Book+Group+Rubric+and+Outline

Students will work in book groups for the first three weeks of this unit. During the first class meeting, students will be introduced to the four books that they will be able to choose from. At the end of class they will turn in their top three choices and the following day I will announce the book groups.

During the first book group meeting, students will meet and discuss how they want their meetings to go. They will be responsible for assigning themselves reading assignments and coming up with group and personal reading goals. The following word document is the rubric of how I want my students to decide their reading schedule and goals. This will be turned into me at the end of the class to look over, make copies of, and then returned to them. After they have completed their books, they will be assigned a group muligenre project. Groups will create a multigenre blog connecting different forms of injustice that arise in the book with real life examples from history. They will examine different characters in the book and in presenting different issues, work together to look how different perspectives of points of views change the messages portrayed. Groups will pin point themes that arise throughout the book and teach the class about what the main messages are in their book and how to combat the issues of injustice that arise.

Different genres include: Memoirs Dialogues Travel journals Journal entries Screen plays Recipes Letters Songs Poems Etc, etc, etc.