Literature Circles

everyone. Today, we're gonna talk about literature, circles and how

they work.

And then we're gonna get started, actually working in letters

your circles on a play called The Crucible, which is

by a guy named Arthur Miller.

Um, so first I'd like to talk to you about

literature circles just in general, so that you know what's

expected of you and why we're doing, uh, readings in

this way.

So just a quick overview of how literature circles work.

I have instructions.

Were you in teams as well?

If you want to go ahead and follow along, I'm

going to be going through some instructions.

But basically, how literature circles work is that, uh, each

week we read a section of the text and you

work in a group and have a different role for

each different section of the text that needed for the

last one.

So some weeks you're gonna be focused on character and

plot. Some weeks, you're focused on vocabulary.

Some weeks will be focused on coming up with discussion

questions. Some weeks you'll be focused on passages you just

think are interesting and why you think those passengers are

interesting, but you'll have different work for each week, and

each week our roles shift, so you'll be working in

groups of, like, four people and those groups of four

people each week.

People have different roles they're working on, and then you

get together at the end of the week and you

discuss the whole thing.

Eso that.

Everybody's kind of looking at a different aspect of the

text each week, and you can have, hopefully a really

good discussion about it because of that.

So let's get into some specific instructions here.

So this is again in teams.

If you want to go ahead and open it up,

it is.

If you look in the section that's for the Crucible

in teams in the Class Materials folder, you're gonna be

able to find it there.

So this is your basic directions for literature circles for

the Crucible.

So as you read The Crucible, you're gonna take one

of the roles for each of the four acts.

So there's four acts in total for the Crucible, and

you're gonna have a different role for each act.

Just so you know, you cannot repeat the same role

twice. You can't just say I'm going to be vocabulary

for the entire play.

That's not an option.

You have to have each of the four rolls eventually,

and so you cannot repeat the same role twice.

Also, you are going to be working in groups of

four, and each person in the group must have a

different role for each of the different parts.

So for each of the AKs, you need to have

a different role from everybody else in your group.

And again, you're not gonna repeat the same role twice.

So please keep that in mind.

Um, so in other words, for, like, act one, you

only have one discussion director, one vocabulary and richer one

character and plot summarize er and one literary luminary.

And then you're going to switch roles on we get

active. So one other thing is that you will be

given a sheet to fill in.

That shows that you actually did focus on that part

of the text on, and you should feel in that

sheet in its entirety.

So when it says on the sheet, you need to

come up with five examples.

I'm expecting to see five examples, and I'm expecting to

see every box Phil then Ah, for vocabulary.

I think you have to come up with, like, 15

vocabulary words.

I expect to see all 15 boxes filled it.

It's not gonna loosen points.

You're gonna get an incomplete.

So please make sure you're feeling in each section in

its entirety.

On each week you're gonna submit the entire PDF or

word document of that those roll sheets to turn it

in At first, during the first week, you're only gonna

have one of the roles filled in the rest of

it's gonna be blank.

That's okay.

You're gonna just a minute to turn it in.

And I should see you filling it in just progressively

as we go through the entire play.

So when we get to act to, you're gonna have

to of the rolls filled in when you turn it

out. When you get to, actually, you're gonna have three

of the rolls filled in.

And when we get sacked for you're gonna have all

four rolls filled in and everything will be in the

same place, so that'll be really nifty to be able

to set it off.

So please make sure you're feeling in the same document

through the entire play again.

Some of it will be blank when you first turn

it in.

That's OK, but you should feel in the same document.

So don't upload a new document.

Each act.

Please do not do that.

Make sure you're feeling it all in on the same

one. So because the assignments will be submitted to the

Internet and it doesn't have to be typed, it must

be typed.

So please make sure you are actually typing it.

If you hand right, let's circle work.

You're gonna receive a zero on it for the week.

If you just do like a screenshot of your work,

you're going to get a zero on it for the

week. It needs to be typed in the documents, so

please make sure you do it each week.

You're gonna get a 10 point homework grade for submitting

your work and participating in the discussion day, which we'll

talk about it a little bit.

The 10 point grade is based on the thought you

put into the work and your willingness to participate in

the group's discussion.

Um, especially the online portion of that on just your

in class work on the work days So it's all

based on that, um so typically will have one day

every week that set aside for a discussion day.

Then you will have, you know, like two or three

days that you will be working in class on the

actual taxing on your actual role, so we'll have plenty

of time working class, and then we have one day

that's just set aside for a discussion day.

So all that's on your calendar, which is also available

in the Crucible Holder there on on teams, so you'll

be able to find it there.

So let's talk about the four rolls and what you

will be doing for each of the rules.

So for roles you'll have, there are character and plot

summarize, er, vocabulary and richer literary luminary and discussion director.

And I'm gonna go over all of the instructions for

each of the individual rules here, coming up in the

next slides.

So all of us again is available for you see

on teams.

It is all in the same document that is, I

believe, just called Crucible.

Let's circle directions so you'll be able to open it

up there and see all the instructions there so character

and plot summarize.

Er is our first rule I'd like to talk about,

so it is a deceptively simple role.

It is a symbol role.

It's not.

It's not difficult to do, but it is time consuming.

So don't take the role.

If you're thinking you could just do it quickly because

you can't easy.

But it's time to.

So just know that for this role you are summarizing

the plot of this section that we're reading.

So if you're the if you have this role for

the 1st 1 is gonna be act one that you're

gonna be summarizing the entirety of.

So all of act one hell summarize in no less

than 12 sentences.

So I expect at least 12 sentences in your own

words. You were going to be telling the group what

happened in the section.

You are also This is also part of your role.

Okay, you are also going to share traits you find

in three characters, either new characters or old characters, and

decided quote from the text that proves that the character

has that trait.

So you're not only summarizing the section, but you're choosing

three characters, okay?

And you are telling me something that you found out

about them in that section again, it could be new

characters that were introduced working the old characters.

It's totally fine.

So both of those are your roles.

Character and plot.

Summarize er, all go together.

You are not doing like two separate roles there.

Um, if you're you know, the plot person, there's not

a separate character person that is all your role.

I'm emphasizing that because people get really confused about that

character and plot.

Same role.

Okay, same role.

So make sure you're doing all of that so that

you get full credit for that section, so you should

make sure you cite every single thing that you are

quoting. So in the section that asked you to with

trades for characters and you have to come up with

a cited quote.

Make sure you cite that quote, and there's an example

for how to do that in the instruction.

So if you don't know how, decide the boat, just

go back to the instructions and there's an example there.

But please make sure everything is cited if you are

quoting the material, so that is plot and character summarize.

Er, um, I guess it is a deceptively simple role.

It is actually kind of difficult to do if you're

doing it right.

So I would say you're going to be doing this

role eventually.

But don't just like jump to it is the 1st

1 you do because you think it's gonna be really

easy, because it's not that easy, actually, um, so the

next time I want talked about his vocabulary and richer,

it is also deceptively simple.

It is time consuming, but it's not particularly difficult.

So what you're doing for vocabulary and Richard, you're choosing

15 vocabulary words for your group to learn and discuss.

So when your vocabulary and Richard you're gonna record the

word itself the definition of the word, which you could

just get from Google, just look it up online.

It's fine.

And then the quote where it's found in the text,

you have to record the whole quote.

You can't just do like a couple words dot, dot

dot and a couple other words has to be old

boat, and you also have to put the vocabulary word

and bold within the quote.

And then, at the end of the quote.

I need an in text citation that shows where you

got it.

So again, there's an example of that here.

So along with that, you're going to be giving me

the reason for choosing that quote or that word, actually,

and the reason can be a simple as I didn't

know what the word meant.

Work could be as complex is I think the word

is being used to symbolize something, right.

I think this word is significant because it's been repeated

a bunch of times and say Why?

You think it's if again, it can just be this?

You don't know the word That's totally okay for every

single one of them.

If there's a bunch of work you just don't know,

just say you don't know the work for each one.

Now, if you choose words that are obvious that you

do know, I'm gonna know that she just shows random

words. So don't do that.

Um, like I shouldn't see workhorse or something like that

on your vocabulary because, you know, don't say you don't

know that word.

I'm gonna know what I'm gonna know what you're doing.

So please make sure you are actually choosing words you

don't know you're coming with the definition of it.

You are showing me the quote where you found the

word. You give me an in text citation for that.

You're telling me the reason.

So I get easy role, but it can be kind

of time consuming, so just be aware of that.

Um to literally a luminary is our third role.

Uh, this one is, I think, fairly easy, as long

as you're paying attention to the text.

But for this role, you're choosing six passages.

Six passengers from the section do you think are interesting?

So the passage should be at least one sentence or

line of dialogue, but no more than five sentences or

lines of dialogue.

Give me the quote itself.

You're going to also cite the quote.

You have to record the whole thing.

You need to cite the quote within in text citation

again. There's instructions for how to do that here.

And then you're gonna tell me the reason for choosing

that quote.

So why did you think it was interesting?

And it can't just be.

I thought it was interesting because obviously you did.

That's why you put it on the literary luminary document.

But you got to give me a reason why you

thought it was interesting.

Is it something interesting about the character?

Is it something interesting about the way they've said it?

Just tell me what you think is interesting about it.

So, um, so that's all there really is for literary

luminary. You're just coming up with interesting things you see

in the text discussion Director is probably the most complicated

role on here, and it's not that complicated.

Actually, it's It's not too difficult.

Um, so in discussion Director, it's your job to write.

Five. Discuss herbal questions with textual evidence that shows where

the question came from.

Your also going to lead a discussion with your group

members on discussion days.

When you come up with these five questions, they have

to be ones that you conform.

An opinion on this shouldn't be quiz questions or questions

that could be easily answered just by reading the text.

You're not gonna get credit for those kinds of questions.

They're things like, If you were to ask who is

John Proctor's wife?

That's really obvious from the text itself, like you don't

have to come up with an opinion on that, there's

just one answer to it.

So if you have questions like that on your, um,

on your your sheet, I'm not gonna give you credit

for them because that's pretty obviously not something you conform

that then you know.

So they should also be based on details from the

text itself.

They need to prove to me that you were reading

and understanding and thinking about the text.

So if you give me a question like, What do

you think of the story so far?

That tells me nothing about what you got from the

text. It tells me that you probably aren't reading the

text because you're not willing to give me a question

that has a detail from the text in it.

Um, so don't do questions like that.

Don't do questions.

They're vague.

You need to have a detail from the text in

the question on.

And it shouldn't be like a vague detail, either.

It shouldn't be like How do you think Procter feels

right now?

Well, that just tells me that you know the name

of the character that doesn't tell me you read the

section, so make sure questions are telling me that she

read the section, make sure that's pretty obvious.

They also need to be discussed with the group now.

In order to do this, you are going to post

your questions in a single post on your discussion threat

for your group at turn it in dot com by

Sunday night at 11 59 PM So all your questions

should be posted in one like concise post on that

discussion thread so that everybody can answer them the next

day. So make sure that posted by Sunday night 11:59

p.m. And then for each question, you should also include

the full quote that sparked the question in an in

text citation for that book to on.

And that's just on your role sheet.

You don't have to post those to the discussion.

Thread just needs to be on your world sheet.

So So you should also site that quote to make

sure that you have that cited.

And then then you'll be all set to go for

the discussion director role.

So on discussion days it's gonna be your job to

share what you were able to come up with with

your group, you're also going to be answering the discussion

directors questions at turn it in dot com.

So you're going to go into that discussion thread and

actually replying to the Post there that the discussion director

did on Sunday nights, and you're gonna be answering those

questions now.

If your discussion director you don't have to do that

part of it, you don't have to actually answer your

own questions.

But if you're not discussion director, you should go onto

the threat eternity in dot com click reply.

Answer all of the discussion questions from your discussion director

there. Just know that the discussion directors questions might also

end up on the second page of the of the

thread. So you have to go to, like, the right

hand corner and there's little numbers there and you click

on him and it will show you the post that

air further along in the chap.

So, um, so that's what you're gonna do on discussion

days, though.

You're gonna be talking with your group about your work

during the week, and then you're also going to be

answering those discussion director questions and your answers.

The post with your answers to the discussion directors questions

is gonna be due by 11:59 p.m. On the discussion

day, and then we'll be moving the next day on

to the next section of the text.

So that's a quick overview of all of the different

roles you have the instructions that turn it in dot

com. You also have the actual rules, not turning in

the instructions that teams of you also have teams.

They're the actual role machines.

And then I also emailed that to you, too.

So it's all there for you in The Crucible folder

and also emailed to you today.

So we're gonna go ahead and get started, though working

with the Crucible and choosing your roles and, uh, hopefully

we have a great time, okay?

Literature Circles

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