Mrs. Solomon's 6G English Literature Circles

In 6th Grade English, students are grouped according to reading level and assigned a novel to read. The students are given 3 weeks to read their book and complete an assignment that focuses on reading comprehension, summarizing, creating thought provoking questions, and extracting golden lines. Each group meets once a week to discuss their books. In addition to this regular assignment, the students include an additional skill to each novel that is being taught in class.The year began with identifying conflict in short stories, and then, the students applied that same skill by identifying conflicts in their literature circle books. Presently, we are identifying direct and indirect characterization in our novel read aloud, The Cay, by Theodore Taylor. The students are applying this skill by identifying direct and indirect characterization in their literature circle books as well. The students really seem to enjoy their weekly meetings. Golden lines are shared and questions are discussed in detail. Our goal is to complete 10 books by the end of the year!