The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle- Blogpost #1

On November 2nd, 2010, we shared our first Lit. Circles with different books. The book I chose was "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", by the legendary Avi. Since we have finished sharing the first few chapters, we were assigned a blogpost to do on what we understood about the book, connections we had with our group members and the book characters, and predictions we have. So now, hopefully you won't get bored, you will read my blogpost on the progress of our first Lit. Circle.



To start off, I want to talk about what my group members and I further understood about the book. One of my group members and I thought that a character in the book, Zachariah, talked in third person. Talking in third person means to talk to a person, but saying their name instead of you. An example is from the book, "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle". " 'Miss. Doyle doesn't know what will happen,' " That was the part where Zachariah gave the main character, Charlotte,  a knife to protect herself for reasons, which I will soon find out.


Sometimes in my group, we have connections. Usually when someone makes a comment other people agree to it, and if they don't, they might get agreed with in their opinion. Since there is a lot of vocabulary in our book, there may not be any connections towards it, as there was in "Call it Courage". In the first Lit. Circle, we only had to read chapter 1 and 2, so mainly we had the same ideas for the passages, like when Zachariah gave Charlotte the knife. When we had our first Lit. Circle, we had questions, some same, some different, but mostly the same.


For this book, "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", there are alot of predictions I have, compared to "Call it Courage". One of my predictions I have is that Mr. Grummage and Captain Jaggery are bad (or evil) people. Another one is that some of the men on The Seahawk are not very, how do you put it? Nice, let's go with that. They may seem to be nice, but I have a feeling they aren't pleasant to be around.

Sources:
http://www.sunprairiepubliclibrary.org/SunPrairiePublicLibrary-HistoricalSurvivalStories.html
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle- By Avi