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//**Artist:**// Your job is to quickly sketch key scenes in the passage you read prior to your meeting and to explain what is going on in those scenes and why you think those scenes are important. You will also need to bring a thinking question to the group, a question that prompts the others to think beyond the facts of the passage. It is also your job to look for places where you disagree with others in your group.

//**Connector:**// Your task is to find three to five lines or short passages that you think reflect good writing or that are key or important to the story. You will copy these passages or lines and explain why you believe they are examples of good writing or why you think they are important to the story. You may also make connections to your life, another book you've read, or any other connection that links the story to you. You will also need to bring a thinking question to the group, a question that prompts the others to think beyond the facts of the passage. It is also your job to look for places where you disagree with others in your group.

//**Discussion Leader:**// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Your job is to keep the discussion going, to make sure there are not silences, not gaps in the conversation. You should come to the meeting with at least five "thinking" questions to ask in case the conversation slows down. These "thinking" questions should be designed to get people in your group thinking about issues and topics in your reading. They should not be "recall" questions that ask for facts from the book. You are also in charge of keeping the discussion focused so that things don't wander too far from the main topic, which is the book.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//**Summarizer:**// Your job is to write and then present a summary of the events that happened in the passage that the group decided to read prior to the meeting. Using your written summary as your guide, you will remind people in your group what the passage was about. In addition to writing and presenting your summary, you will need to bring a thinking question to the group, a question that prompts the others to think beyond the facts of the passage. It is also your job to look for places where you disagree with others in your group.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//**Word Smith:**// <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Your job is to find between five and seven words that are new or interesting to you. You will need to define each word, tell the part of speech (choose the part of speech that is used in your passage), relay the origin of the word, and copy the passage from the book where the word occurs. You will then lead a discussion within your group about why you and the others think the author chose to use that particular word rather than another for that passage. You will also, with input from your group, decide which word among the ones you selected should go up on the word wall and, after your meeting is over, you will make a word tile to put on the word wall. You will also need to bring a thinking question to the group, a question that prompts the others to think beyond the facts of the passage. It is also your job to look for places where you disagree with others in your group.