Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Literature Circle Activities

Facilitate active participation in small-group discussions of science fiction literature with this set of literature circle materials for teaching Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. The following are included: a handout detailing student roles, documentation logs to hold students accountable for their tasks, and a standards-based rubric for scoring student performances. Materials are delivered in both Word Document and PDF formats. By engaging with these literature circle materials, students will do the following:

• Articulate key details from the story
• Generate open-ended questions related to the novel in order to carry out meaningful discussions with peers
• Respond thoughtfully to open-ended questions and others’ contributions to the discussion
• Document ways in which the novel is consistent with aspects of modern society
• Locate specific passages and/or quotations that relate to major themes and concepts such as those relating to technology, space travel, the military, and the value of independent thinking
• Artistically convey important information from the assigned reading
• Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision