Middle School/Junior High Book Club

[Rebecca]

If you host a middle school or junior high book club-

could you share how you run it and choose the literature?

 

(I was thinking of choosing by genre or subject...)

 

I am interested in this as a co op elective- but am unsure how to run it.

 

Thanks!

Rebecca

[daijobu]

I now host a book club whereas before I actually ran it. I pick the books, classics and challenging literature, simply because my dd would rather read light easy reading about girls just like her. I want to expose her to more difficult vocabulary and deeper concepts.

 

Ultimately, it just became too time consuming for me, (I just started a second book club for my younger dd), so I hired an English PhD student from a local university to run it for me at my house. Currently we have 3 girls who meet once a month.

 

HTH!

[justkeepswimming]

Yes! PM me and I can tell you the various ways we've done our book club over the past several years! :) (I'm typing on my tablet right now andit would take me a year to type it all out on this thing... so PM me so I won't forget and I'll reply when I'm on a real computer...) :)

[HollyDay]

We have been a part of a book club in years past. Usually, the facilitator/coordinator chose the book and planned the discussion questions. She would "set the atmosphere" by providing food and (sometimes) music to accompany the genre. Periodically, there might be a craft or art project that would accompany the book. Some form of mapwork was always included. And a discussion of time period, culture, etc. was part of the pre-reading meeting.