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In your groups of 4, you are all required to bring along your favourite short story. Read each one and discuss which one you find the most interesting and why. Come to some consensus and you must all agree to choose ONE of the stories to work on. Your task is as followed: 1. Outline the plot. Write a blurb to entice readers to read your short story. It should be as imaginative and creative as possible. 2. As you read your short story, write down any vocabulary words you would like to understand better. Find their definitions and write them in a sentence of your own. 4. Your job is to write a list of questions that your group wants to discuss about the story. The best questions will come from your own thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the short story. You also need to compile a list of these questions and the answers to these questions as well. For example, did anything surprise you about this story? How does the language contribute to the overall mood of the story? What techniques does the writer use to effectively advance his/her plot? etc. 6. Describe the setting of the story in detail, either with a picture map or in words. Does the scenery change? Why/why not? How important is the setting to the overall effectiveness of the story?
 * __SHORT STORY UNIT - LITERATURE CIRCLES__**
 * 3.** Your job is to find a connection between the short story you are reading and the outside world. This may mean connecting what you have read to your own life, to what happens at school or in the community, or to a similar event at other times and places, or to other people or problems. Once each member of the group has shared their connection to the story, choose one connection and write a description of the part of the book, and its connection to the outside world.
 * 5.** Your job is to choose a paragraph or sentence from the short story to analyse. The purpose is to help other students by spotlighting something interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling or important from the story. Read the section you have chosen to your group members, discuss it with them and record it on your wiki. Please record the name of the story, the page and the section you have chosen, then write your analysis underneath.
 * 7.** You're the illustrator! Your job is to draw some kind of picture related to what you have read. It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, stick figure scene or an image off the internet that encapulates the main character, the plot or the setting. Show your image to the group. Let them comment upon what they think it might mean, then explain it to your group.

PLEASE NOTE: QUESTIONS 3,5 and 7 must be completed by ALL members of the group individually! All remaining questions can be done as a group ie. one written response per group.