3/8/18 **Find your seat quickly & quietly!** Answer the following in your spiral: In literature, “motivation” is defined as a reason behind a character's specific action or behavior. What motivates your novel’s main character?

3/16/18 Essential Question: How can I work with a group to better understand a topic and text? Standard: RL.6.3. Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. “Today I will participate in literature circles because it will add to my understanding and analysis of what I’ve read.”

Character Analysis Poster With your group, create posters illustrating examples of what the main character of you novel says, does, thinks, and feels. Feels Thinks Says Does