reflecion

Immigration project reflection
John Rozar
Literature circle books/blogs
During this project we had three main things we needed to do get the project completed. We had to read a book about immigration and post what we think on our blogs. Second we needed to comment we also last had to interview an immigrant that we found on our own or was assigned one bye Mrs. G.
In this book I was confessed a lot when re4ading it because it would be hard I think to tell when it was the past or present he would be talking about because one of the characters name vaelentino would always reflect or describe on some of the stories he had when he was still back in Africa. I was bored at times when reading it and it was really long. I wouldn’t say I was happy about it but it wasn’t totally bad. I was not happy also because my book was the biggest maybe 2 times the size of some groups and some peoples were really small and I read slowly so I had to read almost every night to keep up with my post. I don’t think my group fully understood the book in the way it was mint to be read like I think we all thought of it in our own way and took it in differently.
I liked the first lit circle way better because you could have more of a discussion about the book and on blogs sometimes you would have some computer problems and if they were done in class there would be no excuse for not doing it. I felt the blogging was good but I would have liked to maybe met with my group like once halfway though the book so I could talk to them more about things because on the comments you just read there quotes and then never reviewed on it but in the first litture circles group it seemed like we could talk about stuff better. I noticed we interpreted the book in many different ways as I could tell from reading there blog post. I learned that every one looks at something in totally different ways and it might not always be exactly how it was mint to be impetrated but it interesting to see and compare or discuss your options. Also add predictions so we could comment on the predation our group member had made.

Art and literature
Well my decision presses started out really ruff I couldn’t decide to do a new book cover or a scene that stood out to me in the book. After I thought about it fro a while I looked at the cover and thought it really needed to be re done so I did that. I new I needed to include some parts of the original cover so I took the main focus point from it and put it on mine. I think there was a connection but a small one between my painting and the book I read. For example I tried to show his journey from Africa to the United States by having a world with an arrow and line showing wear at he came from and were he went to. I think my final product came out worse then I thought but way better then I thought at the same time. Worse because painting something and drawing are totally different when painting letters it’s really hard and to paint detail or a straight line is hard. It was also hard to make a certain color I wanted that I had in my sketches. But better because I took time on painting detail and with some help from my teachers I changed the way some things came out on my painting then my final sketch like my guy I took of the original book . The changes that were made I think came out for the better of the painting. What would have really made my painting really good would be to the background colors to all be solid colors so not like you could see thought them to the canvas but like if I were to lay the paint on really thick. I learned that you shouldn't make your art piece about whets in the book because most of the people going to look at it and will know what will happen even though they didn't read the book yet. You should have made an image about what the whole book was about and not what is in it. And not have a super amount of detail because when its time to paint it, it will come out totally different then what you had imagined.
Interview process with participant
My interviewing process went really smooth I thought. I just email her my questions she answered them pretty thorough with detail so I had plenty of information. But on some my question were yes and no answers which I think was hard to avoid for certain questions but some I think should have been open ended. I felt interviewing them 3 different times was good because it gave you more of a chance to get to know and understand the full journey your participant did and took. I learned from my first and again reputed in my last interview that she came all the way from Germany alone. After her husband who came because he was in the army. From interview 2 I learned that well this is what she said “I think you build your opinion out of images you seen, on TV shows and newspapers, and the most you see is extremes, so I must say I expected more extremes, I was pleasantly surprised how normal everything was. Children going to school, parents going to work, coming home in the evening and eating dinner, but there is one thing that is different everybody had more money and were able to spend it, people eat out a lot more and going on little shopping trips just for fun” and it was interesting to me because I know they see it on TV but I never really thought of it being super great till I heard it come from some one else’s mouth that from another country. I also learned from that interview we aren’t much different from other countries but at the same time we are so different. And from the 3 interview I learned that we have a lot of food and sports in common. Like soccer is there main sport and we have soccer and some food we have alike is Hamburger = Fleischkuechle Hot dog= Seidenwuerstchen Sauerkraut = Sauerkraut Pickles=saure Gurken Potatoes= Kartoffeln. I think that actually meeting with and talking with a real immigrant to the us made it only just a little more easily to understand how immigrants are and feel. It didn’t really help me understand much a difference from what already know. But it was cool to ask them questions on what they think of immigration and what they fell on how immigration has changed. It also I guess help me appreciate the differences between America and some other countries.