The signpost theme just shows what is the main idea of the book. We discuss what we think it is and most of the time we come up with a conclusion what the theme is at the end of the video. An example is  down below (video). A tip to do a theme video well is to only stay on what the theme is. Sometimes people talk about different things that have nothing to do with the video.
          This signpost is important in our reading because it can lead to great discussions and it can show the viewers before they read the book what the theme is for that book. The question it forces you to ask is "what do you think the theme is and why?"

       Character Trait with evidence is avery important sign post. This is an important sign post because while you are reading it is good to notice that the character is growing into something that he/she was not before or that the character is changing big time. For example, in my book Becca was a mean and big bully to Anna, when one day Anna's friend Caroline told Becca that Anna really wants to be her friend and not her enemy. Then the next day at school Becca started to act more friendly around Anna becuase she wanted to be her friend too. In the video you would talk about what happened and give evidence about it. Some hints tips or tricks to finding these situations in your readings are to always look back in the book to see if any characters have changed.

This sign post is a very important part of our reading becuase after you figure it out you will probably be able to guess what is going to happen next in the story now that the person is going to be acting different. The question you should ask yourself is how is this going to change the rest of the story?

This signpost is Prediction With Evidence. When doing prediction with evidence you have to make sure you give one of the deepest discussions in lit circles. You want to make sure you give as much evidence as you can when doing this discussion because it is in the name Prediction With EVIDENCE! After you press record in the computer you want to say you prediction first. Then you want to say why you chose this prediction. After those two steps you want to say why this prediction is correct and what evidence in the book shows it. 

This signpost is very important because we are predicting what is going to happen in the book. lets say people wanted to hear your predictions they can.

This sign post is the one that you explain something that keeps happening over and over, or again and again.  To find this in your reading you have to kind of be paying attention to past moments in your book were something, maybe important, keeps happening.  The question that you need to ask for this sign post is you need to ask why does this keep happening? And or will it impact the rest of the book?  You always want to make sure that you are asking a question during your video so that each person can answer it in a new, intelligent way.  A tip to finding this signpost in your reading is to make sure that you are thinking back to other days that you have been reading.  Does this scene feel familiar to you?  Then make a video for again and again!  While you are making your YouTube video you are going to have to explain what keeps happening again and again.  You want to do this so the person that is watching your video won't be confused.  A lot of times this video can go on for a long time, so make sure that yours is really descriptive and you describe everything.
This sign post is important in our reading because without it you wouldn't notice things that keep happening over and over again.  And if this is important to notice (things happening again and again) in the book you might miss something that keeps happening.  For example in my book last time my character kept talking about how she was going to lose her best friend, that would be an again and again because she kept mentioning it.  Another example might be if like an unknown character kept showing up that might be an again and again.  This question that this sign post forces you to ask, before the video, is has this person shown up before?  Do I recognize this name?  And questions along that route.  If you think think that something is going to happen again, like an odd character showing up, you definitely want to pay attention in case this odd character does show up again and you make an again and again video.

        So inferring with evidence is a lit circle sigh post, that when something happens in a book and you think that something is going to happen because of that. So say that someone gets mad at their brother and you infer that he will punch him then that is inferring with evidence. You would go up to our notice and note board and fill in just one square in the inferring with evidence category, and just go and make your video. Some good tips that I have for this signpost is to not mix up prediction with evidence with inferring with evidence because you can easily mix those up.
        This signpost is very important because If we didn't have this signpost then we wouldn't really care about the future of the book because we wouldn't be wanting to infer what would would happen. I really like this signpost because it's fun to get in to, and predict what will happen next in the book. If we didn't do these right then we would look really stupid on the camera, and if we didn't care about it then we would goof around on the video and a act silly.

          One of our signposts for lit circles are the citizenship signpost. With this signpost, you are going to have to make a video with your lit circle group about how the character(s) are showing good citizenship or bad citizenship. If the character(s) are showing good citizenship, you say in your video how the character(s) showed good citizenship and why you think he or she did that. If the character(s) are showing bad citizenship, then you explain in your video why the character(s) were showing bad citizenship and why you think he or she is doing that. If it is hard for you to find good or bad citizenship in your lit circle book, than make sure that you identify when the character(s) is doing something bad with citizenship like not voting or not saying the pledge of allegiance. And it is the same thing with the character(s) showing good citizenship. You find in your book when the character(s) is showing good citizenship like saying the pledge of allegiance or voting. 
          This signpost is important in our reading because it forces us to explain what being a good citizen is and showing good citizenship. It also forces us to identify when someone is not being a good citizen and showing citizenship or when someone is. 

The caring sign is when someone is basically caring for someone or doing the opposite. You can find it by looking for for someone caring in your book. One example of this is in Fox Craft. When Siffrin was teaching Isla how to use Fox Craft. Another way to do this is by looking for the opposite of caring. 

This signpost is important because you are finding finding how a character feels about another character. It forces you to ask yourself how might this make the other character feel about one another.

     The Turning Point signpost is very similar to a climax, as it is the high energy plot after some rising action. This signpost is relatively easy to recognize, because it is the main problem in the book. There can also be some less dramatic turning points that can be found in a book, and some of these examples are different high points in the rising or falling action before the main plot, but normally there is only one turning point. 
     This signpost is important in our reading because it is the main plot, and if we didn't recognize the main plot of the book, it would be pointless!

    In literature circles the students read books, have discussions about them, and then post the discussions on YouTube. There are several signposts that you have to think about with your lit circle group in a video. One of the signposts is Contrast and Contradictions. In Contrast and Contradiction we compare book plots together and see if they are similar or different. We discuss if there are similar things that may be happening in both books. We also discuss if there are different things happening. You compare the book you are reading as a group to books you have read in the past. 
   This signpost is important in our reading because it helps us to make connections with other books and characters. We can also make comparisons between the books to determine what is different. This helps us to understand the differences and similarities between authors. We also discuss how the characters are progressing through the book. It forces us to ask how these two different things happened. 
     

         When you have lit cucles and you don't know if it is competeing emotions is happening think about this is the careter compeating about what to feel. For example when a careter got pushed out of her best friends life and does not know what to think. Then she keeps on changing what to think about like I should be her friend but I should not but I should and so on.
   I think that the Competing Emotions Is important because if we did not have it we would be using a different one for the same thing as Competing Emotions. If you do lit curcles be sure to have a Competing Emotions because it very helpfull to figure out what is happening.

     Have you ever read the MAJOR accomplishments in a book? Well, that is what the Milestones signpost is! Milestones is the part in the book where there is something game-changer that is effecting the book or person

       The Aha moment signpost should occur maybe a couple times in a book and it is one of the classes favorites to do. The aha moment occurs when suddenly the character understands something or find out something important and it makes you want to go, AHA!  It is most likely to happen when there is a conflict or a problem and the story builds up and then the character solves the problem. For example, in Wonder, Augie thinks she is best friends with Jack Will. But on halloween Augie overhears Jack and his friends saying stuff like they would kill themselves if they looked like that and stuff like that. 
       This signpost is huge in our reading, without aha moments, it isn't a quality book. You feel the build you start to get on the edge of your seat, reading louder, and hear it comes....... AHA! The most important part of the book just happened. For the video discussion you have to ask yourself, How might this change things, how might the characters change after this, that's what you have to talk about and ask yourself in the video discussion. It as well, (mostly the big aha moments) happen at the end of the book. Try to get really into it in this video disscussion because the aha moment is one of, if not the most important signpost of them all

        A Full Character Analysis is typically done in the middle of the book or end when we have gotten to know the character pretty well.  A Full Character Analysis is like a description of the characters appearance and character traits. Often times when we do a character analysis toward the end of the book we will say how the character has changed some of their character traits and/or gained new traits. I suggest unlike some groups do you should do this signpost after you've gotten to know the character because some groups do this right after they meet a character.
        Full Character Analyses are important because you can recap some important character traits and show what the characters are like. Without the Full Character Analysis we would just use like a billion Character traits with evidence. 

     A strange occurrence is exactly what it sounds like, a very strange thing that randomly pops up. Like in our book Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms right away it is weird and confusing. Stuart had a grandfather that was a magician and he owned a shop called Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms. He had a box that was sealed tight but once they opened it, it had a bunch of three-pence pennies. He also went to a phone booth and he tried calling someone but (he used the three pence penny) and when he was going to leave, but the phone rang..... But you can't call a phone booth so it made no sense at all. The message didn't help either, it was from the library saying they had his book ready???? You have to use the strange occurrences wisely because you tend to have a lot of them. You usually find them in the beginning to the middle of the book because the beginning is always confusing unless it is a sequel to another book. So you want to keep you eyes open in the beginning for discussions because they are hard to find since you don't really know whats happening so its hard to make a video.
      This signpost is important in our reading because it is strange and you want to talk about it to understand it more. You have to do this because it is harder to find video discussions and easier to find really out of place things. As far as the question you ask it is along the lines of why did this happen to the character. Or why is this so strange and just discuss the strange occurrence.

         This signpost is about why two or more characters are having a problem like if they got into a fight. Another example for this signpost is if something very bad just happened to a a character and effects them in someway. A hint for trying find a conflict in your book is to try and remember if this will effect the character in their future like not going to collage will probably effect your job. Another hint is to try to identify will this conflict effect the character for a long time or for only a day.
​         The question that this signpost forces you to ask is will this effect the character in some way. Another question that this forces you ask is why is this conflict happening and what is causing the conflict.
         A way that this signpost could be better is if it made you ask will this effect the character for a long time.

A dun dun dun is basically where something huge happens in the book, and you have to end off there! For example, when you figure out that a character is dead, and you don't know the reason, then you make a video about a dun dun dun! It could also be a character realizing that he or she is adopted, or that a character just right of the blue, betrayed another character. But a dun dun dun is not a tiny moment that might not effect the characters in the book. It has to be something that you have a feeling will defiantly effect the characters, and the rest of the book. It also has to be like a moment in a movie where the "dun dun dun" music comes on!
          A dun dun dun is important in our reading because it symbolizes a huge moment that may or may not be important to a character. But this signpost is pretty obvious to find in pretty much any type of book, and might answer a question that a character had in the beginning of the book. The question that is forces you to ask is, what happened, and how will it effect the rest of the book and all of the characters. Overall, this signpost is fun to use and will strengthen your reading skills!

Paragraph 1: Write a very clear explanation of the signpost, give an example or two, and share any hints, tips, or tricks for finding these in your reading.

Paragraph 2: Explain why this signpost is important in our reading, and what question it forces you to ask when you identify it.

Paragraph 3: (Optional) Share any ideas you have that could make this signpost even better.

          Hi i'm Ben, and I will be explaining to you the lit circle sign post called Connecting the Pieces. This sign post is for when a character in your book finally realizes something and starts putting it all together. This sign post can happen more often in mystery books because the characters in those books are trying to solve some sort of problem. This is also very important in a book because it makes the book better and gets the reader more into it instead of it being not that good. This sign post is very important because without it you could not do good videos and no mysteries to solve during your read.
          So like I have been saying this lit circle sign post is very important and it really helps people in there videos work together to solve mysteries. If we didn't have this signpost we would not be able o tell others about what we have figured out in the book. Some tips for when you are making one of these videos is to always show your evidence and tell the person what you have discovered and not go talking about something else.

Tough Questions is when a character usually the main character has a question that he or she continues on asking herself.  It might be something that the main character is just wondering about like "How Does A Computer Work" or something that is very important like "Should I Betray My Friends"  Often the