{"id":49,"date":"2007-07-28T15:12:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/literature-circle-resources"},"modified":"2016-10-02T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T17:20:59","slug":"literature-circle-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/literature-circle-resources","title":{"rendered":"Literature Circle Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote a rather lengthy post about Harvey Daniels&#8217; book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1571103333\/nickslists-20\">Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups<\/a><\/em>, so today I want to list a few resources for those of you interested in knowing more about literature circles.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite my criticism of a section in Chapter 3, I really think Daniels&#8217; book is valuable and practical for middle school and high school teachers.\u00c2\u00a0 I especially appreciated reading concrete examples from actual teachers, and seeing the theory put into practice.<\/p>\n<p>The best place to begin looking into literature circles on the web is with Jim Cornish&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stemnet.nf.ca\/CITE\/lang_lit_circles.htm\">Literature Circles page<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 His list of links is pretty comprehensive, and includes two sites that are worth mentioning here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litcircles.org\/\">Litcircles.org<\/a> is mainted by the College of Education at Seattle University and looks very thorough and practical.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaturecircles.com\/\">LiteratureCircles.com<\/a> is the official website of Daniels&#8217; book, and though it&#8217;s pretty sparse, the information you get is helpful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ReadWriteThink website also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwritethink.org\/lessons\/lesson_view.asp?id=19\">Getting Started Guide to Literature Circles<\/a> that can be extremely useful to teachers implementing them for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done an adaptation of literature circles in my classes in the past, but this year I&#8217;m going to try for a more complete implementation of Daniels&#8217; ideas because I like the way his view of literature circles makes the students more accountable for their own reading decisions.\u00c2\u00a0 I also like the way literature circles try to make reading instruction more authentic and less artificial, so that students learn more sophisticated skills in a natural way.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to agree with Mortimer Adler&#8217;s view that instruction should be about 15% lecture\/didactic, 15% socratic dialogue, and 70% practice.\u00c2\u00a0 I see literature circles fitting into the 70% practice slot, and lending themselves naturally to some socratic discussions.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, two other books I&#8217;m re-reading right now deal with the connection between literature circles and socratic discussions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1930556225\/nickslists-20\"><em>Socratic Seminars and Literature Circles<\/em><\/a> by Moeller and Moeller, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1571103945\/nickslists-20\">Socratic Circles<\/a><\/em> by Matt Copeland.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes as the school year progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote a rather lengthy post about Harvey Daniels&#8217; 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