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Senior Lit/K. Goldsmith
Directions : You will select a novel and join a group who has also selected that particular novel. Choose wisely – a book that you know you might like and will read! The assignments will encompass about 28-30 pages a day. We will have some class time to read and prepare for the day’s lit circle assignments. You will rotate through the various roles each day and turn in your work each day. You will also choose a project on which to work and turn in as your individual final assessment. (* are “extra” jobs)
___Discussion Director: Your job is to keep the discussion going, to make sure there are not silences, not gaps in the conversation. You should come to the meeting with at least five "thinking" questions to ask in case the conversation slows down. These "thinking" questions should be designed to get people in your group thinking about issues and topics in your reading. They should not be "recall" questions that ask for facts from the book. You are also in charge of keeping the discussion focused so that things don't wander too far from the main topic, which is the book!
___Summarizer: Your job is to write and then present a summary of the events that happened in the passage that the group decided to read prior to the meeting. Using your written summary as your guide, you will remind people in your group what the passage was about. In addition to writing and presenting your summary, you will need to bring a thinking question to the group, a question that prompts the others to think beyond the facts of the passage. It is also your job to look for places where you disagree with others in your group.
___Illustrator: Your job is to quickly sketch key scenes in the passage you read prior to your meeting and to explain what is going on in those scenes and why you think those scenes are important. You will also need to bring a thinking question to the group, a question that prompts the others to think beyond the facts of the passage. Focus on the sketches.
___Literary Luminary: Your task is to find and write down three to five lines or short quotations, properly cited that you think are examples of good writing or that are key or important to the story. (*Think metaphor, simile, alliteration, foreshadowing, allusion or symbolism.) Ask questions about how or why these lines/passages are so significant. Push your group to explore these ideas by delving beyond the facts of the passage.
___Connector: You will search for connections between the reading material and something outside the text, such as a personal experience, a topic studied in another class, or a different work of literature. Explore, in detail, how the work relates to you and to your world.
___Word Watcher: Your job is to find between three and five words that are new or interesting to you. You will need to define each word, tell the part of speech (choose the part of speech that is used in your passage), relay the origin of the word, and copy the passage from the book where the word occurs. You will then lead a discussion within your group about why you and the others think the author chose to use that particular word rather than another for that passage. Pay special attention to any words/phrases that repeat. Think about connotation v. denotation as well.
___*Art Connoisseur: You will find some form of artwork to represent a significant scene or idea from the reading. Use the internet and/or our library.
*Mr. Worssam is also a terrific resource as well, but you need to plan ahead!
___*Story Tracker: You will prepare a brief outline of the most important events and ideas in this section of the text. Focus on changes in plot, character or tone. Identify main conflicts and rise in action to climax and denouement, etc.
___*Character Watcher: You will choose several characters from the day’s reading and describe their actions, thoughts, or other information discovered about them. Include information about the character’s purpose or role, including how they are important to the story and/or the story’s themes.

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Reading selection: page __ to page ___ Date:
Novel title: ______________________________ Senior Lit/K. Goldsmith
Role : Identify the most important parts of the assigned reading and develop questions that your group will discuss. Don’t worry about the small details: focus on major themes or big ideas in the text. Keep the discussion focused on them. What interests you will most likely interest those in your group as well. You may use the sample questions as a “basis” to formulate your own.
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What were you thinking about as you read? What did the text make you think about?
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What did you think was the major purpose or most important idea of this part of the text? The “ lesson ”?
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What one question would you ask the author if you had a chance?
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What was the single most important event in this section and why?
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What was the most important change that took place in the text? How and why did it happen?
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What do you know now that you didn't know before? What is the author's purpose, bias, or prejudice?
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What incident or conflict does the author use to begin the story? Why do you think the author chose this beginning?
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How does the author create suspense? Which character moves the plot along faster?
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Reading selection: page __ to page ___ Date:
Novel title: __________________________ Senior Lit/K. Goldsmith
Role : Prepare a brief summary of the assigned reading. Select the most important plot events, the key highlights, the major ideas and record them. To help you organize the information, consider making a numbered list or time line. (*If you are having trouble identifying significant events - What changes did you notice?) You may use the sample questions as a “basis” to formulate your own.
Sample Questions: These questions should center about “I wonder why …” types of questions. What questions might appear on an exam?
What might be a good essay topic for this section of the story? What clues did the author use to help you predict what was going to happen later ? What is the setting? Who is the protagonist? The antagonist? The mood/tone? Why?
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Reading selection: page __ to page ___ Date:
Novel title: ______________________________ Senior Lit/K. Goldsmith
Role : Your role is to draw what you read. This might mean drawing a scene as a cartoon-like sequence or an important scene so reader’s can better understand the action. You can draw maps or organization trees to show how one person, place, or event, relates to the others. Label your drawings so we know who the characters are. *Make your drawing(s) on the back of this page.
You may use the sample questions as a “basis” to formulate your own.
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Why did I choose to draw it the way I did? What do we see – i.e.: who and/or what is in this picture?
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What, if anything, did drawing it help you to see that you had not noticed before?
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What did this section/passage make you think about when you read it?
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What am I trying to accomplish through this drawing or map or tree?
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Reading selection: page __ to page ___ Date:
Novel title: ____________________________________ Senior Lit/K. Goldsmith
Role : While reading the assigned section, you will watch out for words worth knowing (*3-5 please). These words might be interesting, new, important, or used in unusual ways. It is important to indicate the specific location (page # and paragraph) of the words so the group can discuss these words. You may use the sample questions as a “basis” to formulate your own.
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What new words do you find in this section?
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Reading selection: page __ to page ___ Date:
Novel title: _____________________________ Senior Lit/K. Goldsmith
Role : Your job is to locate a few special sections of text that you believe are worth hearing and discussing. These passages should be memorable, interesting, puzzling, funny or important. *(Make sure you properly cite every quotation.) You decide which passages are worth hearing and then jot down why you chose them and what you want to say about them to the group.
You may use the sample questions as a “basis” to formulate your own.
Sample Questions: What is happening in the passage? Why did you choose the passage? What makes this passage so memorable , important or interesting ? If the passage confuses you, what do you want to ask group members to help you understand ? What does the passage mean? Why is it worth repeating? What important part of the text does the passage help you understand?
Literary Luminary’s quotation : __*citation should appear in parentheses (author’s last name page number ). __ Example : (Gaiman 35).
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Reading selection: page __ to page ___ Date:
Novel title: _______________________________ Senior Lit/K. Goldsmith
Role : Your job is to connect what you are reading with other events, elements, ideas you from know from other classes, readings or outside world. You can also connect with events in your own life or the world outside as depicted in the news or other media. Connections should be meaningful to you and to those in your group. You may use the sample questions as a “basis” to formulate your own. Include your group members’ thoughts in the list below.
Sample Questions: What ideas or events seem similar to things you know about people? What other characters or people you know about would act the way characters do in this story? What descriptions of the world or the things in it seem familiar to what you know or what you’ve read about before ? What makes that connection important? What other books, movies, stories, television shows come to mind?
Why? How does this selection relate to those that came before it? What is the connection that no one else but you can discover? What doe these connections show us about human nature or the human condition ? What did the book say about history ? Do you think the author is asking you to believe things in the book exist when we know they do not? Why and How?
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Mandala : After you finish the novel, you will draw a picture that represents the images and feelings and characters of what you read on a circular piece of paper. Label all the emotions/feelings. Identify which character is involved and if they are connected to anyone else. Make sure you title your piece. Then, write just one sentence explaining the drawing. Also, include a one to two page essay explaining how these emotions affect the story and its significance.
Main Idea or Theme Poster: Choose the main ideas and events of the novel to depict on your poster. Include 2-3 images of symbols that represent the book. Make sure you have an overarching title. Caption each of the images as well. Properly cite any images used from the internet, etc. (*For example, apples and milk bottles for Animal Farm and loaves of French bread and silver candlesticks for Les Miserables or spider webs and barns for Charlotte's Web . )
Found Poetry: Compose five "found poems" using the passage's exact words. Make sure that you alter or vary the words that you use so that you do not plagiarize! Focus on the protagonist, the antagonist, the setting, the main conflict, the climax and the resolution as the main “idea” of your poem.
Time Line : Create a timeline that traces a “positive” character and a “negative” one. Write about positive characters and events on the TOP of the time line and about negative characters or events below the time line (5 each min).
Choose the most positive event and the most negative event that occurred in the story and to write about them formally and analytically. How did those two characters influence others? The sequence of events? The outcome?
Internet Research Project: Choose at least five events, objects, ideas, etc about which you need to or want to know more. Research them and provide a mini “encyclopedia” entry about each. Include a picture or diagram, timeline or map, etc. as well for each. (*For example: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Chairman Mao, the Cultural
Revolution, Honore de Balzac, Red Guard, re-education program and the Great Leap Forward)
Food, the Book, and Writing: Assemble a recipe book (5 recipes) for foods or meals that are mentioned in the novel.
Explain why the food is so significant to the character, plot line, symbolism, etc. Prepare one dish for the class to sample.
Secondary Character Perspective: Write five one page journal/diary entries from a secondary character's perspective during the course of your reading and then to share your entries with group members. Think deeply and carefully about what this character wants, what motivates him/her, what inhibits him/her, etc.
Headlines: Write a headline for each chapter of the book that captures the important events of that chapter. The headlines must also include a “ tag line ” that attempts to predict what may happen next.
Letter-Writing between Two Characters: Write 3-5 imaginary letters between two characters in your novel. They should incorporate main conflicts, character motivations and eventual outcome(s).
Telegrams : Students can write telegrams of urgency from one character to another. Of course, cost must be taken into consideration. Every word or letter costs so much money. Decide how much money each character has to spend on a telegram. Compose 3-5 message within that character's telegram "budget" and focused on what is important to that particular character.
Editorials : Students can write a 1-3 page editorial on an issue that a book introduces or write an editorial from the perspective of a character keeping the novel's setting and the character's knowledge in mind.
Important Character Quotes : Collect important character quotes (8 min) as you read the novel. Afterwards, examine the list and write about what these quotes together reveal about the character.
Yearbook Snapshots of Characters : Assemble "yearbook snapshots" of various characters in a novel. They must decide on the following:
 nickname

 activities, clubs, sports, (and what years they participated)
 quotation that character chose that shows something about him and what is important to him/her
 favorite music/hobbies (must be consistent with setting)
 book that has had greatest impact on this character
 voted "most likely to......." by his/her class
 character's plan after high school
Find or draw a picture of your conception of the character (magazines offer help and so do computer clip art programs). Mount the picture on white paper with the information underneath as it might appear in a yearbook.
Advertisement : Write an advertisement for the protagonist, antagonist and one minor character from his/her pointof-view. Examples might include Charlotte in
Charlotte’s Web
offering her spider babies for adoption, Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter might advertise his healing herbs, or a soldier in All Quiet on the Western Front advertising his need for waterproof boots.
Alphabet Scheme : For each of the letters of the alphabet, choose something from the book that starts with that letter.
This can be a person, place, or thing. Then, write a brief explanation of the significance of this person, place, or thing was to the story. Put only one letter per page, but make them two-sided pages so it will read like a book. Add drawings/artwork on each page, or find passages from the book to quote and attach. Type these. Make a cover for the book and bind it together.
A is for...............
B is for...............
Creating a Childhood for a Character : Create a believable childhood for three particular characters in a novel. For example, students might devise a childhood for David Copperfield's cruel step-father Mr. Murdstone or a childhood for Jocasta of Oedipus Rex.
Poetry Collection : Create a collection of poems relating to characters and incidents in your book. Each poem must be accompanied by an explanation of its applicability to the novel. You must write or collect four poems. Together, create a cover and back for your collection and bind the poems within it. Be creative in your cover design and material you use. Possible poetic forms for you to choose are: "I Am Poem" (as one of the characters, a “found poem" (see #13), an acrostic poem based on the title of the book, and miscellaneous rhyming and free verse poems.
You can use published poems that relate to your novel, also. Please type all poems.
CD/DVD Cover: Using an actual CD clear plastic cover, please design a cover of a CD for your novel. On the inside of the CD case, write a list of songs which will "tell the story" of your novel. This song listing should fit inside the plastic case. Please add another sheet (or sheets) which explain why these particular songs reflect the themes, settings, events, and characters of the novel. You may also add the lyrics to each song.
*Newspaper Chronicling the Entire Novel: The main conflicts as separate news stories, photos with captions, headlines, “sports” page, opinion/editorial page (*usually regarding the main lessons, symbols, themes, obituaries, advertisements, etc.
*Homemade Cliff Notes/Sparknotes: This is a group activity and you can only choose it IF everyone in your group agrees to present this as the final project. Divide up the work accordingly. Write a self-styled "Cliffs Notes" for your novel. Write chapter by chapter discussion questions, quizzes, vocabulary lists and activities, maps, and test banks.
For extra credit, you can also write character descriptions, setting explanations, and theme presentations. Type these up and add a colorful cover in yellow and black ala the real Cliffs .
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“To Do” List for a Character
: I have had some success asking my student's to create "to do" lists for the characters in the story, usually as a review at the end of a section. The list should contain three or four items, going from general to fairy specific, until the last item makes it clear -- for those who read -- who wrote the list.

Life-Lines Project: Students collect quotations from each book/poem/play/short story they read all year long in their journals. At the end of the semester and at the year, they look over the list of quotes and decide why this group of quotations is significant. (formal essay assignment).
Pair/Share Journals: To keep variety in the classroom, I sometimes ask students in one literature circle to share their journals with another literature circle in the class. This allows the different groups to compare and comment on each other's findings and discussions. It also allows me, as the teacher, from occasionally NOT having to read each and every student's journal. I am able to collect any comment on them a few times less a quarter.
Occasional Thought Letters: This writing is longer than a journal entry (which often take about 15 minutes to write) yet shorter and simpler than a formal essay. It takes about an hour to write and could be 1 page typed single-spaced.
The student is able to write about an entire week's work in the literature circle or class and reflect on the "whole" of the week. I ask students to explain the most significant, problematic, exhilarating points we discussed or strategies we tried.
Dialectical Journal : Students write one or two significant quotes on the left hand side of their journal page. On the right hand side, the students then remark or comment or explain or question the quotes. This allows the students to grapple with the meaning of the passages.
My favorite character is ____ because she is so strong (choose an adjective here)
Then explain in great detail WHY you believe s/he is strong… (list at least five specific reasons)
Is the main character similar to a character you found in another book? What are the similarities?
Are there any connections between this book and your own life?
Would you like to acquire a personality trait of a particular character? What is the trait and why do you like it?
What makes you wonder in this book?
Is there an idea that makes you stop and think or prompts questions? Identify the idea and explain your responses.
If your book took place in a different setting, how would that change the story? Why?
What are your favorite lines or quotes? Copy them into your journal and tell why you like them.
How have you changed after reading this book?
What questions about this book would you like answered?
Would you like to read more books by this author? Why?
What do you predict will happen next in your book? Why?
What character do you like least? Why?
What character do you like best? Why?
If you could change the ending of the book, what would you do? Why?
Did the book end the way you thought it would? What clues did the author give you that made you think that? Did you think these clues were important when you read them?
Did any characters change during the course of the book? How did they change? What forces caused this change?
What is the mood or tone of the book? How does the author create that mood?
Does this book seem similar to any other book you have read? In what ways are the two books similar?
What were your feelings after reading the first few pages of the book?
What other important characters are there in the book besides the main character(s)? How are they important to the plot?
What clues did the author use to help you predict what was going to happen later?
What character would you like to be in this book? Why?
What do you think of a particular character's actions? Are they right or wrong? Why?
What confuses you in this book? Why?
What were some of the events that created conflict in your book? What made these things happen? Why?
What is the most important part of the book? Why?

What advice would you give a particular character? Why?
If you could introduce a character from your book to your family, who would it be? Why?
Which character would you be ashamed to introduce to your family? Why?
Do you think the author is asking you to judge one of the characters? Why?
Do you think the author is asking you to cheer on one of the characters? Why?
Do you think the author wants us to hope that two characters will become romantically involved? Why?
Knowledge Key Words: defines, describes, identifies, knows, labels, lists, matches, names, outlines, recalls, recognizes, reproduces, selects, states.
Who is the protagonist? Antagonist? What is the setting? Main conflicts?
What did the book say about history … human condition?
Define …
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Comprehension Key Words : comprehends, converts, defends, distinguishes, estimates, explains, extends, generalizes, gives Examples, infers, interprets, paraphrases, predicts, rewrites, summarizes, translates. Explain the...
What could you conclude about the villain because of … ?
State in your own words what happened to cause the problem…?
What will happen next because of…?
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Application Key Words : applies, changes, computes, constructs, demonstrates, discovers, manipulates, modifies, operates, predicts, prepares, produces, relates, shows, solves, uses. If you know A and B, how could you determine C? What other possible reasons...? What might they do with...? What would happen if...?
Analysis Key Words : analyzes, breaks down, compares, contrasts, diagrams, deconstructs, differentiates, discriminates, distinguishes, identifies, illustrates, infers, outlines, relates, selects, separates.
What must you know to believe that to be true? Does that follow? Which are facts and which are opinions? How is this similar to any other work or character?
Synthesis Key Words : categorizes, combines, compiles, composes, creates, devises, designs, explains, generates, modifies, organizes, plans, rearranges, reconstructs, relates, reorganizes, revises, rewrites, summarizes, tells, writes.
If no one else knew, how could you find out?
Can you develop a new way?
Make up...
What would you do if...?
Evaluation Key Words : appraises, compares, concludes, contrasts, criticizes, critiques, defends, describes, discriminates, evaluates, explains, interprets, justifies, relates, summarizes, supports.
Which action will result in the greatest good for the greatest number?
For what reason would you favor...?
Which of the characters would you consider to be of greater value?
How would your parents (or other adults) view this work?

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Novel title: _____________________________________ Senior Lit/K. Goldsmith
Directions : This is an ongoing task. As you meet and discuss the novel’s elements, carefully complete the information below.
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How is the “world” different now?