During this project we did many things. One thing that we did were Literature Circles and blog post. We had to read a book and write a blog post saying some things. My book was kind of boring because it wasn’t something I would read. My book was Brother, I’m Dying which was a really sad book. I think that the book thought me a lot about family and love. But really I was not happy with my choice to read this book. This is because the book was too emotional for me which made it seem like the book was just a book of emotions. I didn’t like it because it was more of it developing sadness through the book more than developing the storyline. Although the book was interesting, it would have been better to decrease the emotion in the book because it was killing me inside. Something I learned from the book was family love. I learned that family is the one that will always be there for you, so you should love them as much as you can because you can lose them at any point of your life. I also learned many things about some people in this world. I learned about people that like to help a lot. I learned that they are people that try to help everybody, even if they are hurting him. This is because some of these people think that they can help everyone when they should really be helping themselves. Well there is really nothing that I can think of the really needs to be added or improve to improve the activity besides just making the blog post something easier and more for learning because the way that the blog post were made it more like just doing another assignment. I think that it was harder because you had to find a quote that relates to a question when really some of the books can only use one or two questions to use. So pretty much change the whole question quote thing and make it more easier. I felt that the blogging was really easier than the group meetings because it can be done outside of class, which makes it easier to respond because you have time to read the part of the book that they are talking about with limited time. I also think that it should have been more of different kind of response because it seems like we were following a outline of what to do instead of saying what we really want to say. There were pretty much no problems in the blogs besides it was hard because the questions were really hard to relate to in the book. I also think that it was hard to do different questions each time because some books don’t have all of the questions in it. But I learned that my peers and I think very differently with a lot of things, but we all have the same related thought. I also think that we all had some of the same thoughts, but thought about it in a different way, which was really interesting to look at.
It was different than having to have something assigned to you because you had the choice of what to do and how you are going to do it. But it was very hard to choose because it most of it were hard to do. So something I did was find out what would be the easiest to hardest for me to do and decided through that. So then I found out that the 2nd easiest was book cover, and I went for it so it would kind of challenge me, but not too much or too less. It felt really weird how you picked your own art piece to create because it was not normal for me, but it was fun because I had to pick something I could do. I felt that the art piece made a connection to the book in an average way, which means that it didn’t easily connect to it, but it also didn’t have much difficulty connecting to it. I also feel that the connection it makes is easy to understand through the picture and the book. I feel that the final product for my painting turned out bad. I think that I did a poor job on the looks of the painting because it really doesn’t look well painted. It shows a lot of the canvas through the paint and also shows a lot of paint blobs on small places. I think that its meaning turned out to be the only good part about it because its meaning relates to the general idea of the book. Some things that would have enhanced the quality of the painting was painting it better, because the way it was painted was really not good and doesn’t look very professional or look like a painting. I also think having the sketch of it on the canvas drawn better because it was really poorly sketched. I learned a lot because it was a lot different than an actual reflection because it made you think of it deeply instead of using some sort of outline or any sort of writing strategy. Also I learned that it was better to do it this way because I learned more from the book and putting it into a more interactive way of learning than just writing about it. I think that writing about it really doesn’t teach you anything because when you write about it, you don’t really think deeply about it and just put random things that you know and that is easy for you.
The interview process didn’t go as smooth as I hoped, but it wasn’t really difficult because it the last interview was kind of hard to schedule. It was hard to schedule because things happened right before we made a complete plan on it. But it went pretty good for the first two interviews because it was really easy and it went by fast. So pretty much the only problem was scheduling the third interview. I felt weird about being required to do three interviews because most times you need to do one or two interviews to get this much info, but we did three to get more info. I think that it was weird to do three of them because it was uncomfortable to meet someone you don’t know only like three times because it makes it seem like you’re doing a job when you are a kid. Also that it makes you seem like you’re just meeting a total stranger. It was weird using different methods because it made it seem like the ways you communicate with other people totally different. In the first interview, I learned a lot about things you should do in an interview that isn’t in person. Like you should get right to the question and be clear on it. I also learned in the 2nd interview a lot about the different things that can happen in an interview. Like the answers can relate to each other even if they are totally different questions. In the third interview I learned a lot about how people feel in interviews with strangers because I was doing one like it. Like they would feel uncomfortable and not want to talk a lot. It was weird. It helped a lot with learning about immigration and immigrants because it makes you have the opportunity to meet one in person like meeting an actor in person. So pretty much it makes it easier to learn about immigration because it makes you able to see it in person in a different way.
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