Our students have been learning new ways to interpret stories. First through our Literature Circles! We have started our first week of conferences in our cycle. Parents will recall seeing the Literature Circle package that went home 2 weeks ago, and students are responsible for doing their readings and completing their job ready for the due date.
On that due date we go around the table sharing our contributions for our different jobs designed to analyze the reading for different qualities.
Capable Connectors write reflections making connections between their readings and themselves, current events in the world, and other stories they have read.
Word wizard looks through our reading for new or interesting vocabulary, documenting and defining the use of those words and what it means.
Artful Artist recreates any important aspect of the story as visual art. The medium is up to them (hand-drawing, painting, sculpture, lego diorama, even decorating a cake!) and they must write a reflection on their piece explaining the choices they made.
Super Summarizer has to condense and summarize the main events characters and settings of their reading, and recap the last weeks events for the group.
The Discussion Director organizes our group meeting and generates thoughtful discussion questions to probe the opinions and understanding of the group on the most recent material.
On top of this, we have drama class where we practice telling our own stories through Tableaus (still scenes using our bodies to represent different objects and scenes.) We've already warmed up with a series of random topics (mountains, scissors) and are now moving on to recreating and retelling fairytale picture books. We're very excited to see all the students work and maybe show our reading buddies even more of our dramatic interpretations.
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