Discussion Director-Literature Circles – 10 ELA – Levine
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Discussion Director: Your job is to write a list of questions that your group might want to discuss about this part of the book. The best questions will come from your own thoughts, feelings, and ideas about this section of the book. You also need to write your own answers to these questions. Critical thinking questions only! If you ask a “yes” or “no” question, you must have a follow up of “why” or “how”.
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Connector-Literature Circles – 10 ELA – Levine
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Connector: Your job is to find connections between the book you are reading and other pieces of literature – plays, movies, poetry, video games, etc. MAKE AN ALLUSION. What, from literature, film, etc., does the reading remind you of?
Describe the part in the story in 3 to 5 sentences, and then explain your connection.
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Word Watcher– 10 ELA – Levine
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Word Watcher:
Your job is to look for 5 words in your reading. Ifyou find words that are puzzling or unfamiliar, mark them down on this page while you arereading. Later, you can look them up in a dictionary and write down their definitions. Youmay also find words in the reading that are significant to the story. Mark these words too,and be ready to point them out to the group. When your circle meets, help members findand discuss the words.
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Illustrator-Literature Circles – 10 ELA – Levine
Name: ______Period______
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Illustrator: Your job is to draw some kind of a picture related to what you read inyour section. It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, or stick figure scene. It can beabout something that you read, something that the reading reminded you about, oran element of the story (plot, character, setting). NO LINED PAPER!
This will be presented to the class during the presentation portion of the class.
Illuminator – 10 ELA – Levine
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Illuminator: Your job is to choose 3quotes from the readingto discuss with your group. Your purpose is to help other students by spotlightingsomething interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important from the text. Read the quotes aloud Includeyour reasons for picking the quotes or sections you did. Please record the pagenumber. Identify the figurative language and write down its implied meaning. How does the figurative language add to the meaning?
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