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Summary & Setting Specialist
PLOT: Provide a summary of the reading selection.
Include the necessary details of importance.
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Summary & Setting Specialist
SETTING: Describe the setting of
the selection. Consider shifts in
time, place and mood. Include
specific details to paint the
picture.
CHARACTERS: List and describe the
major characters or real people
from the reading. Include physical
descriptions and personality traits.
Track changes or important
developments for characters.
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Imagery Illuminator: Figurative Language Finder
Locate and explain three examples of figurative language in the reading (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc).
Explain why you selected the passage and its importance to the text. Include a proper MLA citation.
Example #1: Why did you choose this example?
Significance:
Citation:
Example #2: Why did you choose this example?
Significance:
Citation:
Example #3: Why did you choose this example?
Significance:
Citation:
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Imagery Illuminator: Illustration
Choose a scene or setting from the reading selection and create a visual representation of it.
Draw, paint, collage or photography. So long as it reflects effort and is original, you choose!
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Discussion Director
Prepare questions to help facilitate discussion during your book club meeting. The best questions
will come from your own thoughts, feelings, and ideas about this section of the book.
Sample Questions:
1. What kinds of conflicts are the characters facing?
2. What do you think about the way the author __________________________________?
3. What if ______________________________________ had happened instead?
4. What would you have done had you been in this character’s shoes?
5. What did you think about this event? What do you think will happen next?
Questions for discussion:
Notes & new discoveries:
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Discussion Director: Meeting Reflection
Reflect on your book club meeting for this selected section of reading.
What worked? What didn't? What should you work for in the future?
Interesting point made: Support provided: My thoughts and response:
Challenges: Goals:
Speaking:
Listening:
Understanding:
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Diction Detective: Locating Language
Choose at least three words or phrases from the reading with which you were unfamiliar.
Aim to select words that will likely be useful vocabulary and/or help your peers better understand the text.
Create an MLA citation for each, define them, and unpack the significance.
Word/phrase: Definition:
Significance:
Citation:
Word/phrase: Definition:
Significance:
Citation:
Word/phrase: Definition:
Significance:
Citation:
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Diction Detective: Preferred Passages
Locate your three favorite passages from the reading.
Create an MLA citation for each, explain why you selected it, and unpack the significance.
Be sure to be specific and include all necessary details for your analysis.
Passage: Reason for choosing this passage:
Significance:
Citation:
Passage: Reason for choosing this passage:
Significance:
Citation:
Passage: Reason for choosing this passage:
Citation: Significance:
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Bridge Builder: Background
Complete the following chart in order to provide context for your reading selection. Feel free
to provide whatever facts you choose, but aim to provide information that will support you and
your peers in better understanding the text.
Information:
Title
Author
Date of Publication
Historical Context:
Events, movements, fads or
other influences occurring
at the time of production
Geographical Context:
Where does the reading
occur? Where was it written?
What is significant about
these places?
Cultural Context:
What is the reading selection’s
relationship within the culture
it depicts or those who would
read it?
Author:
List 3-5 facts about the
author to help relate the
reading to his/her life.
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Bridge Builder: Creating Connections
From the reading selection, choose at least three events that relate to the reader and connect
them to another text, the world or yourself. What is the significance of these events on the world
and the reader? Be specific, avoid being vague and provide concrete details.
Event from book: Connection made: Connection made:
Event from book: Connection made: Connection made:
Event from book: Connection made: Connection made: