Chapter 13

Literature circles are something I am not to familiar with. If I am not mistaken, I think they are groups of students working on the same book and they read it at a designated part of the day. They work on projects as a group and they discuss the book as a group. I think this is where you can have a person who keeps track of the plot, a person who comes up with a new ending to the story, a person who keep the characters strait, and so on. This is a good way to have the children work together. It allows the children to have autonomy about what they discuss in the classroom and it also allows for the to children to have ownership in what they are learning and what they have to do in their groups.