Andrew M's CyberEnglish blog

1. All of our books dealt with the main character that the setting effected the character to do certain things he normally wouldn’t do.
2. They differed because each book began in a different time period and had very different conflicts
3. Haley’s book was very interesting because it’s a very different book that tells the life of two little boys who live in the ghetto of Chicago
4. Haley’s book was very different and interest me to read it because of how different it is a the person’s perspective on where he live and what he lives with in his life
5. I learned a lot about different types of books and how interesting they can be. I am different and similar to my peers because I like reading historical fiction while almost all of my peers liked fictional books but we were all similar because we love books that have a good conflict and resolution
6. One goal that I have for my reading circle is to learn more about what books my peers are reading because if  I ever want to read an interesting book I could always think about what books my peers read. I hope to learn how to improve my group sharing and reading books that they recommend. I hope to learn what books that I would like better than the books I’m already reading.

1. It help create a visual in my head on what the characters look like.
2. They are now very similar because my story deals with a European spy who spies on the Nazis, while the other people in our stories that are African American and live in the ghetto of Chicago, and they both have different conflicts.
3. All characters are suffering in a great time of hardship whether it’s a war or poverty and both are not very rich which makes them different in the story and makes them more selfish an naïve, I think they act this way because of the hardship they have to live every day.
4. I found links to our society like the CIA and FBI because of how secretive the characters are.
5. We have explained a lot more in detail in our stories to interest each other into reading them.

1. On Friday we discussed our settings and how they affect the story. My group memebers are reading nonfiction books that deal with poverty and im reading a spy book that originates during world war 2
2. The character has a bad relationship with the setting because of how dark and evil the setting is at the time which just happens to be Nazi Germany. When the character is in London he feels safe but when he is in Nazi occupied Europe it scares him
3. All of settings are all in bad shape whether its war or poverty. Because the people who live in this setting are suffering or dying
4. The ghetto of Chicago, she told me about the environment like gangs and bad people who live that area which really made think of places that have gangs and it really helped me imagine it
5. Culture was the hardest because all of our stories are modern and don’t realy express culture of the characters
6. We went around in a circle reading off our questions and then we commented on what we liked about the story and what they should work on and it was very helpful, I think everyone participated equally do too the fact that we all shared
7. I am the leader of our group because I try to keep people on track and help them as much as I can. To make things better in our group we could all share other books we read to understand what kind of genre we like to read
8. In the beginning of the book the main character is being tortured by a German officer in a random location and after that it talks about him in England watching plains without explaining anything else.
9. These settings are meant to explain the different places the main character has to go to solve to overcome the conflict of the story and helps a lot to keep the story interesting and it explains more. The role they play is to lead up to the conflict and to go into the main setting of the novel

During are last reading circle we discussed dialogue and descriptive language in our groups. In all, most of are dialogue was used to express someone speaking to someone, expressing what they think, or how they feel.

I liked the reading circles a lot because you can express the way you feel about your book to your group without anyone judging you or putting you down. But I didn’t like the way some people didn’t do what they were suppose to do. During the reading circles I learned a lot about myself but mostly I learned I can share the way I feel about a book with my peers. Next quarter I am going to be a lot more organized with my work and try to improve my writing. I completed my goal because I did learn a lot of new books that are interesting to me from what my peers shared with me in my reading circle. I thought the reading circle was very productive and we should continue it next quarter.