Lit+Circle+Project

=**Literature Circles Home Page **=

For your final assessment for the Literature Circle unit, you and your group will design a web page about the novel you read. The goal of the web page is to educate and inform others about the novel itself and its connection to the major concepts that you have studied in English 363 this year. Your audience for this project is not just your teacher, not just your classmates at GBS, but the entire world!

All web projects can be designed to look the way you want them to. You can enhance your web page any way you like. Here are some ideas to get you started: add photos, illustrations, graphics, videos, power point slideshows, surveys, calendar or anything else that will help you to communicate your ideas. All web pages are required to have at least ONE multimedia element per section. Each web page is required to have all FIVE of the the following sections. Each of the sections has varying components:

During the course of the unit, you and your group members have posed many questions for discussion. In this section of the web page, imagine that you are creating a reader's guide for people who have not yet read this novel. You should compile a list of ten thoughtfully phrased study questions based on the novel. About half of these questions should be questions readers can answer as they read the novel, and the other half should be questions that they can use to help process the "big picture" after reading.
 * Discussion Questions:**

Please choose FIVE or SIX key quotations from the text. Two or three of these quotations should be chosen because they showcase what your group beleives to be key features of the author's STYLE. The rest of the quotations should be selected because your group found them profound, relevant to modern life, or thought-provoking. After each passage, please be sure to give credit to the author by citing the page and the author's name. In addition, provide a paragraph of explanation describng the relevant features of the quote, and why your group chose to include it on the website.
 * Passage List:**

On this page, you will make three assertions about MAJOR connections between the literature circle book and the rest of the course curriculum. Each assertion should be supported with an explanation of the connection you have made. Viable ways to connect the course content to the new novel include consideration of the following: major themes or concepts of the year's literature and readings; major social, political, or historical connections; stylistic similarites or differences. Bear in mind that the word "connection" does not mean "same"...therefore, it is a very fruitful path to look at how the literature circle novel complicates, contradicts or confirms ideas and theories the class has already built during the year.
 * Curricular Connections:**

This section of the website will include an analysis of the following components of the novel: central characters, the setting, point of view, conflict, themes and symbols. This page should be a synthesis of the "Literary Analysis" section of your Literature Circle Packets.
 * Literary Analysis:**

In this section, please create links to supplementary material that readers of the novel might enjoy or find helpful as they read this novel. Possibilities include: links to reviews, suggested viewing (TV, movies, YouTube videos, etc.)
 * External Links and Supplemental Readings:**

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