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Closely reading A Worn Path helped me to understand some of the meaning of the . While I understood some of the meaning, going over the meaning in class helped me to recognize the importance of race in the story.

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What helped me understand the text was being able to talk through it in class and having everyone's opinion being told in class. As well as that i enjoyed the way everything was written in the board.

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Discussing it in class helped determine and examine the plot and meaning of the text. Hearing everyone point out things that I missed while reading helped me understand the deeper meaning of the text.

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Analyzing A Worn Path in class helped me gain a better understanding of the story because reading the story myself, I did not fully grasp each concept of the story. Like the boy with the marble cake or the whole thing about race.

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The class discussion helped to find this I didn't realize. For example the idea of the boy drinking lye as a play of word for lie. I also found the marble cake symbolism to be interesting

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When i was reading A Worn Path alone, I highlighted certain lines and went back and re-read certain parts. When we discussed the story in class, it allowed me to gain a better understanding of the story by hearing what parts of the story everyone else thought were important.

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When i was reading A Worn Path alone, I highlighted certain lines and went back and re-read certain parts. When we discussed the story in class, it allowed me to gain a better understanding of the story

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When i was reading A Worn Path alone, I highlighted

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I felt that the class discussion helped me to find deeper meaning in the text. I was able to recognize the symbolism behind the marble cake, the dogs fighting, her struggle and much more. These were things that I overlooked while reading the story on my own.

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What helped me when analyzing a worn path was annotating and rereading the story. By annotating I was able to pick out those important part of the story that supported my main idea. Also by rereading I was able to better understand what I was annotating overall improving my understanding

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What helped me to better understand a worn path was annotating and rereading the passage. Also

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Discussing the story in class made me realize the meaning of the story in greater depth than what I found it to be when I read it alone. Reading the story more than once  and analyzing the text for important patterns and symbols helped as well,

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Every person in the class was able to contribute and add what they found meaningful in the story. By putting all of the information together we were able to determine the real meaning and plot and how everything relates to the grandson not being able to breath

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The class discussion today helped me understand all of the major and minor themes of A Worn Path because I was unable to fully analyze some aspects of the story myself. For example, I knew that the boy with the marble cake was special but I couldn't piece together why.

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What helped when I was analyzing the story was reviewing major events in the plot once more information was gathered, and the main ideas of the story started to become apparent. While in class, discussing the importance of the events, and the importance of the order of events as they occured gave clarity to the overall message.

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Satoshi Abe            Looking at the parts of the story with hidden meaning that gave the story a deeper meaning and also the importance of things like the pinwheel Pheonix buys for her grandson and the irony of it.

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Satoshi Abe            Looking at the parts of the story with hidden meaning that gave the story a deeper meaning and also the importance of things like the pinwheel Pheonix buys for her grandson and the irony of it.

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What helped me to better understand "A Worn Path" was re-reading it multiple times and taking notes on things that didn't make sense and stood out to me. This way, when we had the class discussion it was easy to break the story into parts and gain an easier understanding go the meaning.

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What helped me understand the story was our discussion in class. Hearing all the different ideas and comments changed my view of "A Worn Path" and the meaning. Discussing the details and different ideas helped me get a better overall understanding of the meaning.

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By discussing the plot with the entire class, I was able to notice parts of the story that were more important than I had originally thought. Discussing the events that occurred made it more apparent to me that racism was an important theme in the story.

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Having a discussion in class helped me further explore the meaning of "A Worn Path". I liked how it was a completely open conversation and that anyone could add to. Picking out all of the details that stood out in the story helped because we were able to examine them individually and come up with the meaning of the story. 

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Having a discussion in class helped me further explore the meaning of "A Worn Path". I liked how it was a completely open conversation and that anyone could add to. Picking out all of the details that stood out in the story helped because we were able to examine them individually and come up with the meaning of the story. 

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Reading "A Worn Path" on my own I was able to understand that one of the main ideas was perseverance by annotating the text, etc. However, the discussion in class today showed me that by making connections and looking deeper into the text and listening to what other people had noticed helped me make other connections and it became clear that a very significant theme of the story was racism.

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It was helpful to break down with the points of entry and the discussion was very open where you could add to it without feeling completely off on the topic. Also discussing the order of events and their importance helped bring the story together and helped to understand the plot as a whole more easily

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Everyone got to express their interpretations in class and pick out what stood out to them or what confused them. I found this extremely useful in helping me understanding the central theme of the story especially when all the little pieces fit together and all connected at the end. It actually made sense.

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Our class discussion today helped me understand the the different aspects that were being connected throughout the text. It's just so cool how analyzing the story and going through the smallest details throughout the story can build better understanding of the text.

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What helped me understand the text was how we broke down all the little details in the story that i didn't find while i read through the text. Hearing other opinions and ideas is a good way of gaining a better understanding of what the meaning behind the story is and how the different parts of it connect to each other.

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Rereading the story after a couple days really helped me to look deeper into the text and find things that previously I hadn't seen. Also having a class discussion in which many people could contribute what they believed/how they read it was super duper helpful. It found that explaining each part of the story helped when we brought it all together at the end to understand the story as a whole.

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Because we discussed it in class I was opened to many different meanings. Such as the boy handing her marble cake was her grandson.

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Because we discussed it in class I was opened to many different meaning. Such as the boy handing her marble cake was her grandson.

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I liked that everyone in the class was able to express their thoughts, feelings, or questions about the text. It helped to hear what everyone else noticed or were confused about. I liked that we were able to come to a conclusion as a class about the meaning of the story. Also, labeling certain events as numbers on the storyline helped to examine how the plot affects the meaning.

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Discussing "A Worn Path" with the class helped me to analyze the plot better. I received different perspectives people had and discovered new themes, ones that I didn't see when reading it by myself.

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By jotting down the very basics of the story and looking at it first as a whole, I was able to get a picture of what Welty was aiming for, but I struggled with the smaller details. In class, I liked that we alternated between looking at the story through  large and small lens because it allowed for all of us to build our ideas off of one another.

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During our class discussion when we discussed the meanings of different parts gave me a better understanding of the book. When I was at home, some things we discussed in class went right over my head at home. Even though I understood what I was reading at home, in class discussion made me understand the whole meaning a lot better.

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I found it useful to write down everything so we could have the information in front of us, in order to make connections - kind of like examining each piece of a puzzle separately before forming conjectures. Specifically for plot, I found that having the visual of the plot-progression mountain aided in my understanding of how different events fit into the story.

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When we discussed the story in class I started to see all of the things that I missed when reading it by myself, and I started to see how things in the story
were connected.

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What helped me understand the reading more was when we discussed it in class. Also in class, we found different connections throughout the text, that I would not have looked that closely into when i was at home reading by myself.

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While discussing the story in class I was able to discover more about the story that I would have otherwise overlooked and that helped to realize a meaning or theme that I had missed during my solo read of "A Worn Path".

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Picking out parts of the story that were confusing and discussing their meaning helped me to have a better understanding of "A Worn Path." By jotting these key details down on the board, we were able to come up with the central theme of the story.

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By discussing "A Worn Path" as a class, I realized the importance of race throughout the story.  From the marble cake mixing black and white, to the constant reference to Old Phoenix as a "colored person", as she describes the hunter as a "white man".  Clearly, her race is important through her journey to save her grandson, if he is still alive.

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By picking apart each line and labeling key points of the story such as the climax, we were able to find a deeper meaning of the plot and the story. Discussing the text in class helped point out parts of the story that may have been overlooked but are actually important concepts to understand.

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Throughout the story, different themes were made present through the text. That being said, there were many more themes that were not so obvious through the reading. Discussing the story in class helped me to understand the reading to its full potential. There were a lot of hidden concepts that are difficult to understand without discussing. 

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Throughout the story, different themes were made present through the text. That being said, there were many more themes that were not so obvious through the reading. Discussing the story in class helped me to understand the reading to its full potential. There were a lot of hidden concepts that are difficult to understand without discussing. 