Literature Circles
These are the three books we read in the literature circles unit.
What are Maus, The Book Thief, and Number the Stars?
This is the main character of Speak.
Who is Melinda Sordino?
This is a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
This is the number of school days that I have been your teacher (for most of you).
What is 360?
This is my favorite color.
What is purple?
The activity in which we drew circles around names of people we cared about was called this.
What is the Universe of Obligation?
This is the author of Speak
Who is Laurie Halse Anderson?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
This is the room number of this classroom.
What is 309?
This is the grade I preferred teaching, between 7th and 8th.
What is 8th grade?
The last article we read had to do with the idea of whether or not this concept is possible with an event like the Holocaust.
What is forgiveness?
This is Melinda's former best friend.
Who is Rachel?
This is the repetition of sounds specifically at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
This is the number of novels (don't count plays) you have read between 7th and 8th grade (as a class or in book groups).
What is 5?
This is the book I got the most sick of teaching when I was in 7th grade.
What is The Giver?
This is the author of the poem "Never Shall I Forget."
Who is Elie Wiesel?
This is the novel they read in the chapter "Code Breaking."
What is "The Scarlet Letter"?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is something that stands in for or represents a bigger idea.
This is the number of students in the smallest class I had this year.
What is 14?
This is my personal favorite book I've taught across both years.
What is We Have Always Lived in the Castle?
This is the author of the poem "First They Came."
Who is Martin Niemoller?
This is the name of the last chapter in the novel.
This is a reference to another piece of literature, in order to make a point, in an existing book.
What is an allusion?
This is the age I will be turning in September.
What is 32?
This person is my favorite student.
Who is EVERYONE?! :) yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy