Today we launched our Grade 6 Literature Circles. Last week students ranked their top 5 books.  We will be reading the following novels:

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson

Students can find their groups by accessing this document: Grade 6 Book Club

Some students are at home this week and do not have their books with them. You are still expected to read (to ensure you don’t fall behind). You can Google a PDF version of your novel to utilize while at home. Additionally, you can use this website: https://archive.org/details/inlibrary to access a digital copy of the book. You will have to make a free account but you can do so using your OJCS email. Please let me know if you have any problems. 

Grade 6 Literature Circles Goal: Create a community of learners/enhance our reading skills
Date	Reading Strategy	Activity
May 30th	Introduce books, groups, expectations, set reading deadlines
Week 1	Visualizing	Friday, June 3rd
Week 2	Making Connections	Thursday, June 9th
Week 3	Summarization	Friday, June 17th Book needs to be complete by this date
Wednesday, June 22nd	One-Pager Final Projects Due (Class Showcase)

Reading Strategies

1. Visualizing
2. Creating connections
3. Summarizing

Your book needs to be finished no later than Friday, June 17th. However, as you read you can begin creating your One-Pager Final Project. Each week we will focus on a particular skill. Groups will work on an activity together towards the end of the week (see the schedule above). However, each student will be responsible for individually creating their own One-Pager Final Project. 

Click here to access the One-Pager Final Project.