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Summarizer*
Name: Daniela Medina Circle

(group’s name)
Book: Sadia
Meeting Date Assignment Pages
Summarizer: Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today’s reading. Your group
discussion will start with your 1-2-minute statement that covers the key point, main
highlights, and general idea of today’s reading assignment.
Note key plot moments such as: the conflict, climax, foreshadowing, theme
Summary:
Sadia is a girl who has been living in Winnipeg for more than 3 years, She is not a
refugee of Syria because she arrived before war started there.
Her best friend is Mariam a girl who is starting to take the hijab in the mornings, before
class starts. Also, the mother of Sadia is a little bit afraid that Sadia can do that, but
Sadia is really secure about her culture and what she beliefs.
Key Points:
1. Sadia follow her culture and also respect it, she is really secure about what she
thinks
2. Mariam is starting to take the hijab out in the mornings, maybe because she wants to
be accepted in a social group and because she is not secure of what she thinks
3. Sadia is a little bit worried Mariam, because she is trying to understand why Mariam
is doing that, why is take out the hijab before classes.
4. The mom of Sadia understand that that can happen to Sadia, that’s why she is
always talking with her, because that is part of them.
Connections: What did today’s reading remind you of?
________________________________________________________________
Topic to be carried over to the next session:
*Adapted from Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in the Student-Centered Classroom by Harvey
Daniels (Stenhouse Publishers: York, Maine, 1994. Published in Canada by Pembroke Publishers,
Markham, Ontario, 1994.
Retrieved from: https://umdrive.memphis.edu/.../Literature%20Circles/Literature%20Circles%20Role
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Travel Tracer*

(group’s
name)
Book: Sadia Meeting Date Assignment Pages
Travel Tracer: When you are reading a book in which characters move around often
and the scene changes frequently, it is important for everyone in your group to know
where things are happening and how the setting may have changed. So that’s your job:
 track carefully where the action takes place during today’s reading.
 Describe each setting in detail, either in words or with an action map or diagram
you can show to your group.
 Be sure to give the page locations where the scene is described.
Describe or sketch the setting

where today’s action begins
Page where it is described ________

Amira and Sadia went to the house of Amira to leave the brothers of Amira and the she
asked permission for hanging out with Sadia.
where today’s key events happen

They went to the tobogganing and first Amira was scary because that’s was her first time
trying that, then she saw that Sadia try it and she did it and she look that that was really
funny, she was really excited, because normally she dint use hang out with friends
because she doesn’t have a lot of permissions.
where today’s eve

In the house of Amira because they return back to it.
Topic to be carried over to the next session:

_________________________Assignment for next session:
Pages_______to_______
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Literature Circles Role Sheet
Device Detective

(group’s
name)
Book: Sadia Meeting Date
Investigator: Your job is to identify key literary devices that emerge as you read
Keep an eye out for any literary device—onomatopoeia, irony, similes,

metaphors, personification, juxtaposition, oxymorons, hyperbole, ridicule, satire…
Find and note several here in MLA format. Identify the device being used and
make some notes about what you think the significance is. This will be your
contribution to the formal discussion.
“As we were waiting for everyone to join us, Amira brought her father over to
congratulate me. I felt like a celebrity the way he gushed about my play”
(XXVI.VI. 312)
This part is when the father of Amira is congratulating Sadia because she is very
good playing basketball and she did it very well in the tournament, this a simile
because in the part that says “I felt like a celebrity” the word like makes this a
simile, because she is comparing her as a celebrity,
Topic to be carried over to the next session: __________________________
Assignment for next session: Pages_______to________
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Connector*

(group’s name)
Connector: Your job is to find connections between the book your group is reading and
the world outside. This means connecting the reading to your own life, happenings at
school or in the community, similar events at other times and places, or other people or
problems that this book brings to mind. You might also see connections between this
book and other writings on the same topic or other things we have read together. There
are no wrong answers here. Whatever the reading connects you with is worth sharing!
Some connections I found between this reading and other people, places, events,
authors:
1. The first connection that I found that is really similar to the real life is that when
someone arrive to a new country where to live is a little bit difficult because it
changed a lot, is completely different the culture, traditions, food and also family
and friends are not near to you, so when Amira arrived to Canada it was difficult
for her and more because she was a refugee.
2. The second connection that I found was racism with the mother of Sadia, when
she was in the street she suffered racism.
3. The third was discrimination with Sadia, when she wanted to play in the
tournament, but the rules were that she can play but just if she take the scarf out
of her head, that Is discrimination because it doesn’t matter is she have
something in the head and more because she is really good playing basketball.
4. And the forth connection was that Mariam started taking out her hijab every
morning before classes, so is something real in the real life because that
happens when someone is not secure and also when someone wants to be part
of an asocial group.
Topic to be carried over to the next session: __________________________
Assignment for next session: Pages_______to___

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Vocabulary Enricher*
Name Daniela Medina Circle

(group’s
name)
Vocabulary Enricher: Your job is to be on the lookout for a few especially important
words in today’s reading. If you find words that are puzzling or unfamiliar, mark them
while you are reading and then later jot down their definition, either from a dictionary or
from some other source. You may also run across familiar words that stand out
somehow in the reading – words that are repeated a lot, are used in an unusual way, or
provide a key to the meaning of the text. Mark these special words and be ready to point
them out to the group. When your circle meets, help members find and discuss these
words.
Page No. & Word Definition

Paragraph
Gaze
To look at something or someone for
long time
Clumped A group specially of these or flowers
Grid A wide smile
Cringing
To suddenly move away from
someone or something
Knot A join made by tying together the ends
of a piece
Spewed
If something spews liquid or gas
Slack
Not light, loose
*Choose one vocabulary word, and on the back complete a vocabulary illustration for
that word. Write the word, draw an illustration that best represents that word and use
the word in context.
“Face Timing them at their flats in England. When

we went to the public library, she gazed longingly at the
shelves of books, watching the librarians go about
their work with hawkish interest.”
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Summarizer*

Name: Daniela Medina Circle

Meeting Date Assignment Pages

Connections: What did today’s reading remind you of?

Topic to be carried over to the next session:

Name: Daniela Medina Circle

Describe or sketch the setting

Page where it is described ________

where today’s key events happen

where today’s eve

Topic to be carried over to the next session:

Name: Daniela Medina Circle

Keep an eye out for any literary device—onomatopoeia, irony, similes,

Topic to be carried over to the next session: __________________________

Assignment for next session: Pages_to__

Name: Daniela Medina Circle

Topic to be carried over to the next session: __________________________

Assignment for next session: Pages_____to_

Name Daniela Medina Circle

Page No. & Word Definition

Grid A wide smile

“Face Timing them at their flats in England. When

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