Collaborate Constructively

The last time I did lit. circles, I had to do them with a partner, otherwise known as Pasha. I thought that the benefits of working with a partner is that you can see what their thinking for lit. circles before they actually present. It's like a sneak preview of what they are writing down. Plus, with partners you only have to do half of all the work so it's less stressing to me and my partner. The downside of this all is that sometimes your partner doesn't do anything at all! By the time it's time to present, you only turn in half of the work. I almost thought that Pasha was slacking off and not doing his job because his half of the lit circle was empty. The next day I found out that he was using Microsoft word (because our lit circles were done on Google docs) to type it up and then copying and pasting it onto our document. I was relieved, but the next time we do this, I just hope that we have a better connection. I thought that understood the novel better when we did partner lit circles because I could listen to my partners opinion of the question or passage and compare with my own. If the my partner's questions was different to mine, it would make me re think my entire answer. One question was ' Would Jacob find his dad in the end?' A first I thought no because things like that happen in story's like this, and then Jake would have to live with Supeet. But other people said yes which made me actually compare my answer to theirs.