Procedures
(Description of steps you will follow during instruction, always beginning with an introduction and ending with some type of evaluation and closure. This section should be very detailed—the person reading your procedures should be able to visualize what will be going on in the classroom and anticipate potential student responses, given your prompts.)

1. Students will be given cards as they walk into the door.  There will be snippets of the first couple of pages of the novel Siddhartha written on note cards.  The back of the note cards have numbers on them that students will use to get into groups.  This is the “Tea Party” activity from Kylene Beer’s book.
2. Students will be asked to get into groups based on the numbers on the back of their cards.  Do not let them get into groups before you explain the instructions.
3. Based on the note cards that each group has, the GROUP needs to come up with a prediction about what they think is going on in the cards.  They will be told that the cards are related so they need to decide what the story is about, who is in it, what’s going to happen in it.
4. There will be two groups with different note cards (no one in the group should have the same note cards but each group will have the same set of cards).  The groups will be given 5-10 minutes to formulate an idea and write it down.
5. As a whole class we will hear the predictions.
6. I will tell the class that all the quotes came from the first two pages of the novel they are about to read, Siddhartha. 
7. I will tell them the book is all about choosing your own path.  You will have to choose your own path soon.  College, sports, girlfriends/boyfriends.  Some of their choices may not be what their parents want but they will have to decide what to do.  That’s what Siddhartha is about. 
8. We will keep journals and sticky note throughout the book.  The sticky notes will be color coded by what they are for: question, vocabulary, cool scenes, and other.  The journals will be collected once a week and I will respond to them.
9. I will pass out a reading guide.  It will tell the students where they should be daily in order to be ready for class discussion.  At any point we could have a quiz on the material that is supposed to be prepared for the day the quiz is given.
10. Students will be issued novels.
11. Students will need to begin reading and using their sticky notes.