We will read this text in class, while your student independently reads another dystopian novel as part of the unit study.

• Each student is paired with either The Maze Runner by James Dashner or The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Students will have a physical book as well as an ebook and audiobook through their OneNote class notebook
• Each novel has a schedule that spaces the reading out over six weeks
• 10 minutes at the start of each class Monday-Thursday is provided for reading
  
• The rest of the week's pages along with a short assignment are completed outside of class.

• Each student will complete a short assignment on their own each week that is due Friday
• All students will work through the same six assignments, but on different weeks
• Assignments and assignment schedules can be found in the OneNote class notebook - paper copies will be provided for day users or those without internet
• Exemplars of each assignment can be found in the class notebook and on the teacher's website

• Reading and assignments must be complete by Friday - work should still be complete and viewable in the student's notebook even if they are absent
• The purpose of the assignment is to give the student something to share as part of a collaborative discussion with their peers
• Students reading the same text will meet in small groups each Friday to share their work in a book-club-style meeting
• Because work needs to be complete for discussion to happen, there will be a penalty of 20% the first time work is not complete and 50% for each time after

• Discussion Director - creates 5 discussion questions for the group
• Reporter - gives a description of the setting, plot, and characters
• Connector - finds comparisons between the book and the real world such as their own background knowledge or experiences, other books, movies, or television shows, or things they learned in history class
• Word Wizard - selects three unfamiliar words in the text and their meaning
• Illustrator - creates a visual aid in the form of an image, thinking map, or graphic organizer and two comments

• Each one of the six assignments is worth 30 points each for a total of 180 points across the project.
• Credit is given based on the quality of the work and how specific the work is for that week's reading
• Students should interact with each other based on the group work rubric

All pages should be read and assignments completed for small group meetings each Friday. After each group meets, the group will spend the remainder of class developing a board game based on their novel.

• Project to be completed 100% in class
  
• Teacher will provide all materials
• Project has a six week schedule with items to be completed each week
• Total project worth 100 points
• Instructions can be found in the OneNote class notebook and on teacher's website
• If student misses more than one Friday, they will have a paper assignment to make up the points