[ISLMA-Share] Guidance Counselor Book Club

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We made different names for our clubs and eliminated the words "book club"
from all announcements and posters.  Fiction Addiction meets the last
Thursday of the month, while GACME (Graphic, Anime, Comic, and Manga
Enthusiasts) meets every Monday.   When our GSA began reading a book
together each semester through the Counseling Center, it was just announced
as "The GSA is reading..."


Ann Marie Jinkins
Librarian
Rochelle Township High School
1401 Flagg Road
Rochelle,  IL 61068

(815)562-4161, ext. 4112
ajinkins at rthsd212.org

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Good Morning!
>
> Any book clubs run by your guidance counselors happening at your school?
>
> I currently do a book club once a month and it's open to the entire
> student body but my counselor has approached me about starting one focusing
> on books that will open up discussions for her but hasn't decided on how to
> identify members.  I am afraid if she advertises it on the annoucements
> (like I do) it will be confusing to the students.
>
> Anyone else have two book clubs at their school?  How do you handle it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Deanne Guccione, Librarian
> Pleasant Plains Middle School
> dguccione at ppcusd8.org
>
> "Winning is not always about shining the brightest.  Sometimes it's about
> sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in th shadows all
> along." Quote from the book* Save Me A Seat* by Saraha Weeks & Gita
> Varadarajan
> Currently Reading:  The Arrangement
>
> [image: 30841908]
> Just finished:  Paper Cowboy
> [image: 20821303]
>
>
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