do that, both of us have to be free at the same time. For this, we might have to spare some of our own time as well.One of the new understandings I learnt was exactly how cruel and unreasonable Captain Jaggery could be to such innocent people. I also learnt more about Charlotte's personality. I learnt that she was a very brave young lady who doesn't care about the bad things people would say when they knew she had joined the crew. As long as she is not doing any harm or wrong to anybody, and that what she is doing is right, she would go for it. And as soon as she had stepped forward, there was no turning back.

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