Assignment/Daily Plan/Literature Circle Calendar

Monday	Tuesday April 25th Book Talks Book Selection	Wednesday April 24th Announce Groups Set up blog & calendar	Thursday April 25th Discuss Skype opportunity Building Background Information research the author why did they write the book? worldly connections What else do you need to know? post findings to blog-as a group	Friday April 26th Brainstorm expectations for literature circle and working with this group -positives -negatives -what do you expect to get from the book? -how much work do you think it will be? -looking forward to it? Record answers using iPad- of each person in the group (if group members are missing this needs to be done on Monday) please email to potgetert@wayland.k12.mi.us
Monday April 29th Mini lesson Asking good questions- Discuss reader's notebook- this needs to be posted on the blog after each reading section is to be completed- Please make sure your post Comment Question Connection READ!!!	Tuesday April 30th Assign Article/Artifact  work in class due on Thursday 1st Group discussion over blog postings tomorrow  READ!!!	Wednesday May 1st Group blog discussion Group Evaluation Due: Friday Questions to consider for evaluation: 1. What have their contributions been? (questions on the blog, are they taking part in discussions, contributing ideas, keeping up with the reading?) 2. 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest what would you give your group members? 3. What do you think they could work on? READ!!!	Thursday May 2nd Due: Article/Artifact Members that are not prepared will receive a zero for this assignment. As group members are sharing their article/artifact, other members must make a comment on the blog (my advice would be to create a new post for the Article/Artifact assignment) READ!!!	Friday May 3rd Assign Theme Sketch ( create a new post for this assignment; label it Theme Sketch) This should be done on the Theme Sketch sheet; then the final product must be posted to the blog. Make sure everyone in your group is participating. Perhaps after you have decided on the 5 themes, give each person in the group a theme, that way everyone is doing equal work. Please have the Theme Sketch posted to the blog no later than Sunday, May 5th. READ!!!