____
(
Reread the summary you wrote of the conversation)
Now that your Book Chat is over, and now that you’ve written
your
summary of it, think on-paper about your
on-second-thought
reaction to the ideas your group talked about.
What are you thinking about and wondering about
now,
a few hours later, that you weren’t noticing before, or perhaps even during, your discussion? What real-world
human
things is that writer addressing, examining, questioning? What, in your
own
world, does s/he seem to be trying to bring to your attention? What aspects of your
own
experience do you find yourself becoming more
curious
about, starting to
question
? How would that writer respond to some of what
you’ve
written this year? To what dome of your
classmates
have said and done? What’s starting to make a bit more sense? What’s getting more real?
(Try to give us a sense of what’s playing around in your mind at
this
point-
this is the most important section)