What is a Lit Circle?????????

Basically – it’s a book club!

Purpose:

·       To read a book you enjoy!

·       To read with a group!

·       To talk about the book together!

·       To hold each other accountable for your reading!

·       To help each other better understand the book!

·       To learn how to take on the different roles on the group:

1.    Discussion Leader - To form questions for your group

2.   Summarizer - To summarize what you’ve read

3.    Connector - To find ways that you and group members relate to the book

4.    Word Wizard - To understand the meaning of new and different words

5.    Passage Picker - To find interesting, exciting, different, suspenseful, and important parts of the book

6. Descriptive Literary Luminary - To find examples of literary devices with the text