English 11 Lit Circles | Eastern Kentucky University

University:
Eastern Kentucky University
Course:
ENG 101 | Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric
Academic year:

2022
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453

Pages:

1
Author:

Lance Gutierrez

Lit Circles: Questions/Prompts: 1. How do individuals relate to society? 2. What larger conversation does this book join? What ideas is the author responding to, and whose are they? How does the author bring these other ideas into the book in order to respond to them? 3. What is the author’s perspective on society revealed in this book? How about the narrator’s? Are those perspectives (the author’s and the narrator’s) different? Why? How does that difference affect the ideas or how they are expressed? 4. Describe the author’s approach: Journalistic? Personal? Narrative? Argumentative? Historical? How does the author’s word choice create a tone that supports this approach? During Conversation: ● Quote: focus on significant words directly from the text. ● Summarize: shorten the length of the text and turn it into one or two sentences, almost as paraphrasing the main ideas. ● Claim: a claim of what you personally interpret the text’s meaning to be and using concrete evidence to support. ● Extend: after hearing another individual’s claims, add more evidence and explain their claim further. ● Counter: point out how another individual’s claim (or your own) is incorrectly interpreting the text. ● Define: point out significant words or phrases; connotation vs. denotation. ● Add Context: how does the text and claims connect to the modern world’s ideas and concepts. ● Investigate: consider doing more research about the topics expressed in the text to obtain a better understanding for comprehension.