Lit Circle Meeting #5

• My strengths today were that I had read the chapter accidently before, and again this week. This gave me a greater knowledge of detail from the book. It was a significant strength. I don't think I had any weaknesses.
• I contributed to the group with having the usual set of questions, and a very interesting passage. It was of a dream Jim was having again and again of Lena kissing him in a field. I thought this was interesting because a few paragraphs above, Jim is fancying Antonia and admits he likes her more than anyone else.
• My group members (as usual) corrected me about one of my points. I didn't understand why people thought Jim was a bad person just because he went to the dances. My group members corrected me by saying it was a very different time period and things were viewed very, very differently.
• Another question that puzzled me which I had asked was when starting to read the book, the author for some reason gave me an idea that Black Hawk was a very rural town with hardly anything in it. When starting to make some headway in this chapter I realized that Black Hawk wasn't so small anymore.
• I suggested taking a look at the passage where Jim has a dream about Lena kissing him in an empty field. I suggested this passage because Jim also has romantic feelings for Antonia, and this verifies the conflict that is about to happen.
• I did not offer to much interpretations of my own. My group had some pretty solid points and I agreed with them.
• I did not take any risks as an individual today.
• We used sufficient class time, stalled once discussing budget cuts, but used time pretty well over the 35 minute mark