Literature Circles

Your quizzes for this book will be your homework assignment each night. Your job is to come up with FIVE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS for group discussion in class. Here are the five types of questions you need to write each night:

1. Analyzing Question
2. Question on a Quote
3. Question Connecting to Today's World/Society
4. Prediction Question
5. "What-would-you-do" / "How-would-you-feel" Question

ANALYZING QUESTION:
This question should be very similar to the quizzes we took for our previous novel. Make sure it is OPEN-ENDED - no 'yes or no' type of questions. Focus on a element of a novel: symbol, theme, character, setting, etc.

* How can we see the theme of childhood innocence in the beginning chapters of TKMB?

QUESTION ON A QUOTE:
Find a quote that interested you and write an OPEN-ENDED question about it.

* What do you think this quote means? I had trouble understanding it.

QUESTION CONNECTION TO TODAY'S WORLD/SOCIETY:
Write an OPEN-ENDED question that makes a connection with an issue in the novel to our world today.

* How can we see issues of judging in our lives here in the South?

PREDICTION:
Write a question that asks the group what they think will happen in future chapters (can be about character, plot, etc.)

* What do you think will happen with Boo Radley by the end of the story?

WHAT WOULD YOU DO QUESTION/ HOW WOULD YOU FEEL:
Obviously, write a question that asks the group what they would have done in a particular situation in the book.

* What would you have done if somebody had dared you to touch Boo Radley's house?