Conference+Tuesday+Roles

These roles will be rotated every week. If you do not have 5 people in your group, one person is responsible to do two jobs for the following week. These roles will be decided on by the group and will be completed for every **Tuesday**.
 * Roles for each meeting** :

Literary Luminary **:
 * 1) ** You are responsible for being the **Literary Luminary** and the **Illustrator**.

Your job 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 down plans for how they should be shared. You can read this passage aloud yourself, ask someone else to read them, or have people read silently and discuss.

__Possible reasons for picking a passage to be shared__: Important Surprising Funny Confusing Informative Controversial Well-written Thought-provoking Illustrator **: Your job is to draw some kind of picture related to the reading. It can be a sketch, cartoon diagram, flow chart or stick-figure scene. You can draw a picture of something that is discussed specifically in your book or something that the reading reminded you of. When it is time to show your picture, try this technique: show it to everyone without explaining. Then have them speculate what your picture means.

When it comes to your turn, 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 or what it means to you. 2) Discussion Director: ** Your job is to develop a list of questions that your group might want to discuss about this part of the book. Don’t worry about the small details. Your task is to help people talk about the BIG ideas in the reading and share their reactions. Usually the best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as your read, which you can list during or after your reading. Questions should be made specific to the novel.

Use the prompts: Why, How, If, Who. Also try to come up with your own question.


 * 3) Character Investigator **:


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Your job is to complete the protagonist and antagonist Venn diagram. Do this with pride to add towards exceeding this Literature Circles novel’s expectations. Try to think of their physical characteristics and their values while constructing this diagram. Continue to add to this throughout the book as it moves forward and other people add to their character list.


 * 4) Summarizer **:

Your job is to prepare a brief summary/synopsis of today’s reading that your group selected. The other members of your group will be counting on you to give a quick statement that conveys the key points, the main highlights, the essence of today’s reading assignment. If there are several main ideas or events to remember, list them in order in which they occurred.