Curricular Response

The book I read for my “Book Club Presentation” Was the Round House written by Louise Erdrich. One of my least favorite parts of this book is the writing style the author decided on. Whilst the choice of words garnered positive feedback, the quotations, or lack of quotations made the plot hard to follow while in theory it shouldn’t be. It was nearly impossible to distinguish at point whether a character was talking, thinking, or narration was occurring by the main character.

Core Competency Self Assessment

When we worked in groups, I found I was able to listen very well to others ideas, although I did disagree with some, I always found ways to build off of others ideas to create a well thought out plan. As an example, when coming up with an activity for our group presentation, I took into account what one of my group members thought of, the idea of justice for an activity, and another members idea to show how harsh this books plot is. I offered a suggestion of having an activity where we put the listeners into a variety of situations to see how they would behave. My other group member input the idea of seeing how far someone will go for family to connect it to the book even more.

For a skill that I could improve, it would be to focus on what we needed to do throughout the project, and to keep work even when group work became challenging. I found myself getting easily frustrated when working in a group setting, as I felt some ideas I had were shut down or not appreciated, causing me to lose focus on the actual assignment. To improve this, I will explain my frustration to group members, rather than keeping silent and pushing forward.