The benefit of a LIT. CIRCLE!!!! :P

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A partner was given to everyone in class to help us with our Lit. Circle. My partner was Khairi and together, we are reading ' True Confession Of Charlotte Doyle' and we've been through difficulties that helped us to complete the Lit Circle. There are still times when we go through troubles too.

"Lit Circle with a twist"... What's the benefits of working with a partner you say? Well, the benefits... there are tons of benefits! The first benefit is that you can less do work! No... just kidding... it's the help that you can get from your friend / partner. The help that you get can help you to learn what are the mistakes that you've made. Not just vocabulary but also how you write the sentence in a proper way. The second benefit is that you get to use one of the SLR to finish this Lit Circle (with a twist). Which is Collaborate Constructively. Just by collaborating constructively, you can work with your partner and make the Lit circle a successful Lit Circle.But of course, we have conflicts that we would have to overcome.

Maybe some other groups doesn't have any problems but you can't be sure about that. But from what I know, is that we had a few problems. First, we didn't know what partners we've gotten within me and Khairi because Kamilla and Sol didn't tell us. That is one problem. But after a few discussions, we've got set with Kamilla with Sol and me with Khairi but here is another problem. We have only the afternoon and night time to finish this Lit Circle when there are tons to do. So we started solving it by pushing all the tuition homework and the other homework aside first and start to work on the Lit Circle until late at night. :( But it's all in the past now! It's all gone! Now, we just have to think of the future. :P

By working with your partners, you gained new understandings about the novel like example, the partner that you work with see something that you don't actually see. They see the event as a useful way instead of a useless way that you see. Because you worked with a partner, you can widen your knowledge of the book that you are reading and you can also understand the book better.

So, I think you get a rough idea of what  is the benefit of working with a partner right? Well, hope you did. See you in the next blogpost! :P

True Confession Of Charlotte Doyle

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'True Confession of Charlotte Doyle'

Some of you out there might know or had read 'True Confession Of Charlotte Doyle'. But some of you don't. So to let the people, who doesn't know the book, know what I am going to talk about in the next few paragraph. I shall give yo a short summary about this interesting mystery book written by Avi. "Not every thirteen-year-old  girl is accused of murder, brought to trial and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however: If strong ideas action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share you idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it."

Today is the day when every group, every group member, has to share their literature circle to the other group members. So I came prepared to humanities class ready for the 'test'. I brought all my supplies to humanities and not to forget my hard literature book, "True confession of Charlotte Doyle".  After some boring introduction to what we are going to do in humanities that day, we are finally set free to go to our group. When listening to Sol's homework read by her wonderful voice, I realized that actually the discussion is helping me understand the novel better because the other group members see what I don't see. Like for example, one of my close friend is also reading the same book and she thinks that the passage about one of the ship crew advising Charlotte to leave the ship is important which I think it's just a sign of something bad. The idea of us having discussions are actually helping us to understand the novel well than just reading it by yourself and understand it yourself. Sharing your ideas with the other group members helps the other group members to widen their understanding of the book.

If some of you out there don't know what a connection is, here is a short summary of what a connection is.  You make a connection by choosing part of the story scene and make a connection to your real life. For example, you choose the part when Mary is writing a story and maybe the connection that you will make is that you've written thousands of excellent essay that you think that you can publish. That is a connection.

Maybe sometimes, we didn't make detailed connections with the real world, but we make good connections in real life. Connections are made as that we can understand people's life even more. Connections are used so that it can help you remember events that you have forgotten a long time ago. But today in class, we did something different. Instead of just reading the connections that you've written, Kamilla made a connection to a passage that Sol thinks that is important. For me, I've make connections along the way in my mind because I didn't think that it will fit into the discussion because I was thinking about wild ideas but not the idea that will fit into the discussion. I don't think that it is good to not say it after I remember because maybe it's the idea that will widen our understanding to the book.

The time has gone pass quickly and humanity class has ended. Although we didn't really understand the book that well with the other group members, but it has been a great literature discussion. And we did understand the book better. 'True Confession of Charlotte Doyle' is a great book. Don't forget to read it!

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