Project Reflection

Lit circles

Overall I really did enjoy the book I chose to read and getting to choose important quotes and commenting on them. I also enjoyed getting to know the people in my lit circles group perspective on how they feel towards the novel. It was interesting to get to know about what they think.
Something I learned from my L.C group was about their perspective towards the book and some connections they had to the quotes they chose. Something I learned from the novel was about why people immigrated to the U.S and what they had to go through. Like in my book the family had to cross the border illegally just to live better and to try to get out of the poverty they lived in. They came to the U.S illegally and they were still too poor because they were illegal and they couldn't get a decent job because they didn't go to school and they were illegal.



Art & Literature
For my art piece I decided to make a metaphor for the story and create an art piece out of the metaphor. Since the story I read was depressive and happy at times I decide to create the ocean, the sun, mountains, and the border. I used bright colors which represented happiness and hope in the story and the dark colors represented depression. The family also faced a lot of obstacles so the mountains and the border represented obstacles. I decide to make that a new cover page so people could see how the story is by looking at the picture.
I think there was a connection made between the book I read and the art piece I created. Like I said I created a metaphor by creating what I created and it represented how the story was.
I think I could have done way better on my art piece. I think I should have added more detail to it so when people look at the image they capture the message I'm trying to send. If I would have added more detail my final product would have been more successful. Something I learned about creating an art piece of the novel I read was how to express what I felt towards something by creating an image out of it.

Interview
I think the interview process was difficult at times especially the in person interview because my person coudn't do the interview the time i needed to.
That affected me because I had to turn in that assignment late and that affects my grade. It was also difficult because the person I got was young and he migrated to the united states at a really young age so he didn't really remember some thing that were important.
I thought interviewing a person three times was a little hard because we had to ask different questions each time we interviewed them and it would be hard to come up with good questions. It was also hard because sometimes my person would not reply on time so that was a problem.
How interviewing someone helped me understand what we were learning in class was that it helped me understand why people were immigrating to the U.S. Mostly because of poverty or because of school. My person migrated here because his daddy was in the army or something like that and he had to go to the U.S so they migrated here.