Day 2 of literature circles was a continuation of roles and discussion from yesterday. Yesterday students were able to complete their role but we did not have enough class time before the end of the day to share, discuss, and report findings to their teams.
Today, we met with our groups with the same roles, completed recording sheets and began reporting roles to the group. We are currently operating four literature circle groups: The FBI Juniors, Dixie Detectives, Mystery Readers, and Team Undercover. The FBI Juniors and Team Undercover were the most successful and engaged in the task of discussion about the book. Team Undercover in particular with some facilitation from me were able to conduct a successful circle in which they discussed interesting words, great quotes from the chapters, and sketched important scenes. The FBI Juniors were doing a great job finishing up their roles and being considerate of one of their group mates that left early the day prior and still needed to do his job to contribute to the circle discussion. The Mystery Readers and Dixie Detectives had some difficulty today. The Dixie Detectives spent a lot of time disagreeing which prevented them from having time to begin reporting to their teams. The Mystery Readers had three group members being extremely off task. We had several students to leave early on the day prior and so these groups had to wait for two or more of their members to do their jobs. This makes me wonder how I do I better involve students when they are absent to prevent the rest of the group from being off task? Should they miss circle? Or participate as spectators instead of holding up the progress of the rest of the group?
Tomorrow we will start fresh with chapters 8 and 9 of Because of Winn Dixie, and we will meet first thing. Hopefully, as students get more familiar we will see less disagreements and more productive discussion of literature in the other two groups.
Today, we met with our groups with the same roles, completed recording sheets and began reporting roles to the group. We are currently operating four literature circle groups: The FBI Juniors, Dixie Detectives, Mystery Readers, and Team Undercover. The FBI Juniors and Team Undercover were the most successful and engaged in the task of discussion about the book. Team Undercover in particular with some facilitation from me were able to conduct a successful circle in which they discussed interesting words, great quotes from the chapters, and sketched important scenes. The FBI Juniors were doing a great job finishing up their roles and being considerate of one of their group mates that left early the day prior and still needed to do his job to contribute to the circle discussion. The Mystery Readers and Dixie Detectives had some difficulty today. The Dixie Detectives spent a lot of time disagreeing which prevented them from having time to begin reporting to their teams. The Mystery Readers had three group members being extremely off task. We had several students to leave early on the day prior and so these groups had to wait for two or more of their members to do their jobs. This makes me wonder how I do I better involve students when they are absent to prevent the rest of the group from being off task? Should they miss circle? Or participate as spectators instead of holding up the progress of the rest of the group?
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Tomorrow we will start fresh with chapters 8 and 9 of Because of Winn Dixie, and we will meet first thing. Hopefully, as students get more familiar we will see less disagreements and more productive discussion of literature in the other two groups.
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