Lit.Circle 4@!~

This discussion was our second last discussion we would have in triemester 2. I hoped that it would be really fun and exciting just like other discussions we discussed. So, we started as usual, with our passages. I had a really long passage that was almost one page. I said that it was very and super brave of Charlotte to help out the crews when there was a hurricane coming. I also said that it was very brave not to even faint when she founds out that the hurricane was attacking them. My group members which are TJ and Chloe said some wonderful passages about who killed Mr. Hollybrass and what they think killed him. However, it was unfortunate that Catherine wasn't able to make her passsages, but TJ and Chloe had some good ones. TJ explained about how Zachariah was alive and hearing it was fascinating. Next we discussed our quiestions. My question was that would you want to believe that Zachariah is alive if you were Charlotte, why? and my answer was yes because Charlotte was Zacharia h's best friend and Zachariah helped Charlotte with a lot of other things so Charlotte misses him. TJ's questions were good but one of them was a yes or no question. Still others (Catherine and Chloe)'s questions and the response was good enough to cover the mistake TJ made. Finally, we discussed our vocabularies. One of my vocabulary was notion and I had no idea what it meant first. Others had superb vocabularies and I never knew any of them. So after that, our discussion ended. It was really good discussion and I hope that on the last discussion, we would have the best discussion ever!

Lit.Circle 3 !~

Just as before, I knew that this discussion would be fun and exciting. As usual, TJ, Chloy and Catherine and I sat around the table getting ready to start the discussion. Mr. Thomas told us to share what we like about the book and what we are looking forward to. I was looking forward to Captain drowning and what I liked was that there was a lot of exciting parts happening in the story. TJ was looking forward to the hurricane hitting the ship and he liked that there was a fun parts similar to mine. Catherine and Chloy's sharing were really similar to mine and TJ. You get the idea... Next, we shared our passages as usual. One of my passage was when Charlotte was climbing up to free the sail and she got dropped into the sea, I thought that it was very kind of the crew to change the course to find easier water for Charlotte to climb up. One of Catherine's passage was when Charlotte begged Captain to forgive her after she whipped him on the face, Catherine thought that if Charlotte hit Captain Jaggery, why did she come to get forgiveness? That is what Catherine disagreed with Charlotte. One of Chloy's passage was when the captain was beating Zachariah so hard, she said that captain is really cruel and shouldn't do it. TJ's passage was when Charlotte begged to the crew AND the captain for forgiveness. He thought that Charlotte is kind of unfair to ask all of them. Next was our questions. One of my question was what evidences do the story give that proves Zachariah is dead. I answered that when Charlotte realized that the hammock was wrapping Zachariah's body. Next and our final was our vocabularies. One of my vocabulary word was incredulous. Just like before, I think that I had fun by having this discussion and I hope I get to do this discussion more later.

LIt.Circle Discussion 2!

Since we have done our first group discussion, we had to do our second group discussion. In my group are TJ, Catherine, Choly and me. We sat on our seats then began our discussionl. We all started with each other's passages. Most of their passage was really interesting and understandable except some passages where I couldn't tell what was going on. TJ had a fantastic passage where he told what he thought and the fact from the story. I hoped I could make my passage like that! After sharing our passages, we started with our questions. This time, I thought I had a good question by asking why did Zachariah want revenge on captain Jaggery, but as I thought back, I found out that the question wasn't really good and learned maybe the story would tell the answer. I remember that Mr. Thomas told us not to ask questions when the story would later tell the answer. I regretted that I wrote that question. Next we shared our vocabularies. This time everybody had really good vocabularies. I wrote down sheath and scampering. I hope I can type what other groups wrote but I forgot what they asked. Again, I think this discussion went really well and I had fun.

Literature Circles Discussion!

Today in humanities class, we were to have a discussion with our book group. Our book was 'The true confession of Charlotte Doyle'. In my group were TJ, Catherine, Cloy and me. However some of us couldn't bring their questions, signaficant passages and vocabularies paper done. So they couldn't participate in this discussion. The only people left in our group was TJ and me. So we two started discussing about the book. TJ made a really good question. He asked, what was the reason captain Jaggery named the ship 'Seahawk'. I was kind of sure that it was a discussion question, because there were more answers than one. I answered maybe captain's first pet was seahawk when the seahawk died and the captain wanted the ship to be the reminder of the seahawk. My question was that why was the people keep telling Charlotte Doyle that she shouldn't be here in this ship. TJ said that it was because there was some bad and horrible plan going on to kill or hurt Charlotte Doyle. I wasn't so sure about the exact answer. I would have to keep reading to find out. One of my vocabulary word was distorted and complexion. It was pretty hard vocabulary words. I couldn't really remember TJ's vocabularies but I remember saying 'WHOA! THAT IS HARD!' The discussion was really fluent and we were reading the next chapters when the two left out people joined us and told us to listen to their questions. It was really noisy then. However we manged to finish the discussion and it was really fun!!!