As you read your group member’s paper, add 2 places where they could reflect (show insight, emotion, realizations) more

Use one of the following comments to help them add specific reflection

Add what you liked about a line, or description that they should keep doing

Reflection

Reflection reveals:

• emotions and thoughts going on in your head during the experience
• Lessons learned from the event
• How you have grown by Comparing yourself now to yourself then
• Social commentary on society (i.e. conclusions about why people are how they are or why you are what you are? )
• Explanations of how you have grown as shown through your actions

Reflection

Us and Them

Wondering about the Tomkey family had made me feel generous, but now I would have to shift gears and find pleasure in hating them. The only alternative was to do as my mother had instructed and take a good look at myself.

• Revealing emotions and hidden emotions that you did not know at the time
• Hinting what people should do by doing or not doing it yourself

My father told me I was fat

As years went by I was amazed at how prolific a writer I really was. I decided that I would publish my poetry just for the sake of showing myself that I was over my father’s words, so much so that I was willing to put my most private emotions on paper for anyone that cared to read them. I knew then it didn’t matter if people didn’t like what I wrote. I’d still just keep writing.

• Using time shift to reflect on growth
• Explaining why you acted in a certain way, what you got out of it
• Stating your realization

Excerpt from Black Boy by Richard Wright

Perhaps everybody in the house would burn!  Why had I not thought of those things before I fired the curtains?  I yearned to become invisible, to stop living.  The commotion above me increased and I began to cry.  It seemed that I had been hiding for ages, and when the stomping and screaming died down I felt lonely, cast forever out of life.

• Showing the struggle or questioning going on in your mind
• Stating what you wanted and what was not happening
• Stating emotions and how long you have felt this way

Amy Tan

• Since that day I’ve wondered if my mother really meant to kill me. I needed to know, yet I couldn’t ask. Not until now. Now she remembers me differently. Now she recalls that I was a good girl, so good she never had to spank me, not once that she can recall.
• Explain questions you still have about the event
• What did you need but did not get

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly  By JEAN-DOMINIQUE BAUBY

Up until then I had never even heard of the brain stem. I've since learned that it is an essential component of our internal computer, the inseparable link between the brain and the spinal cord. That day I was brutally introduced to this vital piece of anatomy when a cerebrovascular accident took my brain stem out of action.

• Identifying the moment when life changed
• Explaining what was learned and how it was learned

Excerpt from Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros

I’m eleven today. I’m eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was one hundred and two. I wish I was anything but eleven, because I want today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so tiny-tiny you have to close your eyes to see it.

• Sharing secret needs, desires, hopes

Chapter 1 Aria Excerpt from Hunger Of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

Like others who know the pain of public alienation, we transformed the knowledge of our public separateness and made it consoling — the reminder of intimacy. Excited, we joined our voices in a celebration of sounds. We are speaking now the way we never speak out in public.

• Explaining what you did with this event
• Explaining how your actions changed as a result of the event