Organizes and Keeps Track of All the Work Done by the Group

Novel Team Jobs.

(ALL questions must be asked to the group. If your group cannot answer your question, ONLY the team captain may bring the question to the teacher.)

Captain:______

Pass out and collect books daily

Organizes and keeps track of all the work done by the group

Leads the daily discussion

Assigns tasks

Supports all group members (helps out when needed)

Keeps the job record sheet filled in.

Fills in for any absent students

Asks any teams questions to the teacher

Word Wizard- Choose 3 advanced words from today’s reading. Create a mini-vocab box for each word using word hippo.com.

Scene Setter- Using one of the comic strip creator programs, recreate a 3-panel setting representation of one of today’s important moments. Include dialogue bubbles to show what the characters were saying in that moment. Try pixton.com or comicstripcreator.com

Literary Luminary- Choose a powerful quote from today’s reading. Add it to the group’s google doc and save. This will become a wordle at the end of the story.

Researcher- Choose one historical question you have from the story. Find information about it in 3 different resources. Write the facts AND the source where you found that info. This could involve the setting the date, that characters, customs, artifacts, attitudes, etc.

Summarizer –Write a short blog entry on the summary blog explaining the most important plot developments from today’s reading. These should be complete paragraphs (5-10 sentences).

Illustrator - Create an artistic representation of what we read today. Can be stick figures or symbols, but needs to show effort and understanding.

Connector- Make connections from anything we read in the story to ANYTHING else out there in the world. You could connect the kinds of cars in the story to cars of today, the actions of the teenagers to actions of people you know, the history of the era to another time in history. Use bubbl.us to createa visual representation of the connections

Questioner –Think of 3 under the surface, critical thinking questions that your classmates could benefit from considering. Post them to the socratic method blog.

Bonus Tasks:

Each group member may do each task ONLY once per day.

Setting Box- Create an artistic 3-dimensional representation of one of the setting from the story. Should show tremendous effort. Should be colored and represent approximately 20 minutes of work.

Timeliner- Find clues from the story to tell you when the story is taking place. Use the internet to find out 5 facts about what was going on in history during that time. This can be local or world history and can reflect politics, pop-culture or trends. Use timetoast.com to create a digital timeline.

Storyboarder- Create a storyboard box. Each box (panel) must contain a drawing AND a quote from the story including page #. (1 point per box, qute and illustration MUST be different from those used by the Luminary and the Illustrator.)

Author Researcher- Look up the author online. Find 10 facts. Each group member must have 10 different facts from the other members, so coordinate with each other.

Predictor- Write 3 predictions for what you think is coming next in the book. For each prediction, give one piece of evidence from the story that led you to believe our prediction would come true.

Character Foldables- Choose 4 characters from the story. Make a foldable with 4 flaps. For each character/ flap, draw a symbol that represents that character. On the inside of the flaps write 5 facts about that character and 1 quote (with page #) from that character in the story.

Socratic Method Blog replies- Every thoughtful, well-explained and grammatically correct response recives 1 point.