Collaborative Literature Circles

Why is it good to work with a partner on our literature circles? I have partnered up with Sunskruthi, we are reading "The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle" and we have to write literature circles to it. Here are a few reasons why I think it was good to work with a partner, challenges/obstacles that I overcame  and new understandings that I gained about the novel.


1. It is good to work with a partner on our literature circles because, lately I have been struggling on my literature circles and since I had Sunskruthi as a partner I could use her as a role model since she has not been struggling with her literature circles. I have now learnt a lot of new strategies and structures to layout my literature circle.  Working with Sunskruthi really improved my skill and my questions. When I did my first literature circle my questions and important passages did not have a lot of examples and evidence. Now having Sunskruthi as a partner she has taught me how to give evidence and that I should put, what page number the evidence was and which book it was. Overall it was a pleasure to work with Sunskruthi and I have learnt a lot from her.


2. I have overcome a lot challenges and obstacles. I usually had no idea what to write when it came up to the question and the answer, so I asked Sunskruthi if she could help me get a idea so we went on moodle and we found a sheet that was titled "Question Stems" , so we clicked on it and a bunch of ideas for questions came up and so we collaborated together and we each helped each other find a question. One of my obstacles that really stood out was that my important passages did not have enough information and they were just some information that was not organized. Also my content was  not strong enough. I have overcome a lot of obstacles and challenges from Sunskruthi and improving my habits.


3. I have new understandings that I gained from the novel. One of them is that I learnt how to find clues in simple text. Working with Sunskruthi really helped me focus on the true meaning and the hindsight of the book. On my other literature circles I would never really look at the true meaning of the book and the clues. This is really important because now I can have much more richer context and organized context. I truly believe that this is the key to a better literature circle. I have really improved on my literature circle because of this one skill. But trust me it was not easy to learn.


I think overall my literature circle has really improved and I could not have done it without Sunskruthi.