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Discussion Director 

Name Meeting Date

Case Study Title Assignment - P to P

Your job is to develop a list of questions that your group might want to discuss about this case study. Don't worry about the small details; your task is to help people talk over the big ideas in the reading and share their reactions. Usually the best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. You can list your questions before, during, or after your reading. Or you may use some of the general discussion questions below to develop topics for your group.

During the discussion, your job is to write down and summarize the discussion that takes place in your group around the questions you ask.

1) Question:

Discussion:

 

 

 

 

 

2) Question:

Discussion:

 

 

 

 

 

3) Question:

Discussion:

 

 

 

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Character’s Friend

Name Meeting Date

Case Study Title Assignment - P to P

 

Your Job as Friend of the character is to choose one or more of the Characters in the part you read and write a paragraph about their thoughts and feelings in this case study. What is happening to them? How are they feeling? What sort of people are they? Why do they behave the way they do?

 

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Connector

 

Name Meeting Date

Case Study Title Assignment - P to P

Your job is to find connections between the case study your group is reading and the world outside. This means connecting it to your own life, to happenings outside school or in the community, to similar events at other times and places, to other people or problems that you are reminded of. You might also see connections between this case study and other writings on the same topic, or by the same author.

Some connections I found between this case study and the world outside were:

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Possible kinds of connections:

+ Happenings at school

+ World events

* Problems you have experienced

* Similar books or authors

* Subjects studied at school

 

Artful Illustrator

Name Meeting Date

Case Study Title Assignment - P to P

Your job as Illustrator is to note the page number from where you get your inspiration, then draw and colour a DETAILED Picture of an important selection from the case study. Make your illustration on another sheet of paper and attach it to this one before handing in this assignment.

Presentation Plan: Show your illustration without comment to others in the group. One at a time, they get to speculate what your picture means, to connect the drawing to their own ideas about the case study. After everyone has had a say, you get the last word: tell them what your picture means, where it came from, or what it represents to you.

Comments to share with your group (reasons why you drew that illustration, what it means to you, what part of the story it represents, etc.)

 

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Passage Picker

Name Meeting Date

Case Study Title Assignment - P to P

 

Your Job as Passage Picker is to locate a few special selections of the text that your group would like to hear read aloud. The idea is to help people remember some interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important sections of the text. You decide which passages or paragraphs are worth hearing, and then jot plans for how they should be shared. You can read them aloud yourself, ask someone else to read them, or have people read silently and then discuss.

Location:

Reasons for Picking

Plan for Sharing

1. Page _____

__________________

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Paragraph _____

__________________

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2. Page _____

__________________

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Paragraph _____

__________________

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3. Page _____

__________________

__________________

     

Paragraph _____

__________________

__________________

 

 

Possible reasons for picking a passage to be shared:
Important + Funny + Surprising + Confusing + Informative
Controversial + Well-written + Thought- Provoking
Meaningful + Poetic Language + Powerful

 

 

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Word Hunter

Name Meeting Date

Case Study Title Assignment - P to P

 

Your job is to be on the lookout for words that may be unusual, puzzling, or unfamiliar. Try to figure out their meaning from the context clues around the words. Look up the words in a dictionary and discuss them with an adult. Write a definition in your own words. Make sure that you understand the words before you meet with the group! Lead your group through a discussion of the words and their meanings.

 

Word

Page

Best Guess

Dictionary Definition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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