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Novel Discussion, Day Two
Lesson 5 of 17
Objective: Students will be able to discuss a novel by posing and responding to questions, incorporating others into discussion, and presenting their own ideas and justifications.

This classroom routine is discussed in this lesson. Students continue to give thoughtful responses which are useful for their continuing practice and my lesson planning.
Novel Discussion
Students meet with their groups to film and discuss. Most are prepared today; my reminders to be prepared for the groups' sake have proven helpful for several students. Feeling more comfortable with one discussion under their belts, students' talk today is more natural. It may not be so bad to have this extra discussion before our fishbowl, after all; we'll likely see even stronger discussion when we finally see a good example on our next reading day.
Want to start with a model rather than use your students? Check out how I modeled good discussion in this lesson.
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I again give students time to read, knowing that many students won't read at home if they aren't engaged or at least nearly done from reading in class. Students get comfortable and push further into their novels.
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- UNIT 1: Persuasive Writing
- UNIT 2: Finding Themes and Making Inferences in Literature
- UNIT 3: Text Structure and Language Use in Literature
- UNIT 4: Text Structure and Language Use in Informational Texts
- UNIT 5: Finding and Evaluating Claim and Evidence in Informational Texts
- UNIT 6: Purpose Across Multiple Texts
- UNIT 7: Final Exam
- UNIT 8: Research Writing
- UNIT 9: Expository Writing
- LESSON 1: Introduction to Novels
- LESSON 2: Setting Reading Goals
- LESSON 3: Preparing for Discussion
- LESSON 4: Novel Discussion, Day One
- LESSON 5: Novel Discussion, Day Two
- LESSON 6: Novel Discussion, Day Three
- LESSON 7: Novel Discussion, Day Four
- LESSON 8: Novel Discussion, Day Five
- LESSON 9: Finding Themes
- LESSON 10: Novel Discussion, Day Six
- LESSON 11: Novel Discussion, Day Seven
- LESSON 12: Final Novel Discussion
- LESSON 13: Summarizing a Text
- LESSON 14: Supporting a Point
- LESSON 15: Project Work, Day One
- LESSON 16: Project Work, Day Two
- LESSON 17: Project Presentations