Title: Literature Circle Forum 3
Course: BC - English 10 - 2.0.2.0

After reading the third section of your novel, complete your third Literature Circle Forum.

The Literature Circle Forums are intended to be informal conversations between you and your classmates. Because of this, you are encouraged to:

- Keep your language informal
- Worry less about perfect editing (but make sure you’re understandable!)
- Keep your response posts short
- Respond to multiple classmates with brief responses
- Carry on the conversation beyond one response

Include the name of your novel in the title of your post.

Your initial post should be between 150 and 200 words, though there is no strict word count. In your post, you could answer one or more of these questions:

- In your novel, are there any difficult moral choices that characters have had to make?
- If they make poor moral choices, what are their reasons for that?
- If they make good moral choices, what helps them to make those choices?
- If you were in a similar situation as one of your characters, what do you hope you would do? What would you actually do?

You could also use one of the following writing prompts:

- Write a deeper-thinking question that will stimulate discussion with your classmates
- Write about any connections you made to the novel, such as memories or previous knowledge that the story brought to mind
- Write any additional historical, cultural, or other background information that you researched that you think will be interesting or beneficial to other readers
- Write about any literary techniques that the author uses which enhance the story
- Write your predictions for what will happen later in the story

Once you have written your initial post, find at least two other student posts to respond to. You should find posts that are from the same novel as you. There is no strict word count for your responses, but make sure there is some substance to them. Just saying, “Nice job” will not help the discussion. Between 50 and 100 words should be enough to make a good response.

When other students respond to your initial post, take the time to reply to them. Keep the conversation going!

Informal Forum Rubric

 | Not Completed | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Extending
 | 0 | 4             5             6              7              8             9             10
Initial Post | Not complete | The post is off-topic, confused, disrespectful, or demonstrates a lack of meaningful engagement. | The post provides little fuel for discussion due to a shallow thought, question, observation, or analysis. | The post provides fuel for discussion through a meaningful thought, question, observation, or analysis. | The post provides strong fuel for discussion through a stimulating thought, question, observation, or analysis.
Response Posts | Not complete. | Responses are off-topic, confused, disrespectful, or demonstrate a lack of meaningful engagement. | Responses are somewhat off-topic and do little to continue the conversation in a meaningful way. The student’s level of engagement is low. | Responses are on-topic and help to continue the conversation in a respectful way. The student’s level of engagement is strong. | Responses are respectful and help to continue the conversation in a respectful, insightful way. The student’s level of engagement is very high.
Total          /10 (averaged between posts)