This document outlines literature circle groups and roles for students reading Bless Me, Ultima. It divides the class into 5 groups and assigns each student in each group one of five roles: discussion direction, connection maker, summarizer, word wizard, or passage picker. It provides details on the responsibilities for each role and instructions for students to complete their assigned roles as homework by finding questions, connections, summaries, words, or passages from the assigned reading.

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2. LITERATURE CIRCLE GROUPS (PERIOD 1)
 Group 1
 Elena
 Riley
 Evan
 Charity
 Javier
 Group 2
 Nathan
 Alex
 Kayla
 Laurel
 Josh
 Group 3
 Felix
 Justin
 Dorothy
 Dylan
 Peter Z
 Group 4
 Chase
 Irais
 Dianna
 Kyle
 Tika
 Group 5
 Peter N.
 Ashley
 Than
 Tori
 Tyler

3. LITERATURE CIRCLES: ROLES
 Each member of your group is responsible for one of
the following:
 Discussion Direction - writes questions to guide
thoughtful group discussion and keeps group on task
 Connection Maker - writes own and group members'
connections (Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World)
 Summarizer - writes a Beginning-Middle-End summary,
revises with group input and creates book final summary
 Word Wizard - searches for unusual word choice or
description or defines words the group may not know
 Passage Picker - selects and rereads important
passages or descriptive imagery sections to the group
and discusses author's style.

4. LITERATURE CIRCLES!
 Start a new page in your journal titled The HotS LC 1
 Assign each member of your group one of the five
literature circle roles. Each member has to have a
different role.
 Begin reading p59. Each member of the group will
read 1-2 paragraphs, depending on the size of the
paragraph.
 After 3 pages, stop to work/take notes for your literature
circle roles.
 After each member has at least one thing written down,
share and discuss with your group what you wrote,
including WHY you chose a particular
word/event/passage/discussion question/connection.
Your group members DO NOT have to write down what
you wrote down.
 Continue this process for every 3 pages.

5. HOMEWORK
 READING: Finish C5 and C6 of Bless Me,
Ultima
 LIT CIRCLE: Complete your lit circle role for
the reading homework (see next slide)

6. LIT CIRCLE HOMEWORK
 Discussion Direction - writes questions to guide thoughtful
group discussion and keeps group on task
 (at least 4 questions with the quote and page number that
inspired that question)
 Connection Maker - writes own and group members'
connections (Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World;
 at least 5 connections with the quote and page number that
inspired that connection )
 Summarizer - writes the chapter summary
 (at least a 5-sentence paragraph)
 Word Wizard - searches for unusual word choice or description
or defines words the group may not know
 (at least 5 words with definitions and quote/page number from
book)
 Passage Picker - selects and rereads important passages or
descriptive imagery sections to the group and discusses author's
style.
 (at least 3 passages with page numbers and a sentence for each