Literature Circles

We started reading the novel Holes last week and students were given their literature circle folders and weekly tasks were assigned.  This will be in addition to our regular homework which will be handed out tomorrow.  They do however, have the opportunity to use their class time to complete the reading and weekly tasks.  Each day we read for about 20 minutes in the morning, this is a perfect opportunity to work on this task and each Thursday second block will be devoted to sharing their work from the week and working on the next week's assignment. In order for them to receive participation marks for this project, they must bring their completed weekly task to share with the group.  It will remain in the folder until the end of the six weeks.  At that time, I will be collecting the entire folder and marking the assignments included in the folder.  That way, if students miss a week, they will only lose a participation mark but they have the opportunity to complete the task and receive full marks for it.