Literature circles

We did literature circles in my American literature 2 class this week. Normally, I love literature circles because we did them in Young Adult Lit but in this specific class I did not really think that it worked. We were not in even groups which meant for my group, who only had 4, that one person had to do multiple jobs. It was helpful to talk over the novel in my small group but when we came together as a class it did not work. We did not really go through every job or topic we came up with. This taught me that literature circles are a really useful tool but they require a lot of organization and teacher direction. In my class the students just kind did whatever because we are in college but I did not feel like it was a useful way to down our time.