MAKE SURE YOU ARE PREPARED WITH YOUR ROLE SHEETS AND COPY OF THE TEXT. Please sit with your literature circle group.

Literature Circle #2 10 minutes per person:  Explain at least 1 text example  Pose at least 2 of your questions to your group and discuss in detail  Take notes & contribute!

Post-Discussion: Discussion Tab “Lit Circle #2 Post-Discussion” Respond to the question, respond to a response! Just like last time: Pick 2 questions from your role sheet and respond to them.

The purpose of this class: To teach you how to read for meaning and to figure out how authors create that meaning in support of a greater purpose. You’re doing this thinking every time you… Complete an I/M annotation Complete your annotation guide Write a reading quiz response

The type of thinking you should be doing: I: What strategy is the author using here? M: How does the strategy I just identified create deeper meaning in this section of the text? How does this deeper meaning support the author’s greater purpose?

Activity: Match the quotation … … to the strategy (I) … … to the meaning (M) …

Annotation Guides: I am looking for… A CORRECT & FULL DEFINITION of the strategy A CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED example of the strategy that is CORRECTLY CITED An explanation of HOW THAT STRATEGY CREATES MEANING and HOW THAT MEANING CREATES PURPOSE

Definition:Example:Meaning: 21. hyperbole – a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement for effect During the air raid, Elie remarks on “two cauldrons of soup! Smack in the middle of the read, two cauldrons of soup with no one to guard them! A royal feast going to waste!” (Wiesel 59) Wiesel’s description of the soup as “a royal feast” exaggerates the importance of that meager amount of food to the people of the camp in that moment. This hyperbole reveals Elie’s desperate tone, developing his transformation from picky child to a starving prisoner. * How does the strategy create meaning? * How does the meaning support a greater purpose?

Definition:Example:Meaning: 22. oxymoron – a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. During the Rosh Hashanah prayer, Elie “listened as the inmate’s voice rose; it was powerful yet broken …” (Wiesel 67) * How does the strategy create meaning? * How does the meaning support a greater purpose?

Writing about Literature for Reading Quizzes… With your group… 1. Select one person to read the response 2. Discuss its merits and shortcomings. 3. Assign the response a “score” and explain why.

Now look at yours… How did you do? Where was your writing not full enough to get full points? What can you do next time to make your responses better? What is your area for focus – closer reading or better writing?

Group Activity: Brainstorm for Reading Quiz #2: 3 IDs that might appear 3 quotations that might appear

Homework Reminders: Next Class: Reading Quiz #2 Online Lit Circle #2 Post-Discussion Future Dates: Both Role Sheets on turnitin.com – DUE 10/15, 7:15 amturnitin.com  Don’t forget to answer 2 questions on each role sheet Annotation Guide (all 20) – DUE 10/17 Book Check, Funny in Farsi, BRING 10/17