1. Think about the work you completed in your reading character role.
What is a letter act discussion?
This question asks you about your work in your reading character role. You may use your novel to help you answer the question. Think about the work you completed in your reading character role. Determine the ideas that would be most worthy to share in letter act discussion about The Cay. Provide an explanation for your choices. How did the role you selected and the work you completed help you understand u more about the text?
What is a letter act discussion?
im having trouble understand what exactly the question means seeing as my teacher never had us do any work with our reading role..
• What images come to mind as you read?
• If you could interview the author, what
question would you ask? Why?
• Predict what will happen next and why.
(Note: Prediction may not apply for
informational texts.)
Word Watcher
As Word Watcher, you will think about the
following:
• What new words did you find in this
selection?
• What words are used frequently?
• What words are used in unusual ways?
As Summarizer, you will think about the
following:
• What are the key facts and/or main ideas
in this selection?
• If you were to come up with an essay
topic for this selection, what main idea
would you choose? Write an essay
question or prompt.
Luminary
As Luminary, you will think about the following:
• Which part of the reading (e.g., an
interesting fact, a piece of dialogue, an
event) really struck you? Why?
As Connector, you will think about the following:
• Connect what you have read so far with
things you have experienced at home or
in your personal life.
• Connect what you have read so far to
what is going on in the world right now.
• Connect what you have read to the Big
Question.