Welcome to Literature Circles!

Your wiki will be a place where you can share all your learnings about the novel you are studying! How great is that. Even better, you can access it from home and edit or add content any time you would like! Wow! No more sitting around the house watching television. You can be exploring your novel and sharing it with people around the globe!

Daily Activities

Reading and Making Connections

 As you read, use sticky notes to mark your connections, questions or clarifications, inferences, and passages that inspire images.

Meeting Day Activities

Share your thinking:

     1.     After each literature meeting, share your favourite three connections from your sticky notes.

     2.     Group members comment on each other's connections.

Just a reminder, connections can be text to self, text to text or text to world. 

Sample Connection: As I was reading To Kill A Mockingbird, I was reminded of the movie A Time To Kill. Both are about justice and racial discrimination in the Southern United States. The plots differ somewhat as in TKAM a black man tries to get justice when charged with a crime he did not commit.  A Time To Kill is the story of a black man trying to get justice for a crime he did commit. Both relate what it was like for people who tried stand up for justice amid racial tensions. I wonder if these events happened today in Saskatchewan would people allow their prejudices to get in the way of justice? Would justice be served?

This is an example of a text to text connection. It is a strong connection because it compares two works and poses questions for further response.

Characterization

 As a group, discuss what you have learned about your main characters and what they go through in this section of your reading. You will follow your characters throughout the course of the story, building a bank of characteristics and supporting evidence. You will later use this bank to complete an individual assignment called Character Poetry.

     1.     On your wiki, create a page called "Characters."

     2.     Keep an on-going list of the main characters in your story and characteristics of their personality. Beside each

          characteristic, type a quote to support your findings.

Sample: "I think of the old cliche, 'What's a nice girl like me doing in a place like this?' and I have to smile, in spite of the way I feel. I've survived before (p. 1)." From this quote, I infer that Angie [character's name] has been through challenging times and is a strong person. She's in control of her emotions because she smiles even when she's feeling unsure of her surroundings.

Summary Log

Create a page on your wiki for your summary log. Each meeting day, your group should discuss the events of the story. Decide upon those events that move the story forward and create a brief (2-3 sentences) summary. Add them to your wiki. Your summary log should include a minimum of seven entries. Please remember to date your entries and include page numbers where appropriate.

On-Going Projects

Photo Story

You will create a photo story of your novel. Your story should be framed by elements of plot (introduction, initiating incident, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution). You may use images, words and music to tell your story. The production of your story is limited only by your imagination. Keep in mind the theme of your novel.

Character Poetry

Create a poem about one of the characters in the novel. Post it to your wiki. Copy your poem into a wordle http://wordle.net/create. Save the image and post it to your wiki.

Audacious Audio

Using audicity, choose one of the options below. Export your audicity file as WAV to your "my music" folder. Then, select images and files and browse to find your audio file. Note that the audicity file will place itself wherever you have left your cursor. You may place background music to your project where appropriate.

     1.     Interview a character from the novel.

     2.     Give an expressive reading of a key passage from the novel.

     3.     Create a radio commercial for the novel.

 Test Audio.wav