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May 29, 2017

Final Literature Circle Day!

FINAL LITERATURE CIRCLE

You are reading a text by a Canadian. We are thinking about the over-arching question “What does being a great Canadian look like? For this week’s conversation on your book/play, I want you to think about the connection or intersection between your characters and the idea of being a great Canadian.

Everyone in the group prepares individually by considering the following quote:

“To be Canadian is to always be searching for meaning, place, purpose, in our own country, in the world. I think all humans do this. The details in our writing are not only what make us relate to each other, but what place us in time and sensibility. Ultimately, we write about the human experience, not just the Canadian one. But that Canadian experience, because of our origins and changing culture and constant questions of identity, and our observations of daily life as well as our ability to imagine outside our boundaries, defies being boxed by its very definition.” from Bella’s Bookshelves

Choose two of the following questions to answer in the chart below. Use your text. Cite page references of the text that will support your thinking.

  1. Do you agree with the above quote? Why or Why not?
  2. Do you consider your text to be Canadian literature? Why or Why not?
  3. Does a novel/play/text have to be set in Canada to be considered Canadian?
  4. How did your novel/play/text  represent Canada at the time it was written? How does it represent Canada today?
  5. How might the lives of the characters in a story change if the story were set in a different part of the country, or a country other than Canada?
  6. What influence did geography have on the character’s development?
  7. What character traits does your protagonist have that make him/her a great Canadian?
  8. Who is represented in your novel? Which voices are privileged and which are silenced?

Literature Circle Assessment.

BUILD

Last class to work on build. It’s due on Friday.

May 24, 2017

The Build

Learning Goal
I am learning to
Select an appropriate media text to communicate my ideas;
Produce a media text for a specific audience and purpose;
Create a plan to act on my self-assessment of my media creation skills.

Guest hangout question document

Literature Circle work:

  • Read and track your thinking (journal, post-it notes), if you haven’t finished your book
  • Work on your Character and/or Theme digital worksheet in preparation for Monday’s last literature circle.

Review Media Text Rubric. Use this to guide your work.

What do you need to do next?

  • Minecraft or other build planning
  • Minecraft or other build
  • Showcase your build (See examples here)
  • You will reflect on the process (make this public) at the end of the project

#CDNcraft Build/Creation Planning Requirement

For this project, you MUST include planning. Your planning will look different, depending on what you build or create. Be prepared to show me your ideas and planning. How much time you need to complete your build, what materials you need, and what it will look like when it’s done.

Some PLANNING examples include:

April 11, 2017

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Learning Goal:
I will make interpretations from reading, ask critical questions, uncover perspectives, and engage in conversations to form conclusions.
I will use evidence to support my ideas.

Move into Lit Circle groups
Discussion directors can start with Qs, make sure that everyone has a chance to answer and ask the questions they have prepared
Discussion 15 min

Go back to home groups and complete the  Discussion Self-evaluation.

Now, we need to write about our thinking. But first, let’s look at a model and conduct a peer review on it.

Table 1 and 3: The portrayal of women in “Not Wanted on the Voyage”

Table 2 and 4: different narrators perspective on three day road

Read the post. And then using the Peer Editing Sheet to guide you leave comments on the post pointing out the parts of the post that are done well and the parts that could be improved.

Then choose a prompt and write your own literature circle post. I suggest you write it in Google docs and then paste it into our Goodreads forum. 

Literature Circle Prompts