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 Day 1 Discussion Director __Book:__** Catcher In The Rye
 * Name: Jordan Mosser
 * __Assignment:__** Ch.1-4
 * __Literature Circle's Name:__** Team Purple

__ **//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.

**//Discussion Questions or Topics for Our Lit Circle://**

Your ideas:__ I think that he may not mean it in that way, but rather more of a tool of the hollywood world. Your ideas:__ I think it makes it easier because it is like reading something that you would be thinking inside your head. Your ideas:__ I think it may be a prolonged sickness that older people get, like a bad cold or flu. Your ideas:__ I don't think the narrator wants to go home, but he wants to leave the boys school. Your ideas:__ No, and he is not the kind of guy that would ever want to be popular. __Your ideas:__ He as reminiscing about the time he had spent there and was secretly going to miss it when he left.
 * //1.//** **//When the narrator says that his brother is a prostitute, does he mean that literally?//**
 * __//2.//__** __**//With the style of writing, is it harder or easier for you to get into the story?//**
 * __//3.//__** __**//What is the grippe that the narrator is talking about Mr. Spencer having?//**
 * __//4.//__** __**//Why do you think the narrator hasn't told his parents about getting kicked out?//**
 * __//5.//__** __**//Do you think that the narrator is a popular guy at his school?//**
 * __//6.//__** //__**What was he thinking about after he was sitting there, in the chair, for thirty minutes?**__//

Day 2

Discussion Director **Name: Rachel Watson __Book:__ Catcher In The Rye_** __**Assignment:** __ __ 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.
 * __Literature Circle's Name:__ _**

**//Discussion Questions or Topics for Our Lit Circle://**

__Your ideas: he seems to really care about him and respect him as a person. __Your ideas: I think part of him does because he wont share any information with Holden about there date. __Your ideas: I think he was so frustrated that he lost it and wanted answers about the date. __Your ideas: I think it was for the best he needed to be alone and away from everyone. __Your ideas:He is so emotionally hurt and he feels like a failure. __Your ideas: Because its a joke to him that everyone at the prep school thinks they are perfect. **//Types of Questions://** **What did you think about......? (name a specific event, action, or character's action)**
 * //1. //**__**//_How close was Holden with his brother?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">2. //**__**//_Does Stradater know that Holden likes Jane?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_Why did Holden push Stradater so far to make him punch him?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_Was it really worth it to leave the school a few day early?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//_Why does Holden begin to cry?//**
 * //6. //** __**//_Why did Holden lie to the mother on the train?//**
 * 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:__ _** __<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:__ _**

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Discussion Questions or Topics for Our Lit Circle://**

__<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: yes, because he is constantly thinking about his family and loved ones. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: yes, because he mentions being happy with her. and he acts very lonely in these chapters. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: <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. //**__**//_Do you think that Holden is lonely and desperate?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">2. //**__**//_Do you think that Holden has feelings for Jane?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_Do you think Holden wants to get serious with Jane, or does he like being single and hanging out in places like the Lavender Room?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_Do you think that Holden like to imagine himself as a mature adult?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//_Do you think Holden has trouble dealing with the world around him?//**
 * //6. //** __**//_Do you think he could possibly be in a mental institute now?//**
 * 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: Lexy Hartner. The Catcher In The Rye**

__<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.
 * __Chapters 13-15. Team Purple...__**

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Discussion Questions or Topics for Our Lit Circle://**

__<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: i think he walked because he had alot to think about and wanted to walk everything off. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think that this has something to do with his own personal issues. Especially with us already believeing that he is slightly mental. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: Maybe because he didnt want to get turned down by Jane, so he called somebody he know would assure him something. __I dont think anything is going on other then that they are friends and Sally is Holdens "go to girl" __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas:Probably because he is trying to describe himself as something other then what everybody else is or what they think he is. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think that hes alot of talk and no game.. basically. haha but i think that holden talks alot about prostitues and him liking women becaue it makes him feel like hes good for something but when it really comes down to actually doing something about it hes shy. I also think that hes more focused on Jane then anything. So maybe he talks about getting with all these girls so he doesnt feel rejected by Jane but at the same time shes all he really wants. <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 walked instead of taking the taxi?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">2. //**__**//_What do you think about when Holden thinks about him killing Maurice?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_Why do you think that Holden called the girl Sally instead of Jane?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_What do you think is going on between Holden and Sally?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//_Why do you think Holden reffered himself as a yellow guy?//**
 * //6. //** __**//_Why all of a sudden does Holden not want anything to do with the prostitute? Even after all his talk about him and women?//**
 * 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: Jordan Mosser __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** __**__to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _**

__<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Discussion Questions or Topics for Our Lit Circle://** __

__<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: Definition of swanky- imposingly fashionable or elegant, fancy __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think he can't really imagine what its like to not be able to afford something he wants and can't connect to poverty. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He is very sensitive to people who are fake and feels that actors are like that at all times. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He says it because he feels as though he is better than any guy they would marry, even though he has social problems when dealing with women. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas:Sometimes he says comments that indicates he thinks something is wrong but I think he has no clue there is actually something wrong. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I think that he may be so tramatised by what he saw, that he writes such mild children's books to compensate for 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)**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">__1.__ What does Holden mean when he says a "swanky place?" //**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">2. //**__**//_Why is Holden so focused on the fact that the nuns wouldn't go to a swanky place?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_Why does Holden seem to have something against actors, on both stage and the screen.//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_When Holden is watching the school girls, he says they would all marry dopey guys. Why?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//Holden watches Sally and calls himself crazy for wanting to marry her on the spot. Do you think he knows that he is actually crazy?//**
 * //6. //** __**//_Why doesn't D.B. ever write about the war he was in because, like Allie said, it would give him great things to write about?//**
 * 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:__ _**

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">**//Discussion Questions or Topics for Our Lit Circle://**

__<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: I thought the questions they were talking about made it weird considering they haven't seen each other in a while. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: He doesn't like to be alone so he is always calling people. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: To an extent because he is always at the bar when he is bored. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: because it takes place in the past and it wasn't really a big deal at the time to drink at a young age. __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: __<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Your ideas: <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. //**__**//_ Do you think its weird how close Holden is with old luce?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">2. //**__**//_Why does holden always meet up with people?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">3. //**__**//_Do you think Holden is addicted to alcohol?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">4. //**__**//_How does Holden always get away with drinking alcohol?//**
 * //<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">5. //**__**//_//**
 * //6. //** __**//_//**
 * 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: __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.

**//Discussion Questions or Topics for Our Lit Circle://**

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 * 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.

__Your ideas:Yes, because Allie meant so much to him and he will think about his death every day. __Your ideas:He feels like he is a children in the rye. __Your ideas:So she can always remember him. that was Holden's favorite hat. __Your ideas: he doesn't know many people. __Your ideas:He had a nervous breakdown. __Your ideas:Yes, he was starting to get out of control and go crazy so that was the best place for him. **//Types of Questions://** none //Optional:// a note about this edit for the page history log
 * //Dicussion Questions or Topics for Our Lit Circle://**
 * //1.//**__ **//_Do you think the death of Holden's brother is mainly why he is so messed up?//**
 * //2.//**__ **//_Why does Holden want to "catch the children in the rye"?//**
 * //3.//**__ **//_Why does Holden give Phoebe the red hunting hat before he leaves?//**
 * //4.//**__ **//_Why does Holden always call old teachers, and stay with them?//**
 * //5.//**__ **//_Why did Holden pass out?//**
 * //6. //**__**//_Should Holden have been put in a rest home?//**
 * 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?**

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