2. Your job is to develop a list of questions that your group will want to discuss about the reading. Through your questions, you must help people recognize important ideas in the book. You will also control the conversation so that everyone has a fair chance to express his or her opinions. Must have good leadership abilities and a good understanding of the book in order to ask questions that will evoke thoughtful discussion.

3. Provide at least 5 questions at each meeting Must make sure each group member has participated in discussion Prompt reluctant speakers to voice opinions Your role isn’t to give the right answers but to promote deep understanding and lively discussion Time manager – interrupt off-topic conversation to keep discussion moving Submit report on socrative site Sample questions to use when leading discussions: What was going through your mind when you read this? What are the one or two most important ideas or developments? What parts are still unclear to you? What is confusing you about a character or situation? Can you predict some things we might discuss next time we meet?

4. Illustrator Interpreter is a much-coveted role among creative/artistic students. This job involves the ability of readers to make mental images of a text as a way to understand events they encounter during reading. Readers who visualize as they read are better able to recall what they have read than those who do not visualize. Readers can develop a clear understanding of what is happening by visualizing the setting, characters, or actions in the plot.

5. Your job is to visually bring the book to life. You will choose 5 passages from the text where you get a vivid picture in your mind of what is taking place and post-it note the page. Create a picture collage of the key passages. You can print off pictures from the internet, or cut out pictures from magazines, or draw the collage that illustrates what you see when you are reading. Passages for the collage will represent a variety of elements of fiction including: setting, character description, and actions in the plot When sharing your collage with the group refer back to textual evidence in the book and explain each part of the collage.

6. Your job is to bring attention to key lines, quotes, and details from the text. The selections can focus on ideas that are interesting, powerful, funny, important, puzzling or just worthy of hearing. This job requires you to read closely and recognize humor, irony, and important ideas. Literary Luminaries pay attention to what is significant and what is not.

7. Choose 5 passages/key lines, quotes or details from the book to share with the group. Focus on ideas that are interesting, powerful, funny, important, puzzling or just worthy of hearing. Analyze how key lines, quotes, or details leave an impression on the reader Describe the significance of each line and why you chose it

8. When we speak, we reveal a little something about ourselves. Characters in a book do the same. Dialogue provides texture and deeper insight into the character. Dialogue reveals a character’s personality, thoughts, how they act and interact with other characters and also the environment. It is also a good way of showing mood and emotion and suggesting what might happen next in the plot. Your job is to look at a variety of conversations or dialogue between characters. Conversation critics analyze characters’ thoughts, reactions to others and how they see themselves, environmental impacts, and plot references.

9. Your job is to: Choose 5 different examples of dialogue Analyze dialogue and what it shows about the character’s thoughts, feelings, emotions, how he/she reacts to others, his/her general mood What dialogue tells us about plot – hints of what might happen next or important information about plot Be prepared to share your examples AND the analysis

10. The P I Guy has the fascinating assignment of digging up background information on any topic related to the reading. This is a great job for students who enjoy researching and finding information online. The PI Guy can find information to shed light on geographic location of setting, history, time period, music, author, objects, culture, art or artifacts. PI’s could also find an article for the group to read that makes a connection to any of these.

11. Your job is to research all aspects relating to your book Create an FBI profile on your book Your profile should include at least 3 of the following options: 1. Research geographic location of setting in book or a similar place in today’s society 2. History of characters (family background, physical description, talents, skills, habits, academic background, motivators, etc.) 3. Time Period – major incidents 4. Music you would associate with section of book 5. Author 6. Objects/Symbols – important to this section of book 7. Culture of community (beliefs, customs, laws, language etc.) 8. Art or artifacts 9. Magazine or Newspaper article