Ruqayyah's Reflection

When approaching this project I was keen to get started, as we haven't done group assignments in Lit before. I thought the Dr. Suess comparasent idea was great because Dr. Seuss's books always have such great underlying messages. After reading the story of King Looie Katz I told my group about my ideas, particularly of how one person can influence others to do things without them really questioning it. My group members really liked this idea above the ones they had previously been thinking about so we began to look at comparasents such as Hitler and the Nazis, the Pyramid Scheme, bullying, and then eventually the bandwagon effect. Sticking with the bandwagon effect we decided to base our essay around this idea of how King Looie Katz clearly shows how a bandwagon effect can start and end. I then went to work on two introductory paragraphs for our essay as well as a paragraph comparing the book to a current bandwagon effect, Facebook. I do have to admit that our group has had some major issues in completing this essay, as during the work week at school we were rarely there all together and I think communication out side of school was very limited. This last weekend I felt very abandoned with a lack of much communication from my group members till the evening before the due date. I ended up doing a huge amount of editing. If I were to do this project over I would probably try to have a plan set up of how we could get the work done on time and so that all efforts on the project were fair. I also found issues in citing inside the essay. I was unsure wether or not I needed to put things cited into quotations marks or if just the name in brackets was enough. I also was unsure of whether or not we needed to write more at the end of the essay about our citations even if our annotated bibliography included the same information. Looking at the final of our essay I hope that we have completed what was asked. When I did my editing I tried to go through and give comparasents to the story which was our goal in the first place as my partners often forgot to do so. Also I ended up really adding to the conclusion because I found that it didn't close up things enough or really get out what our message was. I'm really sorry that our assignment was completed and handed in so late. I regret not asking for help when I noticed that the efforts in my group were not evenly spread out.