Literature+Circles


 * =**Literature Circle Navigation**=

@Lit Circle Links
|| Welcome to Virtual Literature Circles!

You'll be using this space to analyze, annotate, discuss, and publish work in a student-led, literature circle format. You will be choosing your own books to read (from a class list), forming groups with others, and working out reading schedules and other group work associated with that reading. Instead of completing this work all through face-to-face meetings, paper journals, role sheets, and assessments, your work will be done primarily through a group-created wiki space. If your wiki does its job, it will entice readers into reading your group's book.

As a group, you will complete the following projects and post them to a Wiki page for your novel and class. You may work on this project during the class time allotted, before or after school, and at home. **All group members are expected to participate in the creation of the Wiki** and will be evaluated by their other members after the project is completed.


 * What are the advantages? **
 * Assignments, communication, and assessments are paperless (generally). Consider all of the trees who will thank you for their very lives!
 * Your literature circle will not be limited to students in the same class.
 * You will learn to practice ethical, safe and effective use of technology.
 * You will have the opportunity to express your ideas in a variety of digital media.
 * Everyone will have an equal chance to participate in discussions and site-building.

**How is a Wiki different from a regular webpage?** There is a short video from Common Craft called "Wikis in Plain English" that should give you a decent idea of what a wiki is. You can access it here

**How does this work?** For starters, I've set up new wiki pages for all of the reading groups. You need only go to the @Lit Circle Links page and find the page for your team!

Group members consult the main literature circle page to find out what is required on their wikis, and they use the discussion tab for online conversations about the books they're reading. The really fun part is setting up the wiki page and embedding a variety of media to help describe our books and entice others to read and discuss them. ||