My favorite part about being in a book club partnership was sharing ideas because I really got to express how I felt about the book and sometimes if I was just writing in a notebook it didn’t feel the same as talking to a real person face to face.
The most challenging part was staying focussed because we could be talking about Matilda one minute and then the next we could be talking about Harry Potter, or if we were saying our jots after we are done we could just trail off of our book and start talking about something else.
My favorite book that we read was Matilda because it kept us interested with lots of surprises and was really funny and I thought it was really cute. My least favorite book was Penguin Days because it was really boring (it was one of those books that went like: Sally hurt her leg but the next day it was better, the end) and there were no exciting plot twists like there were in Matilda.
For my jots I think I can work on writing more and to explain and elaborate like if I was trying to prove that Sally is mean I would have to give more evidence than just say: Sally called Sara mean names. I think I could also work on trying new jots instead of just doing character traits, character traits, character traits, and character traits over and over again.
I think the most important part of working with a partner is not to get distracted because you will never really understand the book unless you talk about it and if you don’t you won’t understand it as well as if you did talk about it, like if I was just staring off into the distance I wouldn’t be thinking deeply about my book and would never really deeply understand why she did this or why he did that.
I learned during working with a partner that I like the author Roald Dahl and that I like how creative he is with the stories and how he really makes it feel like the characters are coming alive, or like I really know Matilda Wormwood. I really liked working with a reading partner and I hope I do it again.