Victorian+Book+Club+Take+2

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The next project after the book club is a literary criticism assignment about their chosen novel, so I can attach a link to Diigo with articles and sources about their novel. || Please identify opportunities for differentiation. I hope that being able to choose from three novels is somewhat of an opportunity to differentiate, and so will raising questions that students have while reading and commenting on their peers' perspectives. ||
 * **Title**: ||< Victorian Book Club Take 2 ||
 * **Subject**: ||< English IV AP ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 12th ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< 3-4 weeks ||
 * **Summary:** ||< This is a continuation of the book club wiki I started last year. Students have a choice of three novels to read and meet in groups of four once a week to discuss the novel once they decide how to divide up the readings for the 3-4 week duration. In conjunction with the novel of their choice, students will also read from the literary criticism guide, //How to Read Literature Like a Professor.// Prior to book club meetings, students will read a selection from //How to Read// and be assigned two or three questions to answer about their novel regarding some of the ideas from the guide. They will answer their questions and provide text evidence on their own wiki page. During the meetings, students will also create higher-level questions about their novels and post those on their wiki page. After their meetings, students will reflect on their wiki page about how their meetings went, and choose another group's question, which was created during the meeting, to answer. They can even critique or evaluate the question posed. Having everything on the wiki will allow other groups to read each other's responses to gain a different critical perspective, hopefully.
 * **Tasks**: ||< 1) Describe the main steps of the activity/lesson/project here
 * Choose one of the Victorian novels to read after hearing a brief summary of each.
 * Form book club groups of four members reading the same novel and create an original name.
 * Sign up for wikispaces to begin responding on individual wiki pages.
 * In groups decide how to divide the readings over the course of 3-4 weeks.
 * Read novel and //How to Read Literature// guide, annotating both.
 * Prior to meeting with book club, students will receive a choice of questions to answer. The questions tie their novel in with the concepts proposed in the guide (archetypes).
 * Students will discuss their readings and any questions that arise during their readings. They will also rise new questions about the text that are more evaluative/analysis than recall.
 * Students will reflect on their meetings and post new questions on their wiki page.
 * Students will also read others' responses and questions about the same novel and choose someone else's question to answer. They may also evaluate another student's question and responses.
 * Objectives: ||< * What TEKS or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet?
 * Students are close reading and analyzing text using critical theory.
 * Students are writing original responses and creating more questions.
 * Students are collaborating with one another by responding to each other's questions. ||
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning? I'll read and comment on how the students respond to the questions on their wiki pages and listen to their book club conversations. After the book club meets, I'll evaluate the level of questions they pose and how they respond to each other. I think I'll assign points (50%) for the questions they answer prior to book club and 50% for the questions they pose and how they respond to other's questions.
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning? I'll read and comment on how the students respond to the questions on their wiki pages and listen to their book club conversations. After the book club meets, I'll evaluate the level of questions they pose and how they respond to each other. I think I'll assign points (50%) for the questions they answer prior to book club and 50% for the questions they pose and how they respond to other's questions.
 * Resources: ||< * What resources will be needed? Victorian novel of choice (//Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, or Crime and Punishment//) and a copy of //How to Read Literature like a Professor//. They'll also need to be able to access and edit their wiki page. ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || After learning about SAMR, I realize that my first attempt with the wiki book club last year is that it really was a substitute to having students write response on paper, except that they were able to view what other students were thinking on their wiki pages. I don't think this was a negative because it was our first exposure to working with a wiki, but I am planning to have the students collaborate and share ideas more this year through the wiki by having groups create their own questions about their reading during their meetings, and then they have to evaluate other students' questions and answer at least one that their group did not create. ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||

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