Book Club - Literature Circle – Roles
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Meeting # 1 Date: January 10–Chapters ______
Name of Student Role in the Group
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______Connector
______Summarizer
Meeting # 2 Date: January 17 – Chapters ______
Name of Student Role in the Group
______Discussion Director
______Passage Master
______Vocabulary Enricher
______Illustrator
______Connector
______Summarizer
Meeting # 3 Date: January 24 – Chapters ______
Name of Student Role in the Group
______Discussion Director
______Passage Master
______Vocabulary Enricher
______Illustrator
______Connector
______Summarizer
Meeting # 4 Date: January 31 – Chapters ______
Name of Student Role in the Group
______Discussion Director
______Passage Master
______Vocabulary Enricher
______Illustrator
______Connector
______Summarizer
Discussion Director
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Period ______Date ______
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Purpose: Your job is to develop a list of question that your group might want to discuss about this week’s reading Usually the best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and
concerns as you read, which you can list below, during or after you read. Try to ask open-ended questions that will get your group to make inferences, not just literal or “right there.”
Higher-level questions or topics to discuss for this week’s reading and possible answers (Create at least six questions and answer them completely to prepare):
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Passage Master
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Period ______Date ______
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Purpose: Your job is to locate a few special sections of the reading that the group should look back on. The idea is to help people notice the most interesting, puzzling, or important sections of the text. You decide which passages are worth discussing and plan how they should be shared with the group. You can read passages aloud yourself, ask someone else to read them, or have people read them silently and then discuss.
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Vocabulary Enricher
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Title and Chapters:______
Purpose: Your job is to be on the lookout for words – new, interesting, strange, important, puzzling, or unfamiliar words – words that members of the group need to notice and understand. Mark some of these key words while you are reading (write them in context to help your group to understand them), and then later jot down their definition, either from the text or from a dictionary of other source. In the group, help members to find and discuss these words.
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Illustrator
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Period ______Date ______
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Purpose: Your job is to create a mini-poster related to the reading. You may include a sketch, diagram, flow-chart, main ideas, or a collage of images. Convey the ideas and feelings you got from the reading. Make your rough draft below, and a final draft on a separate sheet of paper. Include the title and author of the book you are reading.
Presentation Plan: When the Discussion Director invites your participation, show your poster to your group. Allow group members to comment on the images and connect them to their own ideas about the reading. After everyone has commented, you get the last word: you get to discuss the images, where they came from, or what they represent to you.
- To brainstorm below, include the title and the author.
- Include important words and captivating images.
- Include a caption explaining what you are portraying.
- Create your final illustration on a separate sheet of paper to be displayed in the classroom.
Connector
Name ______
Period ______Date ______
Title and Chapters:______
Purpose: Your job is to find connections to relate to your reading to make it more memorable and interesting. You will need to do research to complete this job.
You need to find and print articles, images, or other information related to the chapters you read.
Share the information with your group members.
Describe some connections you found between this reading and other people, places, and events. Attach additional information or images to enrich your reading.
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Summarizer
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Purpose: Your job is to summarize this week’s reading. Your summary should serve as a review of the chapter, so make sure you have included all the major concepts. It can be in paragraph form or as an outline or graphic organizer, flow chart, semantic web, or any other format.
My summary of the reading:
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