Lit Circles June 2019

Today I handed out copies of "Animal Farm" along with our Lit Circles Packet  Lit circles are a new way that we are going to be looking at this novel.

Lit Circles Reading Schedule

It is important for students to follow the schedule carefully and complete their jobs. Everyone will do each job once. It is also important for students to keep their packets in tact to turn in at the end of the novel for an overall final grade.

Below are some resources to help students with some of the jobs in their packet:

Click here for a link to information on Bloom's Taxonomy that is mention in job #6 Discussion Director.

Below are the the review slides needed for the Critical Theories need for job #7 Critic:

Overview from 4/13 and Assignment due 5/4

Today we watch a video (click here to see the video) and students were asked to take it in on the first viewing and then try to find as many signposts as we could on the second viewing. We found 4 out of 6 signposts in the video, and several of them (again & again and contrasts & contradictions) were seen multiple times in different instances. They then had to write which signposts they found and answer the anchor questions/ mention the literary element the signpost reveals. THIS IS WHAT IS WILL BE EXPECTED on 5/4 for our signpost test except the students will read a story instead of watch a video.

FOR MAY 5--
1. Students should finish their 3rd book and do ONE more journal entry for that book.
2. Study each of the six signposts of fiction for a signpost test. This will be a closed note test because I will be grading student journals while they are testing. They need to know how to identify each signpost, know the anchor question that goes with it, AND know which of the literary elements go with each one.

Message me with questions.

Overview from 4/6 and Assignment due 4/13

Students took notes on Signpost #6 Memory Moment:

For next week, they are to continue reading their books. They owe me a journal on 4/13.

Overview from 3/30 and Assignment due 4/6

We reviewed Again and Again and Tough Questions.

I checked that students showed up with TWO free entries from the two weeks we had without a class. Some students didn't have the required journals. This is inexcusable. YOU HAVE HOMEWORK EVERY WEEK.

For next week, you should have picked and started your third book, and you should have one free entry for that book.

Email me with questions.

Overview from 3/16 and Assignment(s) due 3/30

Today we learned Signpost 5: Again and Again. The notes are below:

Book 2 is supposed to be finished by the time we meet on 3/30. We do not have a class on 3/23, but students are supposed to be reading their book this week and having a journal entry for 3/23. Additionally, they should be reading the rest of the book the week of 3/25-3/30 and writing a final  journal entry for that book. I am hoping to see more signposts showing up in your journal entries.

In short, write a journal entry per week and finish you book.

Email me with questions.

Overview from 3/9 and Assignment due 3/16

Today we did some extra practice with the signpost we learned last week, and I checked in with each student on their journals and how many journal entries they are missing.  Students should have 7 free journal entries written since we started back to FAME in January, but several students are behind because they didn't do journals certain weeks:

Due next week: All students must continue reading this week, HOWEVER students do not need to write any entries unless they have some to make up. I spoke with each student about how many journal entries they were behind on, so each student knows whether they need to write any this week AND how many.

Overview from 3/2 and Assignment due 3/9

Today we learned Signpost #4 Tough Questions:

FOR NEXT WEEK:

• You must be well into your next book (it is supposed to be finished by March 30th (4 weeks away)
• You MUST have a started cover page...please see last week's blog entry for a review of the cover page AND the video that shows the journals if you need it.
• You MUST have a free entry. If you didn't have a free entry last week, you may want to consider writing TWO this week...or responding to six different elements of your book instead of just 3. 
• Fill out this survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3Jm-VOohqB3iwK3zFhqZqTTUKECpubFoT5OgDLYRE1Vag-A/viewform?usp=sf_link
• Make me proud!