Book Club - Meeting this Friday! Keep up the amazing reading!

I am so amazed at your incredible reading - you can't keep your head out of the books - and we are so pleased with your progress.  We will be meeting this week for your first Book Club!   Here is what is expected:

Reading up a storm! 

Keep up the amazing reading!!!

Task:

As a group students will choose a novel to read and analyze. Three class meetings will be held to discuss their readings.

Prior to each meeting:

• Students are expected to prepare point form notes to answer the assigned questions based on their reading.
• Each student is to create her own 2 questions for discussion, with her answers. (Share with me on Google Drive) 

•  Avoid literal/factual knowledge based questions that involve remembering without understanding, analysis, or evaluation.

Meeting #1 - ___:

1. What scene is the most impactful? Why?
2. Find a quote online (or from a text) that relates to the novel.   What connections can you make between the quote and the novel.
3. Which character is the most interesting? Why?
4. How much does the setting impact the novel?  If you were to live during this time period and place, what is one thing you would like to do or experience?
5. Using the Q-Chart as your guide to higher level thinking questions, create 2 questions for your group. Prepare your answers, but share them only after each member has had a chance to answer the question.

Reading Strategy:  Questioning!   We have been learning about the importance of questioning.  Effective readers ask questions all the time when they are reading.  Asking questions helps you to understand what is happening in the text.
In class, we have been using a “Q Chart”.   This is a grid containing various question starters.   By using these question starters, we have identified which types of questions would be hand-type questions (a question that you can find the answer to right on a page in the text) or a higher level thinking question, or a brain-type of question.  These types of questions require a reader to use information that they find in the text AND their own ideas to develop an effective answer.
Below is a copy of the Q chart.    When you are reading, what are some questions that you can develop about your book?