Collaborative Literature Circle

What are The Benefit of Working with a Partner?

One benefit to working with a partner is that if you are doing something wrong, like when you are working on something, you might not see that it is wrong but your partner, who is not working on it can see what you are doing that isn't right. Like for example, your passage might not be the most important thing, infact it might be the least important thing in the whole book and there is a way more important passage right infront of your eyes that you couldn't see but they could. Another reason - a partner is a good thing to have when working on literature circles. Your partner can give you feedback on things that might effect your grade like,your partner may have written a very large response to the question and you might have written a tiny response, so your partner can help you undestand how you can improve but not only the response but how you interpret the actual question. Your partner could help you to make your question more interesting like for example "Why did the snow stop Milly getting food" you could change it to say "What effect does the snow have on Milly and how she is living?" This will make the reader more interested in what you have to say. Last but not least, you can BRAINSTORM with your partner and get more ideas than you could get on your own and then you will have a wider range of ideas that you can choose and put in the literature circle to make your literature circle the BEST in the whole world or just in your class and you will get full marks!

What Are Some of The Challeges with Working with a Partner?

One challenge with working with a partner is letting them down, because say you were to leave the assignment until the night before it was due, your partner may feel realy bad like you haven't done enough work and they might feel you let them down and worry that it is going to get them a bad grade. Also if you did leave it to the last night something might happen like there is a huge thunder storm and your house got hit by lightning or maybe the power goes off and you cant use the computer, If any of these things were to happen, you will get a bad grade for sure because you wouldn't even have your work for a start and your teacher might feel you don't work well with a partner. Another challenge is if you are working with someone you don't get along with you might have a hard time communicating with each other.

New understanding about the Novel

I have learnt that working as a team is much better than working alone, even when you are being rejected by others you have to keep trying to be accepted. It is better to collaborate with others than try to go solo. In the novel Julie (Miyax) realises that sometime things happen and you have to let others help you like when Jelo stolle her pack and she was hungry, Kapu brought her a leg of caribou to eat and she repaid him by cooking it and giving him a little, this shows that sometimes you have to let others help you and not just think you can do it on your own.