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RESEARCHER

Published at September 30, 2008 in HCA - Eighth Grade Literature, HCA - Harvest Christian Academy Parents, HCA - Literature Circle Job Forms and HCA - Seventh Grade Literature. 1 Comment

Researcher

Name:

Date:

Group:

Book:

Assignment - Chapter ____ - Chapter ____

Researcher: Your job is to dig up some background information on any topic related to your book. This might include the geography, weather, culture, or history of the book’s setting, information about the author, her/his life, and other works. You can also look up pictures, objects, or materials that illustrate elements of the book, the history and derivation of words or names used in the book, music that reflects the book or the time.
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This is not a formal research report. The idea is to find some information or material that helps your group understand the book better. Investigate something that really interests you – something that struck you as puzzling or curious while you were reading.

Ways of gathering information:

The introduction, preface, or “about the author” section of the book
Library books and magazines
On-line computer search or encyclopedia
Interviews with people who know the topic
Other novels, nonfiction, or textbooks you’ve read

LITERARY LUMINARY

Published at September 30, 2008 in HCA - Eighth Grade Literature, HCA - Harvest Christian Academy Parents, HCA - Literature Circle Job Forms and HCA - Seventh Grade Literature. 0 Comments

LITERARY LUMINARY

Name:

Group:

Book:

Assignment - Chapter ____ - Chapter ____

Literary Luminary: Your job is to locate a few special or quotations of the reading that the group should look back on and talk over. The idea is to help people notice the most interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important sections of the text and think about them more carefully. You decide which passages or paragraphs are worth reviewing and then jot down plans for how they should be shared with the group. You can read passages aloud yourself, ask someone else to read them, or have people read them silently and then discuss.

Page No. & Reason for Picking Plan for Discussion
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WORD WIZARD

Published at September 30, 2008 in HCA - Eighth Grade Literature, HCA - Harvest Christian Academy Parents, HCA - Literature Circle Job Forms and HCA - Seventh Grade Literature. 0 Comments

WORD WIZARD

Name:

Date:

Group:

Book:

Assignment - Chapter ____ - Chapter ____

Word Wizard: The words a writer chooses are an important ingredient of the author’s craft. Your job Is to be on the lookout for a few words that have special meaning in today’s reading selection. If you find words that are puzzling or unfamiliar, mark them while you are reading, and then later jot down their definition, either form a dictionary or some other source. You may also run across words that stand out somehow in the reading – words that are repeated a lot, used in an unusual way, or key to the meaning of the text. Mark these special words, too, and be ready to point them out to the group. When your circle meets, help members find and discuss the words that seem most important in this text.

Word Page No. & Definition Plan for Discussion
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SCENE SETTER

Published at September 30, 2008 in HCA - Eighth Grade Literature, HCA - Harvest Christian Academy Parents, HCA - Literature Circle Job Forms and HCA - Seventh Grade Literature. 0 Comments

SCENE SETTER

Name:

Date:

Group:

Book:

Assignment - Chapter ____ - Chapter ____

Scene Setter: When you are reading a book where characters move around a lot and the scene changes frequently, it is important for everyone in your group to know where things are happening and how the setting may have changed. So that’s your job: to track carefully where the action takes place during today’s reading. Describe each setting in detail, either in words or with an action map or diagram you can show to your group. Be sure to give the pages where the scene is described.

Describe or sketch the setting

Where today’s action begins: Page where it is described

Where key events happen today: Page where it is described

Where today’s events end: Page where it is described

8th Literature Homework - week of 9/29-10/3

Published at September 29, 2008 in HCA - Eighth Grade Literature, HCA - Harvest Christian Academy Parents and Just For Fun. 0 Comments

Week 9/29 – 10/3

Reading Log 9/29-10/5 due Monday 10/6

Thursday Oct. 2, we will review for Friday’s test on “A Light in the Forest,” and I will hand out last month’s rewards for most minutes and books read in each class.

Read “Gentleman of Rio En Medio.” This is the next story in your English Text beginning on page 50. Look over the questions, but you will not need to do them. We will cover them in class. Due Wednesday Oct 8.
NOTE: I am putting the Literary Circle Jobs on my website in the category: HCA - Literature Circle Job Forms

7th Literature Homework - Week 9/29-10/3

Published at September 29, 2008 in HCA - Harvest Christian Academy Parents and HCA - Seventh Grade Literature. 0 Comments

Week 9/29 – 10/3

Reading Log 9/29-10/5 due Monday 10/6

Read chapters 12, 13, 14 & Epilogue in “My Brother Sam is ” and fill out “Researcher” Literary Circle Job sheet - Due Tue. 10/7.

Read “The Countess and the Impossible” and bring in stories that contain interesting antagonists and protagonists. This is the next story in your English Text beginning on page 58. Look over the questions, but you will not need to do them. We will cover them in class. Due Wednesday Oct 8.

NOTE: I am putting the Literary Circle Jobs on my website in the category: HCA - Literature Circle Job Forms

Passage Master - Literary Circle Job

Published at September 29, 2008 in HCA - Eighth Grade Literature, HCA - Harvest Christian Academy Parents, HCA - Literature Circle Job Forms, HCA - Seventh Grade Literature and Just For Fun. 0 Comments

Passage Master

Name:

Date:

Group:

Book:

Assignment - Chapter ____ - Chapter ____

Passage Master: Your job is to locate a few special sections of the reading that the group should look back on. The idea is to help people notice the most interesting, funny, puzzling, or important sections of the text. You decide which passages or paragraphs are worth reviewing and then jot down plans for how they should be shared with the group. You can read passages aloud yourself, ask someone else to read them, or have people read them silently and then discuss.

Page No. & Reason for Picking Plan for Discussion
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Questioner Literary Circle Job

Published at September 26, 2008 in HCA - Eighth Grade Literature, HCA - Harvest Christian Academy Parents, HCA - Literature Circle Job Forms and HCA - Seventh Grade Literature. 0 Comments

Questioner

Name

Date:

Group

Book

Assignment – Chapter _____ - Chapter _____

Questioner: Your job is to write down a five questions that you had about this selection. What were you wondering about while you were reading? Did you have questions about what was being described? What a word meant? Why the author used a certain style? How things fit together? What the whole thing meant? Just try to notice what questions popped into your mind while you read, and jot them down, either while you read or after you’re finished.

Questions I had about this reading: