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Literature Circles
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8
Grade Language Arts
Purpose
• analyze what you read in an
in-depth way
• respect others’ opinions
about literature
• listen and learn
• speak and communicate
Elements of Literature Circles
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Respect
Reading
Speaking
Listening
Writing
Illustrating
Decision Making
Cooperation
Responsibility
What to do
and
when to do it!
After a piece of literature has been
read, you will get into
your literature circles.
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II.
Individually work on your task
Participate in your group’s
discussion
III. Participate in the whole-class
discussion
Four (7) Roles
in Literature Circles
4 Roles in Literature Circles
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Discussion Facilitator
Passage Picker
Connector
Illustrator
Word Master
Recorder
Summarizer
Task of the Discussion Facilitator
• Generates (creates) “4”
questions that will lead the
group to analyze the “big
ideas” of the reading
• Leads the discussion with
the four questions
• Models listening
Task of the Passage Picker
• Locates “4” special parts of
the selection that impacts
the plot, theme, action, or
character development
• Justifies (gives reasons
why) the 4 choices
• Selects members of group
to read each passage aloud
Task of the Connector
• Identifies “4”
connections you have
made between the
reading and the real
world (TT) (TL) (TS)
(TW)
• Records the event in
the literature with which
you made a connection
to the event in your real
life
• Shares the connections
Illustrator
• Selects a scene from the
assigned pages that
made an impression on
you
• Illustrates that scene with
details so others will
recognize the impact
(Must display in-depth
thinking)
• Creates a clever caption
for your illustration
Summarizer
Your job is to write a
brief summary of
the story. That
means that you are
retelling the key
points in a shorter
version. Include the
main ideas, but leave
out small details.
Word Finder
Write down any words you don’t know. Also write down
words the author used that you think are especially interesting
or vivid. Use a dictionary to find word meanings. When your
group meets, help your group members talk about the words
you have chosen.
Recorder
• Your role is to record the main points of
today’s discussion. Your notes may be in
point form. Try to respond the key point
that each speaker makes. You will be
asked to share your record of the
discussion at the end of today’s Literature
Circle.
ADVANCED: Character Analyzer
Your job is to choose a character and write a
response about him/her. Does this character
remind you of anyone? What is your opinion
of the character? What does he look like, and
what does he do? Identify some of the
character’s traits and give evidence from the
story to support your ideas.
• Literature Elements
• Story Elements
Roll of Thunder Hear My
Cry/Sound of the Trees: Mildred
Taylor
• http://www.msu.edu/~wohltjes/WebQuest/task.ht
m
• http://jimcrowhistory.org/resources/pdf/amlit_lp_r
oll_of_thunder.pdf
• http://teach.fcps.net/trt8/Rolling%20Thunder/Thu
nderWebQuest.htm
• http://www.woostersch.org/library/WebQuests/W
Qrollofthunder.htm
• http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~elbond/thunder.htm
Sounder
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounder
• http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1936.
html
• http://www.sesdweb.net/37557132219357/
lib/37557132219357/African_American_Hi
story_Unit.html
VIDEO
• http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/s
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