Daily Journal Reflection Questions for Literature Circles
Daily Reflection Questions for Literature Circles: Friendship
Day 1:
1. What is popularity?
2. How important is popularity to you?
3. Can you be popular and not be a good friend?
Day 3:
Day 5:
Describe a close friend. What makes this person so special to you? How did you meet this friend (if you remember). You can describe their appearance, personality, what you have in common or a shared memory.
Day 6:
Describe a perfect weekend with friends. This can be weekend that has already happened, or one that you would like to have. What would you do? Give details.
Day 7:
Day 8:
Day 9:
Day 10:
Using a friendship from your novel as a reference, what does it mean to be a friend?
Why should students your age read this novel? Offer an opinion. Would you recommend this book? Give it a rating out of 10.
Day 1:
- What does it mean to be a friend?
- What was your role today and how did you contribute?
1. What is popularity?
2. How important is popularity to you?
3. Can you be popular and not be a good friend?
Day 3:
- Describe a situation when you experienced INEFFECTIVE team work or a group conflict. How did the situation above make you feel?
- How could this experience have been resolved?
- Describe a time where you or a friend have been left out or excluded from a group.What happened?(If not you or a friend, someone you have seen being left out).
- Describe a situation where you experienced EFFECTIVE teamwork.
- What strategies made the teamwork successful?
Day 5:
Describe a close friend. What makes this person so special to you? How did you meet this friend (if you remember). You can describe their appearance, personality, what you have in common or a shared memory.
Day 6:
Describe a perfect weekend with friends. This can be weekend that has already happened, or one that you would like to have. What would you do? Give details.
Day 7:
- What does it mean to compromise?
- Describe a compromise that you have made.
Day 8:
- What are effective listening skills?
- How have you (and your team) demonstrated effective listening skills throughout this unit?
Day 9:
- What is necessary to maintain a friendship?
- Do you think a friendship can last a lifetime?Explain why or why not.
- What have you learned about teamwork during the Literature Circles unit?
Day 10:
Using a friendship from your novel as a reference, what does it mean to be a friend?
Why should students your age read this novel? Offer an opinion. Would you recommend this book? Give it a rating out of 10.