1. Linking ideas to build larger theories and interpretations
Interpretation Book Clubs

2. Look over your notes
Find a spot that captures your ideas about the novels big ideas, the lessons the author is teaching, or the author’s message and mark it

3. Look over your notes
Find a spot that captures your ideas about the novels big ideas, the lessons the author is teaching, or the author’s message and mark it
Now, the rest of you will listen as your group member shares, and you will capture your group members ideas in your journal.

4. New or extra?
Now we are going to do it again, with another group members info, BUT, what you are looking for is….is this new information or is this extra info that I could add to the first section I just wrote?

5. Teaching point
Today I want to teach you that readers link ideas together to build larger theories or interpretations. As they think about how ideas might connect they ask, “Could there be a larger truth or lesson here?

6. Go back to Sam’s writing of Wringer
We are studying the way that Sam gathered ideas about Wringer. Let’s reread his jottings.
What connections between these ideas do you see?

7. We are studying the way that Sam gathered ideas about Wringer
We are studying the way that Sam gathered ideas about Wringer. Let’s reread his jottings.
What connections between these ideas do you see?

9. Other ways of writing and connecting ideas.

10. Mid workshop

11. One more example

12. Share
Build a tower of ideas
Kek holds onto a little piece of cloth, because it is from home.

13. Share
Build a tower of ideas
Kek holds onto a little piece of cloth, because it is from home.
Kek holds onto hope like he hold onto that little piece of cloth.

14. Share
Build a tower of ideas
Kek holds onto a little piece of cloth, because it is from home.
Kek holds onto hope like he hold onto that little piece of cloth.
Readers, today, and always try to imagine that you and your club mates aren’t just talking but are building something together. Each of you holds a few small ideas, like little Lego pieces, and you goal it to link and connect those pieces together until you make something form them, something bigger and grander than the little piece you started with.

15. Homework