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Working from the Text
6. Work collaboratively to apply each of the different Literature Circle roles to the autobiographical narrative and the poem. Use the Text-Dependent Questions, as well as questions you develop during your discussion, to compare and analyze these texts.
7. How is the autobiographical narrative’s theme similar to and different from the poem’s theme?
8. Use the graphic organizer that follows as a reminder of the roles and to guide your thinking for your Literature Circle discussion of both texts.
My Notes
Artist: Choose one image. Visualize and sketch it.
Diction Detective:
Analyze how the author uses descriptive and figurative imagery for effect.
Reporter: Write a
brief summary of the text. What is it about? What is the theme or central idea?
Discussion leader:
Use Levels of Questions to create three discussion questions:
Literal Interpretive Universal
Check Your Understanding
Bridge Builder: Make a text-to- self, text-to-text, and text-to- world connection.
• Text to Self
• Text to Text • Text to World
Central text
Quickwrite: What did you learn about the Holocaust through your discussion of these texts? Which text is more powerful? Explain using at least one quote from the text you chose as part of your explanation.
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