Literature Circles: Week 2...

Students continued reading and discussing novels in literature circles this week. Monday and Wednesday were preparation days, meaning that students had time to read, work on any assigned journal responses, or update their character trait log and story map. Tuesday and Thursday were designated for discussion of the novel's events. Before each discussion day, one student from the literature circle volunteered to act as the director of the group. He or she created five "big questions" for the group to discuss and lead the group's discussion. I've really enjoyed getting to walk around the classroom while the literature circles are at work and observe the groups' discussions. The directors have been coming up with great questions to get their group to think more deeply about the text. Literature circles will conclude at the end of the week we return to school.

We had 30-minute classes on Friday due to a special Team 7-1 schedule, so students took the time to clean out unnecessary papers from their binders that they had collected over the course of Quarter 2.

Returned Assignments

There were no graded assignments returned this week.