Literary Circles #4 - Vocabulary Enricher

This literary circle session was the fourth one, and the end of the fifth round of reading.

Jobs & Pages:
Pages: 142 to 185.

David: Vocabulary enricher.
Aleksa: Literary luminary.
Riley: Illustrator.

About My Job:
My job was vocabulary enricher. I was supposed to find fourteen words that I did not understand, then write them down on a paper along with the page numbers, paragraphs, and the definitions of the words. I did as the directions said. My words and their definitions were:

1. Oracle   ---   A point made by a priest or priestess.
2. Siamese   ---   Similar or closely connected.
3. Scheme   ---   A plan or design.
4. Graciously   ---   Pleasantly kind.
5. Solemnity   ---   Grave, sober, mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, mood.
6. Rockers   ---   Curved pieces on a chair.
7. Grotto   ---   A cave.
8. Chanted   ---   Sort and simple melody.
9. Liven   ---   To put life into.
10. Incredulous   ---   Indisposed to believe.
11. Consult   ---   To seek advice or information from.
12. Crooked   ---   Not straight, curved.
13. Vapor   ---   Visible exhalation, fog, mist steam, etc.
14. Consternation   ---   A sudden or alarming amazement.

Here are five of the words used in their own sentence:

1. Siamese: The two siamese girls agreed on almost everything.
2. Scheme: The architect had created a very interesting scheme.
3. Rockers: The rockers looked even older than the actual chair did.
4. Grotto: When I was half way inside the grotto, my flashlight suddenly stopped working.
5. Vapor: The vapor made it even scarier to walk through the dark alley.

The presentation plan was to read the words to the other group members, then they were supposed to say what they thought the word meant. We did as the instructions said. Although we did not have enough time to do all the words, we did most of them. Sometimes the answers were correct, sometimes they were similar, and sometimes they were not even close on the harder words.

Conclusion:

I think todays literature circles went pretty well. Almost all the group members did they're work fully, and it was enough to have a discussion. We read a few more pages than we have done before, which is good because we will now be able to finish the book for the next session. We did not have time to start reading in class, but we still had a good discussion and did most of our blogs, so it was fine. I think this literary circle session was fun.