LITERATURE CIRCLE IS FUN!!!!!

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” 
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

Students of Grade 5 have started a mind blowing literature circle. Its the unit in English they are bucking up!!

Definitely they are the students of TGES Implementing TFU, Rajkot,  India.

The students Shubhanshi Gaudani, Aaryaa Kamdar, Yatharth Dave, Khushi Doshi and Anjali Jakasania are having a very nice time reading the book "YEAR OF NO RAIN" by Alice Mead, while others are reading and having discussions about the books Rat Squad, My Guinea pig is innocent, Go to the dragon maker, Front page story and The spell of trouble.

Want to read more about this interesting book come on lets start our journey

Our Journey Throughout The First Literature Circle Of Ours!!!!

- Literature Circle discussion and playing roles

Now, first of all what is a LITERATURE CIRCLE???

Okay, A literature circle is a time when a group of people read a book together and discuss about their point of views and their predictions. But how does everyone manage together???

So this was what we did, according to our teacher Mrs. Prina Thaker we had chosen our roles. Discussion leader, connector, summarizer, literary reactor, wordsmith, Compare and contrast leader and a researcher. Of course you'd be confused, but not after this.

Discussion leader- To lead the discussions after reading some amount of text or each chapter. The discussion leader personally reads or gives others chances, poses questions like 

What do you think what will happen to Stephen?[ main character]

Do you think this is a trick of old Garang [Thought to be a villain]. 

Connector- Connects text to world, himself or other books.Like This book to the front page story or any dance part to our birthday parties, etc.

Summarizer- Every time summarizes the text read into short lines.

Literary reactor- Reacts to any part of speech or any question that the discussion leader or the other has asked. The person thinks deep and reacts to how the author has put twists and turns in the story.

Wordsmith- To tell the meaning of any word not clear to the group member.

Compare and contrast leader- To compare the part of the story in different roles like Stephen to Old Garang. Their positive points and negative points.

Researcher- To research On facts that are supposed to be real. Like neighboring countries of south Sudan  cuisine, culture, climate, etc....

List of students playing their roles

Discussion leader - Shubhanshi gaudani

Connector- Aaryaa Kamdar

Summarizer- Anjali Jakasania

Literary reactor- Yatharth Dave

Researcher- Khushi Doshi

Wordsmith- Aaryaa Kamdar and Shubhanshi Gaudani

Compare and contrast leader- Anjali Jakasania

Second part of our journey: 

Now we started playing our roles. Of course you'll hesitate for the first time but it will be okay when children will start playing their roles as per the needs. 

Tips we would recommend-

Discussion leader should pose many intelligent questions that would make the other team members put their thinking caps on.......

The connector should be experienced enough to make sensible connections to the world, self and other book.

The summarizer should have the ability to think up summaries fast in mind and speak it out fluently at the end of the chapter.

The literary reactor should be able to think deep and out of the box and should be able to answer the discussion leaders questions.

The researcher should find answers not only from the net but also from people, books, etc.......The answers should be accurate and connect to the story.

The wordsmith should have a good vocabulary and should know the meanings that the group hesitates in understanding.

The compare and contrast leader should make effective differences between the book and the other characters present in the book.

3-We really enjoyed in the literature circle having many thoughts circling around with tons and tons of humor. We came across questions like:

-Why can't a wife have more than 1 husband if a husband can have 2 wives?
-Can the wife be elder than the husband in olden times in teenage?

4) Our last step was making our final products on the book. Believe us or not you or we both can come up with amazing products by doing divergent and convergent thinking.

Divergent thinking- We think out of the box, very unique ideas might not be possible but would always be interesting.!!!!!

Convergent thinking- Now you need to setup your brains because you are gonna think some of the realistic fab ideas....here you will think only ideas that suite your audience and the story. The idea should fulfill your purpose....

Okay out of the ideas you got in convergent thinking now after you get the product you are making start to make!!!We bet you'd enjoy it very much....


Our sweet memories



 Anjali Jakasania doing DIVERGENT thinking............

Shubhanshi Gaudani doing her final product......

After her experiance and the groups guidance hope you have a nice time in literature circle





                                                              Aaryaa Reading and making Connections

Shubhanshi reading aloud enjoying the text!!!!!

Yatharth Dave doing convergent thinking.......

His Thinking caps are onnnnn!!!!!!














Our first  literature circle is one of the awesome ones with Year of no rain......
This was our experience of the literature circle hope you get influenced by this and have a very very very very nice time.......Looking forward for your experience and feedback!!!! Hope this helped you....