“Round 3, what will we see? What will it be?” Pan said at the end of round 2, excited to finally uncover what round 3 has for all the junior students. “New round, new theme. And that theme is…” said Hannah, the Junior Literacy Facilitator. Pan sat quietly as he waited for the sentence to finish. “The theme for round 3 is The Search for Identity!”.
The Search for Identity talked mainly, considering it’s the theme, about what defines a person’s identity or something along the path of that. Throughout our journey of literacy, we read, we wrote, we listened, we spoke, and we worked as a class. The main things we did, to me, were novel studies and where-I’m-from poems.
The poems came first. A where-I’m-from poem is a type of poem that tells the reader a little bit about the author and where they’re from. In a where-I’m-from poem, there are childhood memories of the author, good and bad, people they miss, details about their past, and feelings of what it’s like to be home. I like to think of them as artistic and ambiguous poems that make you feel farm and cosy as if you’re at home. Everyone in class had to write one and so we did. Click on the link at the end of this post to access my poem in picture form! I really enjoyed looking back at some of my oldest memories while writing the poem and I realized that a lot have changed since when I was younger. Note: I made a mistake saying that the date was 2018. It’s supposed to be 2019.
Halfway through the round, we split into groups and each group was assigned a novel to read about and discuss. There were four possible novels that could be assigned to a group which were The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Looking for Alaska by John Green, Wonder by R. J. Palacio and Monster by Walter Dean Myers. My group’s novel was Looking for Alaska, a story about teenage life, love, heartbreak, and friends. One day every week for the rest of the round, we met in groups and discussed while also taking the time outside of class to read the required number of pages in the book. At the end of the round, each team had to put up a presentation for the whole class about the book they read. Looking for Alaska was a book that I will never forget. Ever. I love everything about the book. The plot, the characters, just the entire story. It’s really sad. I didn’t expect the ending at all. That’s all I can give you about the book because I don’t want to spoil anything for those who want to read it
Summing up, this round was another unique and wonderful round. I shall wait for the next round to come and see what secrets it’ll unfold in front of my very eyes. In other words, I look forward to the following rounds and hope that they’ll be as great as, or even greater than, this round. Thank you for reading!
Link for my where-I’m-from poem: http://bit.ly/2JzXj8C
P.S. I made a mistake writing the date at the end. It is supposed to be 16 Jan. 2019, but instead, it says 2018.