Ah, Lit Circles. This is a project where we read a book and then write, come up with questions about the book and so on and right now i'm doing one about the book Thunder Cave by Roland Smith. I thought doing the Lit Circles helped me understand the book more because of the fact that along with finding passages and questions we also have to find vocabulary. This helped a lot because usually when I read a book with new vocabulary, I would have been to lazy to find out what that meant and I wouldn't understand it much. For example, "I've never seen anyone scarper so fast." now you probably won't know what scarper is right? Now if that sentence was in a book then you probably won't understand the whole page or chapter if it isn't explained (scarper is a synonym for run) which is why I thought that doing the vocabulary was important, not only does it help us comprehend the book more, it also helps me learn more vocabulary that I can use in everyday life (in fact, the vocabulary is the easiest part of the project, hehe..) Some key ideas my group and I talked about usually involved the main character in pain or in trouble. Events in the story include the main character's mom dying and him getting beat up and he coming face to face with a lion. I thought these ideas were important because in shows us how the main character is always in a bad situation. This means that the plot of the book will have something to do with the main character having many conflicts in search for his dad.
I didn't really make any connections throughout the story but I did manage to make one or two reactions about what I thought about the book. My reactions are mostly on how the author writes the book. For example, 'I thought the author made the book interesting by leaving clues to the next chapter. One of them was on the way Roland made everything sound like it was going to be okay when all of a sudden making something bad happen. I chose to write and talk about this because when I was reading, I started to get bored and predicted 'oh everything is going to work out, how boring' but when I read the part when something bad happened, I then thought 'oh my gosh, I didn't expect that! I wonder how he'll get past this obstacle.' That part just gave me interest to read on like once in the book, the main character was about to book a plane ticket to Kenya. I thought, since he withdrew ALL the money from his bank account ($1,800), he could have afforded the ticket. But when his travel agent said it would cost $1,964 I had interest to read on and see how he could have afforded the ticket. He also needed extra money to buy food (because they didn't allow food in Kenya) and rent a hotel room.
My predictions for rest of the book, like I stated above, is the man character facing page after page of conflicts to find his dad. I thought that this would have been an appropriate prediction because from the previous chapters, I noticed that most of the time the main character faces many problems. One example is a problem where he has to get away from thugs at a bazaar in the maze of people, and another one is where he meets a hungry lion. But in any situation, the main character, Jake (yes, I know I should have used the name sooner) always manages to win. When he was chased, Jake managed to loose the thugs and when the lion met him, he threw a bicycle wheel at it and the lion ran away. So that's what I predict for the rest of the book, Jake encounters a problem, Jake finds a way to win, Jake encounters a problem, Jake finds a way to win and so on.
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