Hathcet By:Gary Paulsen, Collaborative Lit Circles! :)

What does the word Collaborative mean? To me Collaborative means working together and talking together about what you are going to do for the next Lit Circles which is about what we do. I am going to talk about how me and my partner worked Collaboratively as partners. It is about the book "Hathcet By: Gary Paulsen" I am going to answer these 3 questions which are: 1.The benefits of working with a classmate, 2.Challenges/ obstacles which you overcome (tried to overcome) and 3.New understandings that you gained about the novel. Those are all the questions that I will answer in the next 3 paragraphs and I will give some information.

For the 1st answer to the question, I think that collaborating with a partner when I am doing my lit circle is way better then working alone on your lit circle. I think that because when I work alone on it, its hard for me to think about 2 passages 2 questions especially but 2 connections and 2 vocabulary is easy for me. Now to the real point about the benefits, is that when I work with a partner what I predict is that I will get better grades because when I finish the part I have to do, then my partner comments on it then I edit it then it is better then maybe I can get better grades then the previous ones that I worked alone on.

Now the 2nd answer to the question, about my challenges and everything was that when it is my turn to say my talk about my lit circle then I get really scared because I don't think what I wrote about my lit circle was that good because I am not really good at thinking about 2 things at a time for my passage I have to find a certain page to write about I can't just pick a random page and write about it. Sometimes it is easy for me to think about 2 of the passages at the same time because I pick an easy page so it is easier for me to understand and I can do it a bit quicker.

Then my 3rd answer to the question, things that I understand about the novel is that how Brian made the fire and learned from the 2 dreams that he had about his father and his friend how they were trying to explain about the fire. He finally understand what his 2nd dream was about when he had the dream about his friend cooking something and he was trying to explain and he understand that Brian had to use his Hathcet to make the fire. I also learned how Brian survived after the plane crash that he had food to eat, water to drink and also fire that he treated like his friend. That is all I have learned so far.

I like reading this book Hathchet I think that it is really interesting and it is a great book but I think that there were repeating words, but after all I think it is a awesome book.:)