Literature Circles
Throughout the Scarlet letter unit, each student will participate in a literature circle in which a group of four students will come together and share their interpretations of each day’s assigned reading. The sharing of these interpretations will completely student-centered, so it will be your responsibility to ensure that you and the members of your circle grasp the literary significance of the novel.
Literature Circle Roles:
The roles MUST rotate for each assignment; no student may repeat a role until he or she has served in every other role, and this cycle should repeat every five to six assignments. The roles are as follows (not every role will be present on each day):
Literature Circle Roles:
The roles MUST rotate for each assignment; no student may repeat a role until he or she has served in every other role, and this cycle should repeat every five to six assignments. The roles are as follows (not every role will be present on each day):
- Discussion Director: develops questions about “big ideas” (theme) for the circle to discuss; they are also responsible for facilitating the circle’s discussion, and keeping the circle on task.
- Synoptic Summarizer: usually the first circle member to report, the Synoptic Summarizer concisely highlights the major and significant events in the reading.
- Literary Luminary: finds "close reads" or significant passages that the literature circle should hear aloud and analyze closely; they also analyze the passages BEFORE they discuss them with the group so that they may lead the discussion.
- Word Watcher: finds words that the group should know; these words should be new, challenging, interesting, or bizarre, and they must be significant to the text.
- Innovative Illustrator: draws a significant idea, event, or sequence to help group members visualize the reading; they may use cartoons, graphs, webs, charts, maps or other creative forms of visualization.
- Clever Connector: connects the reading to "real life" events; they may reference recent events, historical events, familiar people and places, stories read in class, or American and international culture.
In the case of absences, ALL Lit. Circle members are still responsible for completing all readings and assignments. If a Lit. Circle member is absent, he or she should be assigned a role (excluding the discussion director, summarizer, or literary luminary), and should be contacted (via telephone—if you’d like to send an e-mail as well, you may) and given their role for the assigned reading section .
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