Assignment for RDG 588 students:
LITERATURE CIRCLE #2- April 6
Project Rubric
For the second literature circle each group will read the same
books: Tangled Threads, and The Whispering Cloth both by
Pegi
Deitz Shea. On the evening of this literature circle the author
will be present. We will participate in a literature circle and
each group will share their extension project. Pegi Deitz Shea
will present to us as well. For this session our class will
participate in an Internet Project. An Internet project involves
a project in which classes collaborate via the Internet. For
this project we will post our group share on a common website
focusing on Literature Circles. Your projects should have a
visual component. See description of this project at
Susan Silverman¹s website. View some
ideas for
extension projects.
The students enrolled in RDG 588 Teaching
Children Literature course are inservice teachers (K-12) earning
their Master’s Degree in Reading and Language Arts at Central
Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. This is their
second literature circle this semester and we are finding that
they can be great fun and an important way to build a cohesive
literacy community in our classrooms. To find out more about
literature circles in this class you can visit my
RDG 588 online syllabus.
This time students read the same two
books, The Whispering Cloth and its sequel, Tangled
Threads, both written by
Pegi
Deitz Shea. On the evening of our literature circles we were
honored to have Pegi Deitz Shea join us. She gave us inside
information about the development and writing of these books and
we were enthralled by the insights she provided on her books.
Each group then shared their extension projects that they
collaboratively developed and we informally responded to them
and interacted with the author in the process.
The extension projects provided a valuable
way for the groups to revisit, and re-experience the book in a
new and in-depth ways. Please visit our Tangled Threads
PowerPoint presentation to view our extension projects. Be sure
to download our PowerPoint presentation in which students
created an ABC book on Tangled Threads. It offers some
amazing insights on this very powerful book. If you do not have
Power Point on your computer,
Microsoft offers a free viewer which can be downloaded.
Author Pegi Shea Deitz
holding a Hmong story cloth that was inspirational to her in the
writing of Tangled Threads. |
