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Lit Circle Home Literature Circle Roles Novel Outlines The Novels Self & Peer Assessment @Lit Circle Links || =Literature Circle Roles = ===Read through these job descriptions. For more information, click on the linked job title. It will take you to a GoogleDoc copy of the PDF form with questions that you'll need to answer for each reading assignment.===

**Discussion Director:** Your job is to keep the discussion going, to make sure there are not silences, not gaps in the conversation. You should come to the meeting with at least five "thinking" questions for your group to discuss. These "thinking" questions should be designed to get people in your group thinking about issues and topics in your reading. They should not be "recall" questions that ask for facts from the book. You are also in charge of keeping the discussion focused so that things don't wander too far from the main topic, which is the book. Usually the best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read, which you can list below, during or after your reading. Example Page


 * Summarizer: ** Your job is to write and then present a summary of the events that happened in today's assigned reading. Using your written summary as your guide, you will remind people in your group what this section was about. In addition to writing and presenting your summary, you will need to bring a thinking question to the group, a question that prompts the others to think beyond the facts of the passage. You should begin the session with a one or two minute statement that conveys the main highlights of today's reading assignment. Example Page

**Vocabulary Enricher** Your job is to be on the lookout for especially important words in today's reading. If you find words that are new to you, mark them down while reading. After you finish, you can look up their definition either from a dictionary or online. If there are other words used in an unusual way, jot them down too. When your group meets, you need to bring up these words and share them and their meaning with the group. Example Page

**Literary Luminary Your job is to locate a few sections of the text that your group would like to hear read aloud. The idea is to help people remember some interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important sections of the text. You need to choose which passages of the assigned reading are worth hearing, and make a plan for how they should be read (silently, aloud, in pairs) and then discuss them. Example Page**

**Travel Tracer** When you are reading a book where the characters move around a lot and the scene changes frequently, it is important that everyone knows //where// things are happening, and how the setting has changed. Your job is to carefully track where the action takes place during the assigned reading. Describe the setting in detail. Either with words, or with a map or diagram you can show to your group. You might also consider tracking using Google Maps or Google Earth. Example Page

**Investigator** Your job is to dig up some background info on any topic related to your book. Some ideas for this might include:
 * Local geography, weather, culture
 * Info about the author and other works (maybe you can actually contact them? Skype? Email?)
 * History of the time period or location of the book
 * Other areas to investigate?

Once you've completed your investigations, find a way to share them with your group. Example Page || = =