Outside+Reading

=Essential Questions:=


 * ===Why read?===
 * ===What do effective readers do? ===

COURSE COMPETENCIES:
= = =Reading Strategies=
 * Students will demonstrate the ability to read, comprehend, analyze, and critique a variety of increasingly complex literary texts.
 * Students will demonstrate the ability to read, comprehend, analyze, and critique a variety of increasingly complex informational texts
 * 1.** **Summarize:**
 * What is happening?
 * What is your book about?
 * 2. Make** **Connections (text to self, text to text, text to world):**
 * Pick **ONE** of these to address. Explain the connection
 * How can you relate to the book, an event or character (text to self)?
 * How does this book, an event or character relate to another text (text to text)?
 * How does this book relate to a world event (text to world)?


 * 3. Ask Questions:**
 * What is confusing?
 * What do I not understand?


 * 4.** **Choose** **Themes:**
 * What are the themes or issues (world peace, friendship, good vs. evil, family, overcoming odds, achievement, etc.)?
 * What lessons or ideas was the writer trying to communicate to the reader?
 * What is the message?
 * Why are these important?


 * 5.** **Identify an** **Emotional Response:**
 * Identify a specific part of the book that caused an emotional response and explain how it made you feel and why (something confusing, disturbing, humorous, etc.).


 * 6.** **Analyze a** **Quote:**
 * What is a thought-provoking quote (excerpt from the book)?
 * Copy the excerpt with the page number and who said it (this could be the narrator)
 * Explain why the excerpt stood out for you.


 * 7.** **Critique:**
 * Did you like or dislike the book? Explain.
 * Would you recommend this book to someone else? Why or why not?

=SUMMER READING ASSESSMENTS:= [|9th grade template]

[|10th grade template]

[|Non-fiction template]

=Whole School Literature Circle:=

Example Admissions Ticket:
[|Student Model]

Rubrics:
[|Admissions Ticket Rubric]

[|Whole School Literature Circle Rubric]

=SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT:=

[|Create your own newspaper article]
[|Animated Videos and commercials]

[|30 sec video commercial]

[|write and publish a narrative story with illustrations]