• You will have three book group meetings focused on reading the book:

    Meeting One: July 16 - Have first three chapters of your book read - bring 5 questions about content.

    Meeting Two: July 23 -- Pages to be read:

    Meeting Three    : July 30 -- Pages to be read:

    Planning for your Litweb  for your Final Presentation to the Class

    You will work in your Book Groups to develop the details of your final plan for your litweb and your presentation to the class. Your goal is to make the class want to read the novel by giving an understanding of the plot (up to the climax), characters, setting, writer's background and style, theme of the novel (and perhaps other works that have that same theme -- was it like any of the stories we read?) and your critique as well as those of the critics. In addition you will be asked to connect the novel to other works we have read this quarter and to the ideas of community you have individually researched for the first research essay. Use the text in as many ways as you can in your presentation. To help the class better understand the novel you have read, you are to choose one chapter from the novel that you feel will give the class a good idea of the content, theme and writing style. Remember you want to encourage them to read it, but you do not want to give away the denouement or resolution of the conflict, so be wise in the chapter you choose.

    See timelines to help with planning for this complex task. Click here to read more about the research aspects.

     

    Research Info -- Presentations --  Litweb -- Book Choices

    Reading the book:

    You will meet with your book group members several times over the course of the rest of the quarter. You will have three meetings focused on reading and understanding the book during class time, and you should arrange meetings on preparing the final litweb and presentation during your own time, perhaps on Wednesday nights. One member of the group will act as leader for each of these meetings.

    As a leader you will prepare ten questions to discuss about the section of the book that you have read that week and keep the discussion going. At the first meeting of your group, you will divide your book into three sections and decide how much is to be read by each meeting. Keep a log of all the work you do on this project and what you as an individual contribute to the group each time.

    Book Groups:
    		O'Brien. The Things They Carried.
    Ozeki. My Year of Meats.
    Alvarez.  In the Time of Butterflies.
    Welch. Fools Crow.
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