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Set Up
Literature Selection (Newberry winner, great controversial issue, imaginative, sci fi?)
Invitation into theme: Journal & discuss the perfect world & conformity/individuality (examples, non-examples, pros, cons)
Access: Provided book on tape at listening center, each student has own text, contact itinerant staff. parents notified of reading schedule
Tools & Modeling
Practice Book Club: Do shared reading of childrens book, Chrysanthemum, or read aloud of Freak the Mighty, & do practice tripod (plot, personal, & authors craft) as response & fishbowl Book Club
Grouping (table of 4, mixed gender & ability & behavior)
Curricular Connections
Process Writing: Poetry Writing Tools
Word Study: denotation, connotation, precise language use
Oral Language: debate
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Angles of Literary Response
Beginning Stages - Tripod
Text
plot line
literary elements and devices (detecting)
vocabulary (defining/denotation)
genre
layout
Authors Craft
vocabulary (critique, word choice, connotation)
structure/style
literary devices (critique)
Personal Response
How does the story, character(s), or theme(s) relate to your own life?
What does this story remind you of?
What is your opinion of the story, character(s), or theme(s)?
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Book Club
Assessment
Group Checklist
Connection to Current Community Shares
Angles to approach a book (personal connection, authors technique, & plot)
Characterization
Definition of Conformity
Basic Group Cooperation
Participation
Preparation
Polite discussion manners
Depth of Discussion
Beyond the words in journal
Amount of response to each other
Literary terminology
Quoted material from the book
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Assessment
Ongoing Assessment
anecdotal records
student reading logs
tapes of discussions
self assessment
Summative Assessment
Discussion record, recording, & self assessment
Complete reading log
Poem on conformity
Test: Conformity issue in fresh text (i.e. The Sneetches)
Debate: Conformity related issue (i.e. school uniforms, cults, military, Bill of Rights)
Expository Essay: Whats your point?
Hands On Project(s) (Dream House, Individuality Shield, T-Shirt with conformity/individuality slogan)
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