Shortened Literary Circles

Today, we had extremely shortened literary groups. And we discussed close to the ending of the book. I had a great strength because I thoroughly read the chapter and I had an extreme opinion on who Chris should live with. I think Chris should get over the fact that his Dad made a mistake and killed Wellington. But, come on, it's a dog. And his Dad was only trying to protect him by lying about the situation with his Mother. Mr. Boone was left alone with a child with special needs, he wasn't thinking right. Chris is the only thing Mr. Boone has left. It would be extremely unfair if Mrs. Boone kept him in her 5 foot by 5 foot apartment. Katie and Rebecca and Matt all agreed!

Literary Circles Meeting 3/30/10

Today we read pages 130-162. In this reading Chris Boone takes action based on what his Father admitted to killing Wellington and that he faked his Mrs. Boone's death. In this reading we really saw Chris mature. Well, to a certain extent. Chris is running away, trying to keep his cool. He is lying a lot. Everyone (even Siobhan and his Dad) is telling him it is okay to lie. So, he is in this situation in my opinion. Our group definitely agreed that this is the climax of the story.The plot is really building up and there are many ways it can go. I just have to keep reading and see.

Literary Circle Meeting 3/23/10

Today, in our literary circles Matt Barrack wasn't here. It was a huge blow to the group. But, then we just kept on living our lives. We all had similar questions. We had a very interesting conversation about my question which was; Were Mr. Boone and Mrs. Shears dating? Or did Mr.Boone just find it convenient? We came to the conclusion, based on the way Mr. Boone described it to Chris, that he just was lonely and wanted someone. I predict that in our next reading Chris is going to go to London to find his Mom but before he can get there Mrs. Alexander is going to warn Mr. Boone and he is going to meet him there. But, we shall see.

Scribe Time

Today, I was the scribe. We had an especially thrilling discussion today because it was a rather dramatic reading we had assigned. We read pages 66-98 in The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time. The main focus was about how Chris found letters in his Dad's room from his supposedly dead mother, 18 months from when she 'died' saying where she was and what she was doing and how much she missed him. Rebecca brought up a great point when she said "Chris is so curious, his Father should have known he would eventually end up finding them!". We all debated wether or not we thought Mr. Boone should have kept this from Chris. I think he shouldn't have and so did Rebecca and Katie. Matt disagreed and said he made a decision with the information at the time. The group did stall after that discussion ended. However, we fixed that by reading our questions from the reading. It was a very successful meeting!

Individual Expectations 3

On Friday, in our literary circle groups we discussed pages 33-64. It was an interesting conversation because our group was debating wether or not we believe Mrs. Boone is dead. At the beginning on class, I thought that she was dead because that's what the book said. However, Mathew brought up a valid point that maybe Mr. Boone just told Chris that so he won't hate his Mother for being a cheater. That is now what I believe. I brought up another question; why did Mrs. Alexander have to tell Chris that his Mom cheated on his Dad with Mr.Shears. What did she get out of it? This boy was obviously different, how could she tell him when his own Father didn't want him to know? I think this is fishy and I am going to watch out for Mrs.Alexander now when we read pages 65-98.

Individual Expectations 2

Today in our literary groups we went over the pages we read and basically summed up what happened. I found something weird in the book. The joke on page 13 did not make sense to me. I think I brought a lot to the group because I had some interesting questions. For instance, does Christopher Boone know about his disorder? That brought up an interesting conversation. A weakness of mine was that I got distracted easily. But, I will try harder next time when we read pages 33-64.

March 8th-- Scribe

Today, we went over what we handed in to turnitin.com yesterday. Some questions that we went over were "Who would kill a dog?" (Maggie and Matt asked this) and "What does the joke mean on page 8?"(Maggie and I asked this). Kaityln asked about what time period this book was in. And after looking through the book we found that on the bottom of page 5 it talked about going to the library in 1996. We came to the conclusion that it was somewhere around that time.

We also shared the passages that each of us chose to turn it the other day. Maggie chose a passage on page 28-29 that showed Chris's personality, and Kaitlyn chose a passage on page 7 that also showed his personality. I showed a passage on page 21 because I thought that it had a second meaning, and Matt chose a passage on page 13 that showed and example of Chris's OCD.

The main focus of the discussion was about why Chris was brought to jail, even though he had problems. Matt thought that he shouldn't have been and argued the point that you were guilty until proven innocent. In the end, since we couldn't reach an agreement, we asked Ms. Hart and she said that it was in fact the other way around, you were innocent until proven guilty.