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Common Core SL.9-10.1d literature circles
Group Discussion Outline - Classroom Discussion Strategy with Sentence Starters
This group discussion outline is applicable to the Harkness method, Socratic seminar, fishbowl discussion, and other classroom discussion strategies. It includes guidelines for qualitative and quantitative feedback and provides sentence starters, data tracking spreadsheets, and a rubric. Included with this Group Discussion Outline:✏️ 21 Question Prompts for Any Novel✏️ 40+ Sentence Stems for Classroom Discussions✏️ Assessment Guidelines for Group Discussions✏️ Data Tracking Template - Print,
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9th - 12th
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Literature Circles | Book Clubs | Student Led | Project-Based ELA
Literature circles and book clubs are an empowering way to keep up reading and discussion practices. Lit circles are a highly effective way to allow students to connect socially and intellectually and hold each other accountable. With this student-led unit, students will create their own reading calendar and pacing plan, prepare independently for weekly book clubs, schedule and run their own weekly meetings and assess their own work. The teaching philosophy incorporated here is “Student as Worke
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8th - 11th
Book Clubs & Lit Circles Made Easy with Google Docs! Updated for Online Learning
Now updated to include a remote, asynchronous online book club option due to COVID-19! Note: If you are moving to all-online learning due to the pandemic, I would suggest students choose public domain books that can be found for free online. Here is a great site to visit for public domain books! Want to infuse more student choice in your classroom? Need to facilitate deep literary analysis? Desperately need a better way to hit and assess those speaking and listening standards? Class book clubs (
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan (9-12): Literature Analysis Using Socratic Circles
Encourage your students’ active analytical efforts! Providing a framework for analytical creativity, Socratic Seminar nurtures deep thought through dialogue while encompassing many of the Common Core State Standards for reading, speaking, and listening. This strategy targets competence in analysis aligned with common core standards and expectations.To that end, this resource includes categories with model questions to assist students in their development of pertinent inquiries written to includ
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9th - 12th
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VIRTUAL LITERATURE CIRCLES Digital Book Clubs Digital Literature Circle Notebook
Facilitate Digital Book Clubs using this Virtual Literature Circle bundle! This folder for Google Drive® includes literature circle roles, peer-evaluation forms, participation rubrics, virtual discussion outlines, and a digital notebook for students to organize their work for each of their literature circle meetings.This folder includes all of the digital handouts needed to set up independent literature circles with your students, including literature circle roles and an organizational task char
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7th - 10th
Group Discussion Questions, Sentence Starters for Academic Conversation
Student-friendly discussion starters for academic conversations will add depth and rigor to your next discussion activity, literature circle, Socratic seminar, or fishbowl conversation! A discussion starters menu of options and slideshow provides student choice as they engage in small group or whole class discussions of any fiction or nonfiction text(s) of your choosing. If you're looking for a way to grow academic conversation and discussion skills, this is the speaking and listening resource f
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5th - 8th
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Holocaust Literature Circles Unit Bundle
Get all my Holocaust Literature materials and save! This product includes all the materials you need for a powerful student centered learning experience. The Holocaust Literature Bundle is a collection of my favorite resources for teaching students about the atrocities of the Nazi Holocaust through fiction. Kick of you unit with a Book Tasting, then use student's selections to organize them into Literature Circles. Included: Printable Materials to transform your classroom into a literary dining
Grades:
7th - 10th
Survival Literature Circle and Inquiry Unit - Complete Printable Workbook
Are you interested in trying thematic literature circles? This printable workbook includes everything you'll need for a lit circles on the theme of survival. My high school students LOVED this theme, and it was especially a hit with the boys!
I've used the following books, (but this unit will work with ANY survival books!)
• Lord of the Flies
• City of Thieves
• Between Shades of Grey
• Hunger Games
• Maze Runner
• Hunter in the Dark
• Kite Runner
• The Martian
• The Road
• Into the Wild
• In
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8th - 12th
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The Fall of the House of Usher Socratic Seminar
This resource features lesson plans and materials to conduct a formal set of Socratic Seminars for Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale of a very "close" family and a haunted house, The Fall of the House of Usher. Socratic Seminars (or "Fish Bowl" Conversations as referred to in this resource) are higher order ways of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class texts. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning a
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9th - 12th
Also included in: The Fall of the House of Usher Activity Bundle
ELA Discussion Sentence Starter Frames/Question Stems Resource
This resource is a great handout to provide to students to help them facilitate small group discussions, or even to use for whole-class discussions! It's also a great support for students who are reluctant to engage in conversation, who struggle to get the ball rolling, or have difficultly maintaining the momentum of academic discourse.This handout provides sentence starters and question stems organized by different stages of discourse: Entering the Conversation, Paraphrasing, Supporting Ideas,
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6th - 12th
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Macbeth Socratic Seminar
This resource features lesson plans and materials to conduct a formal set of Socratic Seminars for Shakespeare's famed tragedy, Macbeth. Socratic Seminars (or "Fish Bowl" Conversations as referred to in this resource) are higher order ways of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class texts. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning and discussion. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparatio
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9th - 12th
Real Women Have Curves: Literary Analysis Lesson Plan
Introducing the Literary Analysis - Play/Drama Series: Empowering In-Depth Text Exploration!Are you an English Language Arts or English Literature teacher searching for a comprehensive and engaging tool to improve your students' literary analysis skills? Look no further! The Literary Analysis - Play/Drama series is a meticulously crafted collection of educational materials that will guide your students through rigorous examinations of texts from diverse genres around the world.What's IncludedL
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Just Mercy Literature Circle Notebook
This digital student notebook compliments the novel Just Mercy (YA Adaptation) by Bryan Stevenson. This novel is available on Actively Learn if your school has a subscription. The Literature Circle Notebook was created to support students as they read and analyze the text. Each meeting has students reading two chapters of the novel. Students have different role for each meeting, and a slide to take notes on. This notebook is designed to facilitate Literature Circle Meetings with groups of 6-7 ki
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9th
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Socratic Seminar Discussion Toolkit for Secondary ELA - FULLY EDITABLE IN GOOGLE
ALL instructional materials in this Socratic Seminar Discussion Toolkit are COMPLETELY editable!This resource is perfect for middle or high school secondary ELA teachers who are looking to introduce socratic seminar to their class, engage their students in high-level discussion, or extend their students understanding and thinking on a text! The Socratic Seminar Toolkit will challenge students to be critical, high level thinkers. This resource provides easy-to-follow instructions for before the S
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7th - 10th
Literature Circles Meeting Prep Sheets - Discussion Questions for ANY Novel
Do you want to foster authentic, student led literature discussions? Are you looking for a student centered alternative to literature circles roles? These Literature Circles Discussion Prep Sheets provide guidance and accountability for student led book club meetings!Use these literature discussion sheets prompt students to think and respond critically to the text as they read. Then, students will discuss their responses in small group book clubs, literature circles, or as a whole class. The dis
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Book Club Discussion Activity BUNDLE
Romance Genre Literature Circles or Choice Reading Unit
Looking to guide your students through small group literature circles or choice reading in the romance genre? I've got you covered!This full genre-based literature circles unit will help your students explore the romance genre with unique and engaging activities. Your students will first be introduced to the basics of the genre, choose books, complete a scaffolded genre-based discussion, and then demonstrate their learning with a creative culminating project!With this flexible mini-unit, you can
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Feed by M.T. Anderson Literature Circle Activities (Printable)
Facilitate active participation in small-group discussions of science fiction literature with this set of literature circle materials for teaching Feed by M.T. Anderson. The following are included: a handout detailing student roles, documentation logs to hold students accountable for their tasks, and a standards-based rubric for scoring student performances. Materials are delivered in both Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.)By engaging in these lit
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9th - 12th, Staff
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The Death of Vivek Oji: Literary Analysis Lesson Plan
Introducing the Literary Analysis - Fiction Series: Empowering In-Depth Text Exploration!Are you an English Language Arts or English Literature teacher searching for a comprehensive and engaging tool to improve your students' literary analysis skills? Look no further! The Literary Analysis - Fiction series is a meticulously crafted collection of educational materials that will guide your students through rigorous examinations of texts from diverse genres around the world.What's IncludedLea
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Literary Analysis Lesson Plan
Introducing the Literary Analysis - Fiction Series: Empowering In-Depth Text Exploration!Are you an English Language Arts or English Literature teacher searching for a comprehensive and engaging tool to improve your students' literary analysis skills? Look no further! The Literary Analysis - Fiction series is a meticulously crafted collection of educational materials that will guide your students through rigorous examinations of texts from diverse genres around the world.What's Included Section
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9th - 12th
Book Club Discussion Activity BUNDLE
Do your students need a little guidance when discussing their novel in literature circles? Foster meaningful, student led discussions with three of my best selling literature circles activities!In this bundle, you will receive:✔ 35 Disucssion Task Cards for Literature Circles - These task cards offer 35 creative, critical thinking questions to prompt engaging, in depth discussion around literature circle or choice reading novels. Each card has one prompting question that addresses the novel's ch
Grades:
7th - 10th
35 Discussion Task Cards for Literature Circles
Spark engaging conversations with Literature Circle Discussion Task Cards!Are your students struggling to keep conversation going during book club meetings? Do they love their novels, but don't know how to engage in discussion? These task cards offer 35 creative, critical thinking questions to prompt engaging, in depth discussion around literature circle or choice reading novels. Each card has one prompting question that addresses the novel's character, theme, setting, mood, and plot. Simply cut
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Book Club Discussion Activity BUNDLE
Girl: Literary Analysis Lesson Plan
Introducing the Literary Analysis - Fiction Series: Empowering In-Depth Text Exploration!Are you an English Language Arts or English Literature teacher searching for a comprehensive and engaging tool to improve your students' literary analysis skills? Look no further! The Literary Analysis - Fiction series is a meticulously crafted collection of educational materials that will guide your students through rigorous examinations of texts from diverse genres around the world.What's Included Sectio
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Hate U Give: Literary Analysis Lesson Plan
Introducing the Literary Analysis Series: Empowering In-Depth Text Exploration!Are you an English Language Arts teacher in search of a comprehensive and engaging tool to enhance your students' literary analysis skills? Look no further! The Literary Analysis - Novel series is a meticulously crafted collection of educational materials that will guide your students through rigorous examinations of texts from diverse writers around the world.What's Included:Section 1 - The Facts: Who, What, When, Wh
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Book Club/Literature Circle Resource Packet
Looking for Book Club/Literature Circle resources? This packets contains what you would need to get started with Book Clubs asap. Resources include:Group ContractGroup CalendarDaily Group Reflection Sheet 4 Different Literature Circle/Book Club Role Sheets for StudentsRubric for Grading Individual Student ParticipationFinal Assessment Choice Board with RubricIndividual Student Reflection Cheat Sheet for Improving Conversations
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9th - 12th
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