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You have discovered the benefits of working in a group when working through novels. I agree and warned you that your novel is challenging. Especially in the beginning. Yet having the group will help you work through it to see where they are coming from and wher you are at. Now as you respond and you mention your understanding of relationships and characters, try and bring in specific evidence to help support and back up what you are saying. How did you discover the flashback piece, how did you see the who was who etc. Give me details- what shed the light for you as you read- what line was it, what scent or moment clued you in, and how did you figure it out. Your meta cognition piece brings in the details nicely by the way. I think you have a good group.

Wuthering Heights - Formative Journal #1

This was my group's very first week of lit circles so we were just getting the feel for it. Wuthering Heights is a relatively difficult bok to read with a rather confusing beginning. Figuring out the characters and their relations took up a good deal of our discussions this week. The book also has flashbacks to a time many years earlier involving the same characters, so hammering out who was who and what they had done was pretty tough at the start.I think my group made great progress from our puzzled beginning to really starting to figure out the story.

I believe I did well in my lit circle this week. I, along with my entire group, was asking questions and trying to figure out the story at the beginning: something that has proven essential to enjoying this novel. Although my group members were a little confused at the start too, we each knew little things. Collectively, we managed a whole lot! I managed to understand the connection between Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw, as well as I am coming to understand the family tree.I have not had the need to pull anyone in my group in because they have all also been actively participating. My group has begun to discuss the issues arising, but since it is the beginning not many of these have come up yet. I sense, and know from my reading, that there will be much more to discuss in the following group discussions.