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 Day 1 Discussion Director
 * Name: __Book:__ The Catcher in the Rye**

__**Assignment: page**__ **__to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _** __**Your job is to develop a list of questions (and possible answers) that your group can discuss about this part of the novel. Your questions should be ones which require //thought// and get everyone //talking and sharing their opinions and reactions.// The best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Do NOT write questions that call for a simple "yes" or "no" answer or a factual detail!** **//Order for Leading Your Group Discussion//** 1. Call on the Summarizer to read the summary. 2. Pose each one of your questions to your group for discussion 3. Ask for each member of your group to state their comment/questions about this section of the novel. //Lead your group in response to what each person says.// 4. Call on the Passage Master. 5. Call on the Connector/ Artistic Adventurer. 6. You fill out the Group Record sheet, with input from your group members 7. After discussion is completed, assign roles for your next reading and make sure everyone gets a new role sheet, including absent members. 8. Call the teacher over. Be ready to discuss items on the Group Record sheet.

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 * What did you think about......? (name a specific event, action, or character's action)**
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 * What do you think will happen......? (ask for predictions of events and characters' actions)**
 * What is happening at the part where.......?**
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Day 2

Discussion Director **Name:John Haja __Book:__ _** The Catcher in The Rye __ __**Your job is to develop a list of questions (and possible answers) that your group can discuss about this part of the novel. Your questions should be ones which require //thought// and get everyone //talking and sharing their opinions and reactions.// The best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Do NOT write questions that call for a simple "yes" or "no" answer or a factual detail!** **//Order for Leading Your Group Discussion//** 1. Call on the Summarizer to read the summary. 2. Pose each one of your questions to your group for discussion 3. Ask for each member of your group to state their comment/questions about this section of the novel. //Lead your group in response to what each person says.// 4. Call on the Passage Master. 5. Call on the Connector/ Artistic Adventurer. 6. You fill out the Group Record sheet, with input from your group members 7. After discussion is completed, assign roles for your next reading and make sure everyone gets a new role sheet, including absent members. 8. Call the teacher over. Be ready to discuss items on the Group Record sheet.
 * Assignment: page** __**__to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _Avengers**

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__Your ideas: That must of been the lingo of the time they say it about 5 time's a page. __Your ideas: Waiting till the end of the semester or year. __Your ideas: He get's along with his roommates and hangs with them, but then they argue, trash talk each other, and get into fights and he ends up getting pnched in the face. __Your ideas:Haulden kept asking what he did at his date and where they went. __Your ideas: yes, because he seemed to enjoy his time there and had good friends. __Your ideas: Mabye, he said stupid stuff alot and was very loud and annoying, ignored people alot and seemed like he wanted to pick fights with people. **//Types of Questions://** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**What did you think about......? (name a specific event, action, or character's action)**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">1. //**__**//_Why do they "goddam" so much?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">2. //**__**//_Why is Haulden still at school if he was expelled for failing?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_Do you think Haulden is bipolar?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_What start's the fight between Haulden and Stradlater?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//_Do you think Haulden is going to miss Pency?//**
 * //6. //** __**//_Do you think that Haulden's roommates liked him even though he seemed odd?//**
 * Why do you think that.......?**
 * What do you think will happen......? (ask for predictions of events and characters' actions)**
 * What is happening at the part where.......?**
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">What do you think **__**(event/incident) means?**

Day 3 <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Discussion Director <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**Name: __Book:__ _** Catcher in The Rye __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**Your job is to develop a list of questions (and possible answers) that your group can discuss about this part of the novel. Your questions should be ones which require //thought// and get everyone //talking and sharing their opinions and reactions.// The best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Do NOT write questions that call for a simple "yes" or "no" answer or a factual detail!** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Order for Leading Your Group Discussion//** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">1. Call on the Summarizer to read the summary. 2. Pose each one of your questions to your group for discussion 3. Ask for each member of your group to state their comment/questions about this section of the novel. //Lead your group in response to what each person says.// 4. Call on the Passage Master. 5. Call on the Connector/ Artistic Adventurer. 6. You fill out the Group Record sheet, with input from your group members 7. After discussion is completed, assign roles for your next reading and make sure everyone gets a new role sheet, including absent members. 8. Call the teacher over. Be ready to discuss items on the Group Record sheet.
 * Assignment: page 59** __**__to page 88 Literature Circle's Name:__ _Avengers**

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__<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He feels lonely and they are the only things worth looking at in the Lavendar room. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas:He may have a new sparked interest in ducks because of something that is currently going on in his life at the time. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas:As a child he grew up in a crumby environment so as a result he most comfortable in the disfuntion of cumbiness. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He has always liked her he has just now started to tgink about how much he likes her compared to other women. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas:He just isn't thinking clearly and therefore he can't seem to make a decision because when he is under stress he can't think clearly. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas:He is a crossdresser in a play possibly and wants other people in the hotel to see what he is doing. <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Types of Questions://** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**What did you think about......? (name a specific event, action, or character's action)**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">1. //**__**//_Why does Holden end up dancing with girls that he finds ugly and furthermore why does he look at them in the first place if he finds them ugly?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">2. //**__**//_Why do you think that Holden keeps asking about the ducks in the pond?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_Why do you think that holden is turned on by things that are crumby?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_Has Holden always liked Jane or is this a new emotion that he is jus now starting have about her?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//_Why does Holden have so much indecision about calling someone that he knows well?//**
 * //6. //** __**//_ Why is the man in the hotel trying on womens clothing with no gaurd up for privacy?//**
 * Why do you think that.......?**
 * What do you think will happen......? (ask for predictions of events and characters' actions)**
 * What is happening at the part where.......?**
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">What do you think **__**(event/incident) means?**

Day 4

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Discussion Director <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**Name: __Book:__ _** __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**Your job is to develop a list of questions (and possible answers) that your group can discuss about this part of the novel. Your questions should be ones which require //thought// and get everyone //talking and sharing their opinions and reactions.// The best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Do NOT write questions that call for a simple "yes" or "no" answer or a factual detail!** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Order for Leading Your Group Discussion//** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">1. Call on the Summarizer to read the summary. 2. Pose each one of your questions to your group for discussion 3. Ask for each member of your group to state their comment/questions about this section of the novel. //Lead your group in response to what each person says.// 4. Call on the Passage Master. 5. Call on the Connector/ Artistic Adventurer. 6. You fill out the Group Record sheet, with input from your group members 7. After discussion is completed, assign roles for your next reading and make sure everyone gets a new role sheet, including absent members. 8. Call the teacher over. Be ready to discuss items on the Group Record sheet.
 * Assignment: page** __**__to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _**

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__<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think that Holden has never really had someone that has really cared about him besides family and now one of the ones that he cared about most is gone. I think that this has really messed him up phycologicaly __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think that it goes along with the idea that he has some sort of disorder like pipolar, for instance he could have had a good time with the prostitute but, he just got all nervous and depressed even though he was looking forward to it before hand sort of __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think that he is covering up his true self by acting tough, but really he has self confidence problems, even though he was right that the guy said that it was ten even though it was five __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think that he again has some disorder that can be diagnosed, like ADD. However they really didnt have any of these kinds of disorders. so they just thought that he was crazy, most likely __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas:I Really think that he just doesn't want to fornicate, but he really wants a relationship __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I really think that there just friends because nothing really happened <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Types of Questions://** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**What did you think about......? (name a specific event, action, or character's action)**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">1. //**__**//_//**Why Do you Think that Holden is very awkward when it comes to being with women?
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">2. //**__**//_//**Why do you think that Holden is always "depressed" at these weird times?
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_//**Why do you think that Holden acts tough but when it comes time to stand up for himself he really can't?
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_//**why is he so random all the time?
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//_//**Why does he freez up with the prostitute
 * //6. //** __**//_//**what do you think the relationship is between him and sally?
 * Why do you think that.......?**
 * What do you think will happen......? (ask for predictions of events and characters' actions)**
 * What is happening at the part where.......?**
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">What do you think **__**(event/incident) means?**

Day 5 <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Discussion Director <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**Name: Doug Freyman __Book:__ _** The Catcher in the Rye __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**Your job is to develop a list of questions (and possible answers) that your group can discuss about this part of the novel. Your questions should be ones which require //thought// and get everyone //talking and sharing their opinions and reactions.// The best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Do NOT write questions that call for a simple "yes" or "no" answer or a factual detail!** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Order for Leading Your Group Discussion//** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">1. Call on the Summarizer to read the summary. 2. Pose each one of your questions to your group for discussion 3. Ask for each member of your group to state their comment/questions about this section of the novel. //Lead your group in response to what each person says.// 4. Call on the Passage Master. 5. Call on the Connector/ Artistic Adventurer. 6. You fill out the Group Record sheet, with input from your group members 7. After discussion is completed, assign roles for your next reading and make sure everyone gets a new role sheet, including absent members. 8. Call the teacher over. Be ready to discuss items on the Group Record sheet.
 * Assignment: page 113** __**__to page 149 Literature Circle's Name:__ _**

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__<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think it's because he doesn't like the people who go there. He thinks they're all phonies and they're all full of themselves. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think he didn't go in because he never really knows what he wants. I think it has to do with his mental issues. He'll think he wants something but when he finally gets it, he realizes that he didn't really want to after all. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He thought that the actors ruined it. He said that they were good and they knew it, so they were showing off and that ruined the experience for him. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He represents everything that Holden doesn't like. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He thought she was one of those people who looked nice on the outside but was actually mean at heart. He said she could cry her eyes out over a phony movie but wouldn't let her kid go to the bathroom. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He wants to get advice from Luce because there's a lot of things that Holden just doesn't understand or know how to do. <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Types of Questions://** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**What did you think about......? (name a specific event, action, or character's action)**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">1. //**__**//_Why do you think Holden hates Broadway so much?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">2. //**__**//_Why do you think Holden decided not to go into the Museum when he got there?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_What did Holden not like about the show that he went to see with Sally?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_Why does Holden become angered when Sally starts talking to the guy from Andover?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//_What did Holden think of the lady he sat next to at the picture?//**
 * //6. //** __**//_Why does Holden want to meet with Luce if he doesn't even really like him?//**
 * Why do you think that.......?**
 * What do you think will happen......? (ask for predictions of events and characters' actions)**
 * What is happening at the part where.......?**
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">What do you think **__**(event/incident) means?**

Day 6 <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Discussion Director <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**Name: __Book:__ _** __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**Your job is to develop a list of questions (and possible answers) that your group can discuss about this part of the novel. Your questions should be ones which require //thought// and get everyone //talking and sharing their opinions and reactions.// The best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Do NOT write questions that call for a simple "yes" or "no" answer or a factual detail!** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Order for Leading Your Group Discussion//** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">1. Call on the Summarizer to read the summary. 2. Pose each one of your questions to your group for discussion 3. Ask for each member of your group to state their comment/questions about this section of the novel. //Lead your group in response to what each person says.// 4. Call on the Passage Master. 5. Call on the Connector/ Artistic Adventurer. 6. You fill out the Group Record sheet, with input from your group members 7. After discussion is completed, assign roles for your next reading and make sure everyone gets a new role sheet, including absent members. 8. Call the teacher over. Be ready to discuss items on the Group Record sheet.
 * Assignment: page** __**__to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _**

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<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//1.//** __**//_Why does Holden keep asking Luce about his sex life?//** __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think Holden wants to know how other people are doing with finding love since he is having trouble. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: Holden is very indecisive, he has been in the past too. It may be caused by his mental instability. He will using want to do something and then he "isn't in the mood" anymore. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He probably still wants to show her that he had bought the gift for her. Pheobe will still be appreciative. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think he does because he had called himself a "madman" and similar things before. Other people might finally be seeing how crazy he is as well. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas:He thought he would get sick and he wanted to see her. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He completely lost it. <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Types of Questions://** <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**What did you think about......? (name a specific event, action, or character's action)**
 * //2.//** __**//_Why does Holden change his mind about calling Jane?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_Why did Holden keep the record he bought for Phoebe even after he broke it?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_Do you think Holden is finally sees how crazy he is, what about others?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//_Why did Holden want to see Phoebe?//**
 * //6. //** __**//_Why does Holden keep bringing up the ducks at the pond?//**
 * Why do you think that.......?**
 * What do you think will happen......? (ask for predictions of events and characters' actions)**
 * What is happening at the part where.......?**
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">What do you think **__**(event/incident) means?**

Day 7 Discussion Director
 * Name:John Haja __Book:__ The Catcher In The Rye**

__**Assignment: page**__ **__to page Literature Circle's Name:__ Avengers** __**Your job is to develop a list of questions (and possible answers) that your group can discuss about this part of the novel. Your questions should be ones which require //thought// and get everyone //talking and sharing their opinions and reactions.// The best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Do NOT write questions that call for a simple "yes" or "no" answer or a factual detail!** **//Order for Leading Your Group Discussion//** 1. Call on the Summarizer to read the summary. 2. Pose each one of your questions to your group for discussion 3. Ask for each member of your group to state their comment/questions about this section of the novel. //Lead your group in response to what each person says.// 4. Call on the Passage Master. 5. Call on the Connector/ Artistic Adventurer. 6. You fill out the Group Record sheet, with input from your group members 7. After discussion is completed, assign roles for your next reading and make sure everyone gets a new role sheet, including absent members. 8. Call the teacher over. Be ready to discuss items on the Group Record sheet.

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__Your ideas:He wanted someone to connect with, considering he left school and hasent really talked to many people. __Your ideas:English was his best subject, mabye that's what he felt best doing, and made him feel connected to something. __Your ideas:Salinger must of had some problems to, because Holden has a mental disorder, his old friend jumped out a window, and know his old teacher is a creeper. __Your ideas:He has been to the train station alot throughout the story thats where he was after he left school, and earilier in the story Holden talked about the museum and how he always went there during school and know he goes there for Phoebe. __Your ideas:That was the only thing that made Holden happy throughout the story, the whole time he was sad and depressed, but finally in the end he made a break through and finally showed a sign of happiness. __Your ideas:Yes, because he had alot of friends back at school, and even when he left they were still there for him and wanted to get together, and in the end that is what mad him happy, his sister Phoebe. Also at the end of the story he mentions that he missed all those people he talked about, so another message you could get out of this is to charish the time you have with them because you never know when it will end and when it does your gonna miss it. **//Types of Questions://**
 * //1.//**__ **//Why does did Holden come home early just to talk to Phoebe, but has to hide from everyone else?//**
 * //2.//**__ **//Why would Holden want to call his old english professor for?//**
 * //3.//**__ **//_Why are most of the character's in the story all screwed up?//**
 * //4.//**__ **//_Why does Holden keep going back to the places he kept going to in the begining of the story?//**
 * //5.//**__ **//_Why was it so important when Phoebe was riding the carousel?//**
 * //6. //**__**//_Do you think friendship was a big theme in this story?//**
 * What did you think about......? (name a specific event, action, or character's action)**
 * Why do you think that.......?**
 * What do you think will happen......? (ask for predictions of events and characters' actions)**
 * What is happening at the part where.......?**
 * What do you think**__ **(event/incident) means?**

Discussion Director
 * Name: __Book:__ _**

__**Assignment: page**__ **__to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _** __**Your job is to develop a list of questions (and possible answers) that your group can discuss about this part of the novel. Your questions should be ones which require //thought// and get everyone //talking and sharing their opinions and reactions.// The best discussion questions come from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Do NOT write questions that call for a simple "yes" or "no" answer or a factual detail!** **//Order for Leading Your Group Discussion//** 1. Call on the Summarizer to read the summary. 2. Pose each one of your questions to your group for discussion 3. Ask for each member of your group to state their comment/questions about this section of the novel. //Lead your group in response to what each person says.// 4. Call on the Passage Master. 5. Call on the Connector/ Artistic Adventurer. 6. You fill out the Group Record sheet, with input from your group members 7. After discussion is completed, assign roles for your next reading and make sure everyone gets a new role sheet, including absent members. 8. Call the teacher over. Be ready to discuss items on the Group Record sheet.

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