9 th Grade
A LITERATURE CIRCLE IS LIKE A BOOK GROUP. You choose a book to read and everyone in your group reads the same book. There are other groups who are reading other books. Each person in your group has a role. Your group reads a chapter silently and then you come together to discuss and analyze your novel. The teacher is there to help you, but the students are in charge of running their literature circle.
Your role is the job that you have for that day in your lit circle. Each member of each group will get a chance to preform each role.
You are graded based on how well you did your role/job. You are also graded on whether or not you read the novel. You are also graded on whether or not you are keeping your lit circle on task or disrupting/distracting the members of your group or other groups. You will also take periodic quizzes on your novel to check for analysis and comprehension.
Discussion Leader- creates questions/leads discussion Diction Detective- analyzes word choice and author purpose Bridge Builder- makes connections to self, other text, world Reporter- looks at setting, plot, and characters Journalist- creates a double journal for the chapter
It will be on the projector as you enter the room. The pages for that day will also be on the projector. When the bell rings you should be in your seat reading the pages for that day with your role worksheet on your desk. Before the bell rings you should have: o Your novel o Your role worksheet
If you are absent you must stay after school to read the pages you missed and complete your role. You will have an NHI until you do so.
Deadline by Chris Crutcher Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Deadline is a 2007, young adult novel by young adult writer Chris Crutcher. The story follows 18-year-old Ben Wolf who has been diagnosed with a rare, incurable blood disease. Instead of receiving treatment Ben decides to pack a lifetime of living in one year. Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. Had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world.
Speak, published in 1999, is Laurie Halse Anderson's young adult novel that tells the story of high school student Melinda Sordino. After accidentally busting an end-of- summer party due to an unnamed incident, Melinda is ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police. Unable to verbalize what happened, Melinda nearly stops speaking altogether, expressing her voice through the art she produces for Mr. Freeman's class. This expression slowly helps Melinda acknowledge what happened, face her problems, and recreate her identity.
The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.
The Secret Life of Bees is a book by author Sue Monk Kidd. Set in in 1964, the coming-of-age story acknowledges the predicament of loss and betrayal. Set in South Carolina 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of 14-year-old white girl, Lily Melissa Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. She lives in a house with her abusive father, whom she refers to as T. Ray. They have an African- American maid, Rosaleen, who acts as a surrogate mother for Lily.
On the post-it note write: o Your name o Your top three novel choices numbered o One being the book you really want to read o Two your second choice o Three you wouldn’t mind reading it o Leave off the book you absolutely do not want to read