IMMIGRATION PROJECT REFLECTION

Immigration Project Reflection
The experience that I had with my book was that I got to learn more about immigration and what people had to go through so they could come to the United States. Also how they were treated in their country and the reason why did a lot of people wanted to come to the United States. Well I didn’t had the chance to choice my book because I didn’t had a lot of time. The book that I got was because Ms. Abbassi choice it for me because I ask her if she could of choice it for me and she did. I was happy with the book that I read because I learn a lot of different stuff about immigration. For example why did they all came here and when. The reason that they all came to the United States was because they all thought that they would have a better life and a better future for the children’s. Also there were many other reasons why they all came to the United States. Some came because of a better life, others because of the Gold Rush, and a lot of them because they were getting kill in their country. Something significance that I learn from my group was that they responded really well at my posting. Something that I would of done with my group would of being that we could of meet one day before every post that we had to do because then it would be easily talking to each other first and then posting than just posting in our blogs. I felt really good by reading others and commenting in theirs. Also getting feedback from by group members really help me a lot on the next one that I was going to do. I really like the way that we all read the same book and we were all commenting about the book. I think this was really good because it help me a lot for the next post. I didn’t had any problems with the blogging because all my group members were posting the day that it was due and I never had any problems with the posting either. How I said before I really like the way that we were all reading the same book and commenting each other about the book. I learn how to respond better at different things because as I was doing it every week I was getting better and better at it. Also I learn how to post about something because I was getting feedback from my group members and I was learning how to improve the next posting.

Well I choice the decision of doing a scene that struck me the most because Ms. Abbassi told me that it would be better if I do the scene that struck me the most than the book cover because it would look better. I was going to do a book cover because I thought it would be easily than doing the other things. After I show Ms. Abbassi my sketches she told me that it would be better if I do a scene that struck me the most so I listen to her and I did the scene that struck me the most. I think that there was a connection between my art piece and the book because in the book it said that she dreams that she was a woman warrior and that she was killing a lot of people. I choice the decision to make this scene because I thought it would be better than a lot of different scenes. I feel really good how my painting came out because it shows what really happened in the book. The only thing that I didn’t like about my painting was that the eyes from all my persons that were in my painting didn’t came out how I thought they would because they look like if a little kid did them. I think if I would of change the eyes from all my persons my painting would of come really good because everything else it was really great and I like how I did my painting. What I learn about reflecting my Lit Circle book to an art piece was how specific you can be if you read the book really carefully and you can make a really good job at the art piece because you are just painting what come out of your imagination.

When I was interviewing my participant it good because it was easy for me. Also because I sent him about 20 – 15 questions pert interview. He answer me all of them and some of them he didn’t because he couldn’t remember. My interviews were kind of smooth because sometimes I couldn’t communicate with him because he never answer his phone or he never read my e-mails but, other than that it went really good. I felt really good interviewing him in three different methods because I like how the process went. But the only difficulty that I had was that I never had the change to interview him in person because sometimes he never answer the phone or I had to leave out of town for an emergency. I would like o have that opportunity because I could learn more about him and his family. Also I could learn more about immigration more than I know right now. I only interview him my e-mail and by the phone. In the first interview my participant told me that he got the change to go to three different states when he was small Iran, Australia, and California. He was born in Iran. They went to Australia because they took an airplane to California. They got the airplane from Australia to California because the airplane was too expensive from Iran to California. In the second interview he told me that he immigrated with the rest of his family members. The most impacting thing that I learn about immigration was that they had a hard time trying to immigrate to the United States and that they had really hard lives back in the time because there was slavery. I haven’t had the opportunity to give my gift to my participant because I haven’t had the chance to interview him in person that’s why I haven’t give him my gift. When I interview him I’m going to ask him what he wants. The gift that I have plan to give him is a self-portrait of himself to thank him.