Book+Club+Reflection

=Put a Short Activity/Lesson/Project Title Here=

Please identify opportunities for differentiation. ||
 * **Title**: ||< 19th century novel Book Club ||
 * **Subject**: ||< Language Arts ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 12 ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< 5 weeks ||
 * **Summary:** ||< Write a SHORT summary of the activity/project/lesson here ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< 1) Describe the main steps of the activity/lesson/project here
 * Be sure to highlight opportunities for students to practice/employ an "early adopter" or lifelong learning skill ||
 * Objectives: ||< * What TEKS or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet? ||
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Resources: ||< A copy of //Crime and Punishment//, //Jane Eyre//, or //Great Expectations// along with //How to Read Literature Like a Professor//. Also, the students need access to internet to post on Edmodo or Google docs. ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || The book club assignments and discussions were very thought-provoking and useful both for the end-of-novel essay the kids wrote and the upcoming literary criticism paper. The students responded to another student's response by disagreeing or agreeing with it and then adding more text evidence. I had one group go back and forth, responding to each other's responses of their first response, so it was a provocative exchange that was interesting to witness. The conversation was at a higher level than I expected, and the kids seemed very engaged. During the book club meetings (the kids would come to book club with their answers to questions and response to response already posted on Edmodo or Google Docs), the kids would discuss the week's reading in the 19th century novel and also create higher-level questions together to post. For the next week, students chose a question posted during book club to answer about their novel, respond to someone else's response, and answer two more questions out of five that I gave them based on archetypes and common character traits that could be applied to all three novels. ||
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