A New Horizon of Investigation, Scholarship, & Sophistication

“I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions.
I don’t see it as a handing down of answers.”

Alice Walker

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“If reading is about mind JOURNEYS,
teaching reading is about outfitting the travelers, modeling how to use the map, demonstrating how to use the key and legend…
until, ultimately, it’s the child and the map together and they are off on their own.”

“Mind Journeys,” Mosaic of Thought, Susan Zimmermann and Ellin Oliver Keene, p. 28” [Emphases mine]

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Literature Circle Frames & Think Like a Disciplinarian Circles provide an intellectual, rigorous, and authentic pathway into and through literature. Each role utilized provides students interaction with stories in ways that will bring thoughtful and meaningful engagement as well as literary scholarship and sophistication. Every discussion or seminar provides students opportunities to collaborate and develop sophistication beyond a superficial, contrived response.

Enjoy your journey...more importantly, bring your experiences to the classroom!

[Chung's Lit Circles Google Webpage]

Circles=Frames? Depth & Complexity in Lit Circles

“The concept of diversity describes differences between learners who are typical and those who are atypical in terms of culture, socioeconomic conditions, and learning characteristics. The increasing diversity of learners in our classrooms demands differentiated response for atypical learners."

Susan Winebrenner, “How Differentiation Techniques Benefit All Students.”
Orange County Council for Gifted and Talented Education, 31st Annual Conference, 
U.C. Irvine

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Using Literature Circle ROLES integrated into FRAMES, successful, scholarly “literary experiences” can be achieved. Intellectually rigorous, standards relevant, and flexible to student learning levels, LIT. CIRCLES WITH FRAMES allow teachers to provide concrete pathways for students to actively engage in the literacy tasks needed for reading comprehension, analysis, and creative expressions.

CONSIDER...

• How LIT. CIRCLES WITH FRAMES enhance the literary experiences of all students
• In what ways the Dimensions of Depth and Complexity, & Content Imperatives help enrich the experience of Lit. Circles