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Literature Circles will discuss: Wolk Text Levstik & Barton- Ch. 1-3 Literature Circle Formation Form 5 groups of 4 Discuss chapters Rotate through each role Provide evidence to instructor that you have engaged in deep professional dialogue around readings. Directions and Roles for Discussion Role One: Passage Master Locate a few special sections of each chapter that the group should discuss. The idea is to help people notice the interesting, puzzling, or important parts of the text.  Identify the location of the passage and your reason for picking it. -The special sections I found are...These are my reasons for selecting them...   Role Two: Discussion Director Develop a few questions that your group might discuss about the reading.  Don't worry about small details; your task is to raise big ideas in the reading and clarify the text.  You are the discussion monitor.  In addition to their roles, group members will also bring things they have questions about or don‚Äôt understand in the reading.  You need to make sure those questions get asked and addressed-whether part of their role or at the end of the discussion. -Possible discussion questions or topics for today include...   Role Three: Discussion Reporter At the end of the on-line discussion, you are responsible for writing an open ended test question and summarizing the key ideas discussed on-line by posting to the WEB CT Literature Circle Summary.   -Our group focused on the following ideas in our discussion...   Role Four: Connector Your job is to find connections between the material your group is reading and the world outside. This means connecting the reading to your own life, to happenings at school or in the community, to other learning you have, to other knowledge you have, or within the reading itself.  There are no right or wrong answers here- whatever connections you see are worth sharing.   -Some connections I found between this reading and other people, places, events, authors include...