Title: Job Descriptions and Examples
Course: Book Blogs - Journals for Book Club Discussions (Grades 3-8)

Your "job" is the most important part of your book club assignment. Your job is designed to help you think about your reading.

Each group member has a different job to do each week. You are the only one in your group with your job, so it has to be done before your meeting in order for your group to have a discussion. After each meeting you will trade jobs with someone else in the group, and you'll be able to try a new job.

These job descriptions will help you complete your weekly assignments. Please use the examples as a model for how to create your own blog posts.

Question Captain:
Write down 4-5 good questions that you think your group would want to talk about. Questions should be thought-provoking and open-ended (no simple, one-word answers). Try these starters: Why do you think…?, What will happen…?, If…?, Who…?, How…? Compare…?

Example Post for Question Captain

Excerpt Expert:
Choose 3 important passages (1-3 sentences each) from the story. Copy them down in your blog. These passages should help your group remember some interesting, powerful, puzzling, or important sections of the text. Justify your reasons for selecting these passages. Some reasons for choosing passages to share might include: *Key events *Descriptive *Surprising *Scary *Funny *Controversial *Confusing

Example Post for Excerpt Expert

Character Analyzer:
Select 3 adjectives that describe the traits of some of the characters from the novel, and support your selection with examples taken from your reading assignment.

Each time you write down an idea, be sure to include:

- Character’s name
- Trait (Adjective)
- Specific Example of Behavior/Action (with a page number where it happens in the book)

Possible Character Adjectives: adventurous, artistic, athletic, active, beautiful, belligerent, brave, bold, bossy, cheerful, curious, creative, courageous, considerate, daring, impulsive, dainty, dangerous, exciting, entertaining, energetic, funny, friendly, fun-loving, gentle, generous, happy, humble, hostile, honest, iconoclastic, intelligent, independent, inventive, a leader, lazy, loyal, loud, messy, mischievous, mean, melancholy, mellow, neat, nasty, nice, nosy, open, poor, proud, pretty, prudent, quiet, rich, respectful, sad, silly, sloppy, serious, successful, shy, short, smart, studious, selfish, simple, tall, trustworthy, thoughtful, unselfish, warm, witty, wild (or think of your own!)

Example Post for Character Analyzer

Connection Maker:
Proficient readers make connections to the text as they read. Three main types of connections are text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections. In your post, write about 3 connections you made to the book. The connections can be about how the book reminds you of yourself or an event in your life (text-to-self), how the book reminds you of another book you’ve read (text-to-text), or how the book reminds you of something happening in the world today or in the past (text-to-world).

Example Post for Connection Maker

Image Illustrator:
Create a graphical blog post! You have two options for posting images on your blog.

1. Do a Google image search for pictures that relate to events or characters in the novel. (Remember to use “Strict Safe Search.”) Copy and paste these images in your blog.
2. Create a "glog" and embed it into your post. Use the HTML tab of the post editor to copy and paste the code from glogster.com

Write a brief caption under each image that explains how it relates to your reading. Your images may be about a character, the setting, a problem, an exciting part, a surprise, or anything else about the chapters for this week.

Example Post for Image Illustrator

Be detailed and do quality thinking/writing.