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Literature Circles

Novel Title: ______________________________ Group Members__________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________

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Student Names: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Participation/Focus

Think of FIVE fat questions to ask your group. Do not accept yes or no answers. Ask the members WHY to help them develop their responses. This will help create DISCUSSION.

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DIRECTIONS: Please include three words for each lit circle meeting Circle Meeting # 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 Word and page Meaning OR Reason for choosing

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DIRECTIONS: For each lit circle meeting, please make one prediction. Then explain your prediction using evidence from the novel.
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DIRECTIONS: Write down FIVE important events that occurred in this section of your reading. Then write whether it was a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE event and explain why.
EVENT 1: POSITIVE or NEGATIVE?

EVENT 2: POSITIVE or NEGATIVE?

EVENT 3: POSITIVE or NEGATIVE?

EVENT 4: POSITIVE or NEGATIVE?

EVENT 5: POSITIVE or NEGATIVE?

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Feeling Finder
DIRECTIONS: In the first two hearts (Character Compassion), write down feelings you

think one of the main characters is experiencing and explain why. In the hearts below them (Reader Relation), describe a time you experienced the same feeling.

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READER RELATION HEARTS

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Illustrator:
As illustrator, your job is to choose a particularly vivid or moving scene from your reading and depict it in an illustration of some sort. This illustration can be drawn, created on the iPad, or it can be a piece of artwork of your choice! If you have any other creative ideas, please share them with me! This task is truly creative and based on your interpretations of the novel. Feel free to use the space below or on the back of this sheet to Explanation:

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Music Director:
As the music director, it is up to you to find a song (or songs) that match the tone/mood of your reading. You will share a clip of this song to your group along with an explanation of why you feel this song accompanies the novel.

Use the space here to write 5-7 about the song you chose. Why did you choose it? How does it set the tone for the novel? What does it add to the reading? Is there anything you might change about the song to make it better complement the novel? Be sure to specify the passage of the novel that is meant to accompany the song.

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