Metacognition: Jane Eyre Writing Assignment

I have to admit that when I first heard about the Jane Eyre writing assingment, I was less than thrilled. The project itself seemed hard and on top of that, it was a group project which would take more coordination. However, I got into a group with 2 other girls that I trusted would do their fair share and we created our rules for collaboration. The rules seemed fair and like everyone could follow them. I think this was one of they keys to our success. Like Mr. Allen said in class, your collaboration group has to be made up of people you can trust. We divided the paper equally and each set out to do our individual tasks. I think that this was also effective because we saved time by each of us creating a section than if we had wrote the paper together. Yes, we had to spend some time linking the three different sections, but I think this was very effective. When it was time for me to write my portion, I was surprised to find that the majority of my good thinking happened while I was at the keyboard. While working on our short stories, Mr. Allen had said that the best thoughts come while your at the computer typing. I found this to also be true for this assignment. At first, I thought I would plan out what I would say and then type it. Although this surprised me, I liked it because I felt that I was getting more creative and working off of what I came up with. Overall, I think that the Jane Eyre writing assignment went very smoothly and the collaboration aspect turned out to be positive because it helped decrease the workload as well as spark creativity. Collaboration is also just a good skill to learn because it is used in the real world everyday.