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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Fyodor Dostoevsky Book Club

For this unit you will be placed in book clubs of four students and will plan out as a group how you will proceed through Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment.

Process:

On each book club day of this unit, your book club will meet for 30 minutes during class to discuss topics of interest in that section of Crime and Punishment.
·       For each book club gathering, one student will type up four discussion questions from the reading for that week.

·       These questions will be provided on one piece of paper and they must be analytical reading questions, two of which must incorporate direct quotes (at least one from the novel).
·       A supplemental “philosophical” reading will be studied prior to the meeting (typically the day before) and I have ensured that each supplemental reading ties directly into the concurrent reading from Crime and Punishment. At least one of the questions must incorporate specific ideas from that week’s supplemental reading.

·       The preselected group leader of that week will lead his or her book club discussion. This group leader will be responsible for taking the “group notes” in response to his or her questions on the printed handout.

Book Club Meeting Blueprint:
Session 1: 1/17        Group leader: ____Mr. Achimore         Part 2 Ch. 2
Session 2: 1/18       Group leader: ______________        Part 2 Ch. 5
Session 3: 1/25       Group leader: _____________          Part 3 Ch. 6
Session 4: 2/1        Group leader: ______________         Part 5 Ch. 1

Session 5: 2/8        Group leader: ___________ __          Part 6 Ch. 3


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