Literary Circle Guidelines

Literary Circles - Block 6

Future -
Alex Stone.
Noah
James
Lorilyn

Love/Relationships -
Elaina K.
Sophia Q.
Brooke
Taimane
Jannatul

Death -
Mahad
Lucas
Destini
Abbie
Jade

War/Fighting -
Nathan
Maddox
Arun
Maddie

Crime/Mystery -
Sara
Carlos
Nivy
Alex Sk.
Mohannad M.

Adventure -
Derek
Sean
Darius
Carson
Nick
Vidhi

Block 3 - Literary Circles

Love/Relationships -
Halle
Sabrina
Yashavi
Amany
Karen

War/Fighting -
Alex
Usan
Josselyn
Matthew M.
Hector
Arjit

Crime/Mystery -
Lexi
Matt K.
ZB
Sean
Jada

Horror/Scary -
Chris
Sebastian
Max

Adventure -
Taylor
Hunter
Shuaib
Aditya
Tristan

Block 1 - Literary Circles

Past/History -
Ben A.
Spencer H.
Danielle C.
Nate F.

Love/Relationships -
- Cameron H.
- Kayla K.
- Amy K.
- Gabby T.

Adventure -
Ramit K.
Greg
Elijah
Rehman
Elisabethe

War/Fighting -
Martin
Brian Z.
Pasha E.

Mystery -
Mariah
Rahul
Sean O.
Joseph

Horror -
Tiarra T.
Ryan P.
Cameron C.

Crime -
Yancy D.
Manu
Akhil
Jiaya E.

Literary Circles - Academic

For the next three weeks you will be put in Lit. Circle groups based on the theme/genre of your independent reading book.

Each class you will meet with your group and discuss how your individual books relate back to your overall group theme. Each group member will have a role for each meeting. These roles will rotate. If your group is larger, there will sometimes be more than one of you completing one role.

General Guidelines - Role Sheets

These sheets will be turned in at the end of your Lit. Circle each class period.

On 4/5 (A) and 4/6 (B): Your group will share out on how each of your books relates back to your theme. You will do this on a poster made in class and you will NOT give away the end of your book to your classmates. Think about trying to sell it to them to get them interested in reading it.

Today (3/20): We will be attempting to get ourselves in Lit. Circle groups based on theme/genre (This may take Mrs. Whittington a little adjusting until the next class period).
- Then you will be separating your book into 6 sections. You will be responsible for reading a section before each class period so you have new content to talk to your group about.
- Do not fall behind or you will struggle to catch up.

Book Trailers

Today your homework is to come into next class with a new book!

You will fill out the passed out Book Trailers Chart for 10 book trailers. Watch 10 different trailers from the following lists:

YA BOOK TRAILERS 2016-17
YA BOOK TRAILERS
BEST OF BOOK TRAILERS

When your chart is finished, show it to Mrs. Whittington. You are then responsible for getting a new book from your list by next class.

Porphyria's Lover

You and a partner will be creating and presenting a body biography of a character within Porphyria’s Lover.

What is a body biography?

A body biography is a combination of artwork and writing (quotes from the book and your own explanations of those quotes).  You will decorate your body biography with these things in order to demonstrate your understanding of a character within Porphyria’s Lover. Please note: your body biography is not supposed to be a literal representation of what your character looks like. Instead, it should be more like a giant collage of written ideas, drawings, and symbols that work together to show us how well you understand your character. BE CREATIVE!

Use the guidelines below when constructing your body biography.

Heart: Special Relationships – Who/What is closest to the character? Place this character/thing in the heart and provide a quote that demonstrates this relationship.

Spine: Important Goals – What is this character trying to accomplish throughout the story? What drives his/her thoughts throughout the story? Place goals and thoughts on the spine and provide a quote that demonstrates both.

Strengths/Weaknesses: What is a strength your character possesses?  What personal quality needs to be improved? Does the character try to improve on his/her weaknesses? Find an area on the body biography to place the character’s strengths and weaknesses and provide a quote/quotes exemplifying both.

Symbols: What objects could be used to symbolize, or represent, the character? Find a place either within or outside the body biography to place this symbol and provide a quote expressing it.

Mirror, Mirror: How does this character see himself/herself? Display this inside a mirror. How is this different from the way others see the character? Display this outside the mirror. Provide a quote for how the character sees himself/herself and for how other characters see him/her.

Once you have analyzed the character using the above list, you will create a poster for your character.  All of the elements included in your analysis must be included on your poster.  You will be graded on completion and CREATVITY! Use your imagination to bring the character to life! 

Honors Big Question Outline Template

Please use the - Big Question Outline Template 

Due date: A day - 3/14 and B day - 3/15

Remember to fill out the works cited page at the bottom as well.

Keep the headers on your outline so it is clear what you are talking about.
Must be turned in on TurnItIn.com

REMINDER: BQ Annotated Bibliography due March 8th (A) and March 9th (B)

Big Question A Level Presentation Example
Additional Big Question Examples

Big Question Rubric

Found Poetry

Found Poetry is taking the words on a page of a book, and choosing only a few of them, to create your own poem. I have books available for use in my classroom.

Instructions:
- Brainstorm in your journal first, write your poem down there to check that it makes sense and that you have the best possible poem put together.
- It must make sense
- It does not have to rhyme
- Start with a pencil on your book page, circle your words wide.
- If you write over any of your words, you need to START OVER. It needs to be clearly readable.
- No one color black outs, artistic effort MUST be apparent.
- Do not select full sentences, or select so much that it just summarizes what is already written.
- SUMMATIVE grade.

Examples:
Good: Very artistic, time taken to clearly circle each word. Artistic ideas added.


Bad: (Poem is awesome, but paid no attention to artistic detail) Some words are slightly covered in marker.

Purdue OWL

Use this link - PURDUE OWL to search how to cite different artifacts. You can find how to cite interviews, polls, pictures, etc. all here. Make sure you do them correctly.