Literature Circle Discussion

  My literature circle group, Claire, Daisy, and Melodie, our book, Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George. We did our first discussion last tuesday. Literature Circles is a way of sharing thoughts, ideas, question and so on about the same book a few people are reading. Everyone has a different viewpoint of the book, getting together and discussing about it helps the reader understand more about the book. My reading book 'Julie of the Wolves' is about a girl, Miyax, who runs away from her terrifying husband, Daniel, to her pen pal Amy who lived in San Francisco. Miyax had gotten lost on the North Slope of Alaska, where she met a pack of wolves. Soon they are her only hope of survival, The Slope is barren, with no food she has to depend on the wolves to give her food. Each person in the group shared their Lit Circle sheets, which includes two passages, two discussion questions, two responces to the questions, two connections and two vocabulary. After sharing I noticed how each of us had a different idea about the same book, and I understood that listening to each other we also helped them with mistakes they made or a misunderstanding.


 The group discussion helped my understanding of the book, not only me but everyone else in the group. I had trouble understanding the sentences and their meaning because English my second language. My group helped me clear out those problems. For example I thought someone else was talking about Miyax, like they were telling the story not Miyax. My group members explained to me how it works and I learned. Also Daisy, thought that Silver gave food to Miyax not Jello. Jello, almost an adult wolf gave food to a pup, Kapu, who brought food to Miyax.


 Connections are important in a discussion, they help bring out similar thoughts or question from group members. Sometimes there are connections sometimes there's no connections, but it's still important. Most people think similarly, but not quiet the same usually notice the same things in books. For example, for the discussion questions, Daisy and Melodie had the same question just the words were turned around a bit. They aruged about it for a while, but Claire told them that maybe they thought in similar ways.


I predict that using Lit Circles kids can express their ideas and thoughts. Then other group members will see the book from a different angle. Sometimes in your group there might be a shy kid, as they get used to Lit Circles they will start to share more ideas. Since their always with the same group they get comfortable with them.




Literature Circles is a useful reading group thats helps ideas, thoughts, question, connections, predictions for a book come out. Group members understand because they are reading the same book. Sharing ideas makes understanding easier, they can see similar ideas, edit mistakes or misunderstanding. When someone has a problem, they can ask their group members for help.

Sources-

newberryproject.blogspot.com

cobbk12.org