ELA - Ashwin

Ashwin Dev Dr. Cobos ELA 27 October 2017 Having worked on a major project in small groups, what have you learned to take with you to future small-group projects?        The most important thing I learned from this project is that communication outside of school is a very important part of the project, using email can be helpful especially if you don't have open work time on a certain day. Being aware of future assignments that are part of the project can also be really helpful, it's able to help with timeliness as well as having more time to improve and revise over the work. The last thing I learned from this project was to try as hard as you can to get your group members to do an equal amount of work, I didn't have to do this at all with my group but I can imagine what it would be like if group members didn't do an equal amount of work.        In future projects, I'll have to improve what I did in this one, I worked well with my...

Ashwin Dev Dr. Cobos ELA 27 October 2017 In what ways did Marjane find it difficult to fit back into Iranian society?  It seemed like Marjane wasn't used to all of the change in the people and places that were in Iran. You can tell that she tried really hard to forget about the bad things in her past, an example would be on page 245, once she puts on the veil she thinks about all of her individual and social liberty that she had in Austria. Putting on that veil had already reminded her of things she didn't want in life (wearing a veil, not being able to wear the clothes she wants, not being able to have parties, etc.) and that was only one of the things. From the point of Marjane coming back to Iran, it seemed like she was expecting everybody to be the same or similar to how they used to be. Her parents and grandmother aside, most times that she had met up with her past friends and people that she knew, it didn't look like she was too happy with the way that some of t...