LITERATURE+CIRCLE+ROLES

=Language Arts Roles:=

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 * Artful Artist: ** Your job is to draw some kind of picture related to the reading. It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, flow chart or stick-figure scene. You can draw a picture of something that's discussed specifically in your book, or something that the reading reminded you of, or a picture that conveys any idea or feeling you got from the reading. Any kind of drawing or graphic is okay - you can even label things with words if that helps. **Make your drawing on a piece of unlined paper. It should be full-sized and in color with a quote and page number on the back.** =====
 * Presentation Plan:** When the Discussion Director invites your participation, you may show your picture without comment to the others in the group. One at a time, they get to speculate what your picture means, to connect the drawing to their own ideas about the reading. After everyone has had a say, you get the final word: tell them what your picture means, where it came from, or what it represents to you.

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 * Community Connector: ** Your job is to connect the contents of the reading selection to current or past real world events and experiences. You will also connect the reading to other forms of literature, music, art and/or media. =====

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 * Discussion Director: ** Your job is to develop a list of questions that your group might want to discuss about this part of the book and direct the discussion by asking each member for their input based on their current role. Don't worry about the small details; your task is to help people talk over the "big ideas" in the reading and share their reactions. Usually the best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings and concerns as you read, which you can list below, during or after your reading. Any passage that makes you say, “A-ha!” is a good one. Any explanation that goes beyond the text is a good one! =====

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 * Literary Luminary: ** Your job is to locate a few special sections of the text that you think your group would like to read aloud. The idea is to help people remember some interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important sections of the text. You decide which passages or paragraphs are worth hearing, and then jot plans for how they should be shared. You can read the passages aloud yourself, or ask someone else to read them, then discuss them as a group. =====
 * ===== **Location**  ===== || =====**Quote**===== || =====  **Explanation **  ===== ||
 * ===== 1. PG # ===== || ===== ===== || ===== ===== ||
 * ===== 2. PG # ===== || ===== ===== || ===== ===== ||
 * ===== 3. PG # ===== || ===== ===== || ===== ===== ||
 * ===== 4. PG # ===== || ===== ===== || ===== ===== ||
 * ===== 5. PG # ===== || ===== ===== || ===== ===== ||

** Vocabulary Virtuoso **
====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. ====

= = = = =Social Studies Roles:=
 * ==== Page No. & Sentence Used ==== || ====Word==== || ====Definition==== ||

**Suggested areas of research:**

 * ====The geography, weather, culture and history of the book’s setting.====
 * ====Information about the author, her/his life, and other works.====
 * ====Information about the period portrayed in the book.====
 * ====Pictures, objects, or materials that illustrate elements of the book.====
 * ====Music that reflects the book or the period.====

Information of interest:
=Travel Tracker:= Your job is to carefully track where the action is happening in today’s reading. Tell the group where the characters have moved to and from and describe each setting in detail either in words or in map form. Be sure to give the page locations where the scene is described.

page _____ **___________________________________**
 * Where today’s action begins: ___________________________________ **
 * ___________________________________ **

page _____ **___________________________________** page _____ **___________________________________**
 * Where key events happen: ___________________________________ **
 * ___________________________________ **
 * Where today’s action ends: ___________________________________ **
 * ___________________________________ **