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    This small group session focuses on helping students plan their thematic essays on their dystopian books or short stories. The teacher discusses expectations for the small group work and has students identify themes and evidence from their texts to include in their essays. Students fill out a thematic essay planning sheet and discuss what parts of the text support their chosen themes. They also use their book clubs to locate evidence in each other's stories without directly sharing details. The reflection notes that students are highly engaged in the small groups but they often take longer than planned as students struggle with identifying themes.

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    This small group session focuses on helping students plan their thematic essays on their dystopian books or short stories. The teacher discusses expectations for the small group work and has students identify themes and evidence from their texts to include in their essays. Students fill out a thematic essay planning sheet and discuss what parts of the text support their chosen themes. They also use their book clubs to locate evidence in each other's stories without directly sharing details. The reflection notes that students are highly engaged in the small groups but they often take longer than planned as students struggle with identifying themes.

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    This small group session focuses on helping students plan their thematic essays on their dystopian books or short stories. The teacher discusses expectations for the small group work and has students identify themes and evidence from their texts to include in their essays. Students fill out a thematic essay planning sheet and discuss what parts of the text support their chosen themes. They also use their book clubs to locate evidence in each other's stories without directly sharing details. The reflection notes that students are highly engaged in the small groups but they often take longer than planned as students struggle with identifying themes.

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    Small Group: Week 8 Small Group 1: Feb 23-24, 2023

    Learning Target: I can look at my dystopian book and understand how the theme I chose to explore for my essay affects the book
    as a whole which will be reflected in my Thematic essay planning sheet.

    Time Activities

    2min Ask students to bring their dystopian books or short stories, pencils, the Digging Deeper to Find a Story's Topics
    bell-ringer (if they have it), and the Thematic essay planning sheet to the gray table where we have small groups

    1min State to students the expectations of the small group and other group work today:
    ● We’re not trying to copy the same themes or evidence from our peers, we’re avoiding plagiarism
    ● We can use our peers to check and see if our evidence sounds like it supports our claims
    ● We can use our peers to see where evidence that we’ve thought of is located in the book or short story

    3min Discuss with students what parts of the book or short story they would like to include in their essay for the theme of the
    book or short story they’re writing about and what theme they chose to write about, have students write these ideas on
    their Thematic essay planning sheet

    5min Go over “what makes these parts of the text so powerful?” discussing what evidence can really help students make their
    case for the theme and evidence that supports their theme they’re writing about
    ● Allow students to use book club groups to locate where certain evidence is in the story without asking for the
    evidence directly

    Differentiation: Working as a book club group, asking students scaffolding questions, using peer supports, asking challenging
    questions, using visual aids of Digging Deeper to Find a Story's Topics bell-ringer

    Materials: Pencils, dystopian books or short dystopian stories, Thematic essay planning sheet, small group plan, Digging Deeper to
    Find a Story's Topics bell-ringer

    Prep: Grab extra pencils, look over books students are reading again, create clear expectations for small groups and book club
    groups

    Next Class: Review notes on what students are confused about, reflect on small group instruction from last time, write next small
    group plans
    Reflection:

    Students were really struggling with what a good theme was in certain groups which made our small group meetings take a

    lot longer than planned, sometimes going up to the bell that ends class. They’re actively wanting to be in these small groups even

    when I ask them to go back and think about some of these concepts individually and they’re asking if they get to do small groups at

    the beginning of classes which shows how excited and engaged they are in small groups. I often only have time to meet with one

    group per period because they are so engaged in small groups. While it was helpful when we were reading our dystopian books to

    have another activity that set small groups apart, I’ve found it more helpful to work on the activity that the rest of the class is also

    working on during the time we are in small groups as we begin writing our essays. There are a few students who are struggling with

    the assignments and I think a small group could be helpful for them, especially since they can’t go into Compass, which is our class

    we hold for three weeks for students who are struggling with certain concepts in English, for various reasons. I plan on meeting with

    students who are not able to attend Compass so they can get help if they need finding evidence for their Thematic essays.

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