Lit Circle Day - 3/4 point

Today is our Literature Circle Day in the library. Many of the groups have lit up with discussions. PARTICIPATE. SHARE YOUR THINKING.

Take a look at the Rubric and the Discussion Starters for ideas. Remember that we will only check into our Lit. Circles one more time online. Then, the groups will close and you will have a final assignment to complete. By next week, you need to have finished reading the entire novel.

Today's Tasks:

All
Online discussion forums are more and more the way of the future of education. Colleges and universities, in particular, are heading towards more and more online work. Given this, take a look at your group participation so far. Think about how you could do more. Then, do it. Discuss more, say more, read more. If your group members are not participating, talk to them, email them...
Peruse your shared resources - find the best two quotes about the book or something related to the book. Put them in the Resources Discussion on the comment wall.

Discussion Director - Look at all of the discussions so far and post a discussion that will really shake your group up. You can be controversial, inflammatory... whatever works to spark some new ideas about the book you are reading.

Connection Maker - What are the connections we are missing? Your last task was to consider text to self connections. Yoday, you'll add in a new layer of connections - text to world connections. One possible way to do this is to consider stories that have been in the news of late...

Passage Picker - for the 1/2 - 3/4 check in on the novel, decide what quotes/scenes are most important to note. Explain why they are important.

Summarizer - summarize the novel from where you left off to 3/4 of the way through the novel.

Online Literature Circles Begin

Today: we will be getting into our Online Groups - where we will discuss the novels you are reading.

Go to:

http://elevens.ning.com/




Tomorrow: Literary Paragraphs are due.

Online Lit Circle - Book Choices

Catcher in the Rye

Deniro`s Game

Lord of the Flies

Oryx and Crake

Obasan

Of Mice and Men

The Secret Life of Bees

A Complicated Kindness

Into the Wild

Wednesday, May 5th

1) Silent Reading

2) Announcements

• Wrap up novel discussions/literature circle today. Tomorrow we start writing a BIG paper with the whole deal - cover page, citations, research, quotations, works cited page and 750 word minimum (3 typed pages).
• June upcoming story telling unit - working briefly with a Brooklyn classroom. Your first task is to think of a book or story from your childhood that you never forgot, and that you could argue you learned something from. The idea came from this book.
• Macbeth is coming, Macbeth is coming...

3) Bookable Lab - Wrapping up Lit. Circles - notes in the NING.

Earth Day! Thursday, April 27th.

Quote of the Day:

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is a rapture on the lonely shore,
there is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, byt nature more."
~~Lord Byron, from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

In honour of Earth Day, 2010, I have pledged to go paperless. So, today everything you need to do is posted here and inside our elevens network.

Today is our Literature Circle Day in the library. Many of the groups have lit up with discussions. PARTICIPATE. SHARE YOUR THINKING.

Take a look at the Rubric and the Discussion Starters for ideas. Remember that we will only check into our Lit. Circles one more time online. Then, the groups will close and you will have a final assignment to complete. By next week, you need to have finished reading the entire novel.

Today's Tasks:

1. All
   Online discussion forums are more and more the way of the future of education. Colleges and universities, in particular, are heading towards more and more online work. Given this, take a look at your group participation so far. Think about how you could do more. Then, do it. Discuss more, say more, read more. If your group members are not participating, talk to them, email them...
2. Peruse your shared resources - find the best two quotes about the book or something related to the book. Put them in the Resources Discussion.
   
3. Roles

Discussion Director - Look at all of the discussions so far and post a discussion that will really shake your group up. You can be controversial, inflammatory... whatever works to spark some new ideas about the book you are reading.

Connection Maker - What are the connections we are missing? You should have thought about text-to-text connections, text-to-self connections and text-to-world connections. Add in a new layer of connections. One possible new connection, is to look at the author's life and make connections.

Passage Picker - for the 1/2 - 3/4 check in on the novel, decide what quotes/scenes are most important to note. Explain why they are important.

Summarizer - summarize the novel from the halfway point to 3/4 of the way through.

TOMORROW: Hand-in your journals and your paragraph about the poem you have selected to read.

Wednesday, April 13th

Library Day - Literature Circle Tasks