This week the graphic organizer being used is "Picture This".
If you made your book into a movie, what images would show up on the screen? Picture This is designed to help you visualize and reflect on what you’re reading and then to promote discussion based on the images your book club members record.
Instructions:
1. While you are reading, mark passages that strike you as good material for your sketch.
2. After you’ve read, sketch a significant scene or image from the text in the box. The sketch can represent a literal event in the reading, or it can be more symbolic in nature, but it should be something you want to write about and talk about more in your book club. Don’t worry; the quality of the artwork isn’t the point here. What matters is what you have to write and say about it. In fact, stick figures are fine.
3. After you’re finished drawing, explain how this image is significant in the space below your sketch. Consider questions like the following:
• How did you decide what to sketch?
• Is it something that actually happened in the reading? If so, why was it so important?
• If your sketch is symbolic, what does it represent?
• What did your sketch help you understand about the reading, or what questions did it raise?
• What else do you want to say?
