Short Story
Brennan Rattenni
10/8/13
English 10
Ms. Nardi Reflective Essay During the past five weeks me and my group, David, Brandon, and Ethan, have learned many things from our book and our group discussions. The book are group decided to do was Runner, by Carl Deuker, a fiction novel based on a child who must make his own money to pay for his fathers bills. All together my group had four meetings and all of them helped us to learn more about the book, ourselves as a group participant, and as peers. From our group discussions had a greater grasp of the book we were reading. For me I was able to fully understand the underlining conflict throughout the whole book. Without the help of my group I would not been able to figure out the plot or the whole point of the story. Also throughout the story the main character change his view on the world around him, I however did not pick this up and when we went to go and discuss the section they helped my out. Without them I would have never been able to figure out the point in the story. During these few weeks I learned what my abilities where as a group participant. I found out that I was a good sharer of the activity that got assigned to us. I always had the group discussion director, which had the task of finding questions in the book and writing them down and repeating them to your group and having them answer then question as best they could. As with the other activities we all put in good thought to them and gave us good insight on what they thought of the certain section of the book. My peers also had a good lesson in the group discussions. Their contribution to the group was good. They helped each other out in their problems and also the questions. Without all of their help our whole group would not have been able to complete any of the activities, group discussions, and the final presentation.
10/8/13
English 10
Ms. Nardi Reflective Essay During the past five weeks me and my group, David, Brandon, and Ethan, have learned many things from our book and our group discussions. The book are group decided to do was Runner, by Carl Deuker, a fiction novel based on a child who must make his own money to pay for his fathers bills. All together my group had four meetings and all of them helped us to learn more about the book, ourselves as a group participant, and as peers. From our group discussions had a greater grasp of the book we were reading. For me I was able to fully understand the underlining conflict throughout the whole book. Without the help of my group I would not been able to figure out the plot or the whole point of the story. Also throughout the story the main character change his view on the world around him, I however did not pick this up and when we went to go and discuss the section they helped my out. Without them I would have never been able to figure out the point in the story. During these few weeks I learned what my abilities where as a group participant. I found out that I was a good sharer of the activity that got assigned to us. I always had the group discussion director, which had the task of finding questions in the book and writing them down and repeating them to your group and having them answer then question as best they could. As with the other activities we all put in good thought to them and gave us good insight on what they thought of the certain section of the book. My peers also had a good lesson in the group discussions. Their contribution to the group was good. They helped each other out in their problems and also the questions. Without all of their help our whole group would not have been able to complete any of the activities, group discussions, and the final presentation.