Tangerine Literature Circles
Section 2 Reading:
Thursday August 31st to Friday September 15th (stopping before you get to Part 2)
Step 1: Read the assigned section above. Use active reading strategies to comprehend the novel. Remember—you will have a quiz as an entrance ticket.
Step 2: You should use your class time, resource time, and homework time to complete your reading, your double-entry journal, and individual your task. Make sure your work is neat and thorough. All work will be assessed on the discussion date.
Discussion Director
- Generate 5 thought-provoking questions of each type below:
- 1 comparison question
- Sample question stem: How are ______and ______similar?
- 1 contrast question
- Sample question stem: How are ______and ______different?
- 1 problem/solution
- Sample question stems: What problem did ______have?
How did ______solve a problem?
Which solution was best for everyone?
- 1 cause and effect question
- Sample question stem: How did ______cause ______to happen?
- I prediction question
- Sample question stem: What will happen…?
- On your final copy, be sure to label each question as its specific type.
- Generate answers for all of your questions.
- Your answers must include the page numbers and paragraph numbers for where the answers can be found.
- For your prediction question, its answer should be based on specifics from the novel.
Tangerine Literature Circles
Section 2 Reading:
Thursday August 31st to Friday September 15th (stopping before you get to Part 2)
Step 1: Read the assigned section above. Use active reading strategies to comprehend the novel. Remember—you will have a quiz as an entrance ticket.
Step 2: You should use your class time, resource time, and homework time to complete your reading, your double-entry journal, and individual your task. Make sure your work is neat and thorough. All work will be assessed on the discussion date.
Passage Picker
- Choose 4 passages that enable your group to engage in a discussion about that passage. Each passage should represent the types of passages below:
- 1 descriptive passage
- A descriptive passage has many sensory images (color, scent, taste, touch) and uses vivid verbs and adjectives.
- 1 symbolic passage about sight (this should not be about Paul’s blindness)
- This passage should be about another character’s perception of the events of the story. It might be helpful to compare this character’s perception to Paul’s perception, even though Paul supposedly has a disability with his eyesight.
- 1 passage with a conflict
- Conflicts are character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. nature, and character vs. society.
- 1 passage that contains a mystery
- This passage should be one that presents an issue/event/problem that Paul or another character hasn’t figured out yet.
- Each passage should have its page number and paragraph indicated where it can be found in the novel.
- Each passage must have an explanation for why it represents one of the types above.
- Each passage must have a question to be discussed that you have generated based on that passage.
- Each passage must have an explanation one of the following questions:
- Why did the author include this passage?
- What does this passage add to the story?
Tangerine Literature Circles
Section 2 Reading:
Thursday August 31st to Friday September 15th (stopping before you get to Part 2)
Step 1: Read the assigned section above. Use active reading strategies to comprehend the novel. Remember—you will have a quiz as an entrance ticket.
Step 2: You should use your class time, resource time, and homework time to complete your reading, your double-entry journal, and individual your task. Make sure your work is neat and thorough. All work will be assessed on the discussion date.
Historian
- Read and annotate the Scope article, “Sinkho-o-o-o-o-o-l-e!: Solid ground isn’t always so solid” by Jennifer Dignan.
- Write a one paragraph summary of the article.
- Write two specific interesting facts from the article.
- Read and annotate the article “Sinkholes”. Rewrite/type the following questions and answer them on a separate piece of paper based on what you learned in the articl:
- How does a sinkhole form?
- What is overburden?
- Which type of sinkhole is the most common?
- What are some signs of a potential sinkhole?
- Read the directions and complete the Sinkhole Data Form.
Tangerine Literature Circles
Section 2 Reading:
Thursday August 31st to Friday September 15th (stopping before you get to Part 2)
Step 1: Read the assigned section above. Use active reading strategies to comprehend the novel. Remember—you will have a quiz as an entrance ticket.
Step 2: You should use your class time, resource time, and homework time to complete your reading, your double-entry journal, and individual your task. Make sure your work is neat and thorough. All work will be assessed on the discussion date.
Character Sketcher
- Generate 3 character traits (adjectives) for Erik.
- Explain in a few sentences to a paragraph proof that he does have each trait.
- Each explanation should include:
- Page number for proof of trait.
- Paragraph number for proof of trait.
- A sentence that describes Erik’s goal.
- A sentence that describes a problem Erik has.
- A sentence that describes the solution or possible solution to Erik’s problem.
- Draw and identify an object to represent Erik.
- Explain using evidence from the story to support why this object represents Erik.
- List each of the new character that have been introduced in this section.
- Write a one sentence description of each new character.