Stand By Me Assignment
Reading / Language Assignment # 2
Complete the following literature circle roles for Stand By Me with a partner.
Wordsmith:- find two passages of the movie that you find especially important or interesting. Write about the significance of them for you. Possible questions to answer - Why did you select these sections of the story? Is this a foreshadowing of things to come? Is something symbolic? Is this a relationship that will last?
Looks like – at least 2 sections of the movie/book that particularly interested you. You must think about appropriate sections that are best to discuss. Write about why you selected the section and what conclusions you could make from it. Support your ideas with the appropriate evidence or explanation. Think about whether or not discussion could be created by your selection – that is what will give you your marks.
-creativity and neatness.
Point of Viewer: your job is to identify how each character would be acting/thinking during different parts of the movie. How do the events of the story affect each character physically, emotionally and intellectually. Infer how they are feeling about events, people, settings, etc. Where appropriate, see if you could imagine a dream a character might have a night. Support your ideas with evidence from the movie.
Looks like-
-decide what section or part of the movie you would like to focus on. Try and replay that scene within the head of another character – thoughts, feelings, next motivation – if you are making inferences, you must provide an explanation of how you came up with that idea (connections, evidence)
-you could retell part of the story as the other character.
-if there is not much there in one scene, pick another
-if there is discussion, it was a great section to pick!
-creativity of presentation and neatness
Travel Tracker: Your job is to carefully track where the action is happening in movie. Explain where the characters have moved to and from and describe each setting in detail either in words or in map form.
Mood is also a large part of setting. Does your setting create a certain mood or atmosphere in the story? How? Give evidence from the story to support.
Looks like –
- Each important setting drawn out or described in detail. Either option must contain sections of the book that helped in the description. If things are inferred, then make sure you support your inferences with connections and evidence (bonus)
- Mood and atmosphere - describe the effects the setting has on the desired mood of the section – what mood and a description of your proof.
- Creativity of presentation and neatness
News Reporter: Your job is to prepare a newspaper article focussing onthe reading. Your article must cover the essential Who, What, Where, When and Why’s of the reading. For example – Headline: Local House Blasts into Sky
Looks like
- MUST follow format of a proper newspaper article.
- Appropriate story must be selected – pretend I am a editor – if it is a boring topic, I will turn you down.
- Bias
- Creating presentation
- Detail of your reporting
- Polish.
Connector:(easy) Your job is to connect the contents of the movie to current or past real world events and experiences. You will also connect the movie to other forms of literature, music, art and/or media.
Looks like:
-make as many connections as you can to your life, real world, other books or movies.
-don’t just focus on the plot – think about emotions, thoughts, physical
-can you create a discussion from your connections?
Illustrator: Your job is to draw some kind of picture related to the reading. It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, flow chart or stick-figure scene. You can draw a picture of something that's discussed specifically in your book, or something that the reading reminded you of, or a picture that conveys any idea or feeling you got from the reading. Any kind of drawing or graphic is okay - you can even label things with wordsthat help describe them.
Looks like: - a drawing of a scene that has the most meaning within your section. Must have a quote that accompanies the picture. A “grade 8 level of detail and neatness are required. Tough to get a 4, but really easy to get a 2.
Reviewer: Your job is to write a small book review of the movie. Use what you know about elements of a good story to discuss what is effective and not effective about the story. Is it good? Why or why not? Is it bad? Why?
Looks like:
- Rate the story
- Discuss multiple ideas that support your opinion – use specific parts of the story to illustrate your point and discuss. Remember the elements of a story to analyse a story.
- Discuss the counter point to your opinion – can you see another point of view other than yours?
- Originality of presentation – creativity
- Neat, edited and polished.
Inferrer: Your job will to make a few educated predictions about what the characters will going through next or what has happened to them in the past. What relationships will develop or fall apart? Use evidence from the story and your own ideas to support what you think.
Looks like:
-think about and make some creative inferences.
-should not just be a prediction of what happens next (that can be a part)
-support your inferences with parts of the book and explain how they connect to your inference.
-creative and interesting inference are half the battle – explaining how you arrived at them is the other half.
Presentation and neatness
Discussion Director: Your job is to create a list of questions your group can use to discuss the movie. Write questions that will really make your group think. The best discussion questions usually come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. You need to know your own answers to these questions before your group meets.
Looks Like:
At least 5 questions designed to make your group think.
Good questions create different discussions with the answer not usually in the text.
See Blooms Questioning
Character Analyzer: Your role is to write about the characters. Pick a character (that has not been analyzed in a previous meeting) and tell what he/she is like and how you know that he/she is like. Use quotes from the book (by the chosen character and by other characters talking about him/her). Compare the character with other people you know.
Looks like:
-deep analysis of one character – physical aspects, personality traits, what others say about them, thoughts, dreams, how do they react to different situation?
If you are inferrning you need to support them
Direct quotes to help support your thoughts
Presentation and creativity