Novel Reading and Discussion - Piecing Me Together, by Renee Watson

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In this course, students will read the novel, Piecing Me Together, by Renee Watson, a story of a young woman trying to find her way through many of the issues that are unique to our current national climate as well as to children and young adults with many of the same experiences. 

Topics to be discussed are: Racial Diversity in America, What does Privilege Mean to You?, Reading Literature and Responding with Intention, Labels and Self-Esteem.

Each week, students will be provided with guiding questions to answer with their assigned readings to discuss during the next class session. Students will do most of the reading on their own, but will have their own devoted time to voice their own opinions and reactions to their readings. I will request that students submit their guiding questions answers each week for my review and responses.

The course will consist of my overview of the reading from the previous week, general discussion on themes from the reading and then each student will provide their own brief summary/impressions/questions from the reading for everyone to consider and answer or discuss.

I will provide guiding questions each week for students to review and create written responses for them to use during the following class and to submit to me to review. I will also preview each week's readings with a brief book talk at the end of each class session.

Schedule:
Week 1 - Introduction to the novel, Piecing Me Together, with a mini-lesson on literary terms students should be familiar with during the 8 weeks that we are reading and discussing.

Weeks 2 - 7 - These weeks will all follow the same format: 
1. Brief overview of the reading that was completed during the week leading up to class. 
2. Teacher introduction of themes from the weekly reading.
3. Student round-robin discussion on their thoughts, interpretations and thoughts on discussion questions.
4. Brief teacher preview of next reading assignment and distribution of new discussion questions.

Week 2 - Discussion of Chapters 1-9, Character Discussion and initial impression of the novel.
Week 3 - Discussion of Chapters 10-20
Week 4 - Discussion of Chapters 21-32
Week 5 - Discussion of Chapters 33-42
Week 6 - Discussion of Chapters 43-56
Week 7 - Discussion of Chapters 57-69
Week 8 - Discussion of Chapters 70-76, Final Discussion on the novel as well as class review on the main themes present, in their opinion.

***Chapters are short, fast reads...some are only a few sentences to a few pages.