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. |