The book Maus taught not only how to take notes based on the information read, but to also learn how present it in front of a group. Throughout the years, I’ve always felt uncomfortable speaking in front of small groups; and the many protocols that were included in the book club unit helped me increase my confidence in public speaking. One thing I always have to have when discussing with a group and in this case, my Maus groupmates, are decent notes in order to be able to speak for the given length in the protocol. If I do not have a certain amount of notes I tend to get sidetracked, and use time by incorporating filler in my text. Once during the second protocol I started to repeat the same word, ‘very’, to pass the required time. There are …show more content…
The process of transposing my thoughts and ideas was a normal experience, reading comprehension in a way. The reading was also quite normal; judged by the fact that I had to read it with a deeper understanding than just any regular book bingo book. Although those two moments I constantly had to go through were quite easy, it was contributing to the conversation that was quite difficult. Since everyone in the group had a different understanding of passages the each of us chose, incorporating our own ideas that were different was quite challenging. During one of the discussions, particularly the third one, I decided to contribute to the discussion with my own notes and realized that it was not easy from my different ideas to be heard through the ideas of someone …show more content…
This particular protocol not only allowed the first presenter/speaker to get his idea on the table first and let everyone else comment on it; it also gave the presenter a chance to speak at the end, summarizing the people’s thoughts and giving a new opening for what he originally assumed the passage was. During this protocol, it was only Reece and I speaking to one another and he is one person in my group that gave me a deeper of the text. Reece gave me a better understanding of the book because he knows the situation that happened much more than I do, and what had happened. He was the most effective when it came to commenting on others passages and his thought always made me think