[aisle] High School Book Club

Thu Nov 18 12:00:20 CST 2021

I run a book club at RBHS and some years it's really popular, and some
years it isn't. This year is a popular one (about 10 students at each
meeting). At our first meeting, I asked them what they'd like the book club
to be: we all read the same book (or a choice of 2), we all read on the
same topic/theme/genre, or we read what we like and talk about those. We
have done 2 group reads already and have 1 left before the end of the
semester. The students choose the book(s), but I guide them on choices, so
we've started with reading books from the Lincoln Award nominees to start.

It's been fun so far this year, with so many voices and opinions! I do
purchase extra copies of our reads and then shelve them in a special
section of the library (which is handy for when teachers want to do some
lit circles, a title becomes really popular, or several students all want
to read the same book).

Hope this helps!
Amy Phillips
Riverside Brookfield High School
Library Media Specialist
aebromberg at gmail.com
phillipsa at rbhs208.net
847-722-6169

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:45 AM Jennifer Siemann via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I've done a variety of things for my book club over the years.
>
> One year we selected a book for each semester and participated in,
> assisted with, and ran activities/programs related to the book.  *Forgive
> Me, Leonard Peacock* by Matthew Quick we focused on anti-bullying and
> suicide prevention.  *The Fault in Our Stars* by John Green we focused on
> Childhood Cancer Awareness and collected pop tabs for Ronald McDonald House
> Charities, collected and donated toys for the Pediatric Oncology Treasure
> Chest Foundation, Pennies for Patients, etc.
>
> One year my students completed a "Triple-Threat Challenge" where they
> selected a fiction, memoir/biography, and a non-fiction book to read within
> the year.  All three books had to have a similar theme.  For example, one
> student read *This Is Where It Ends* by Marieke Nijkamp, *Choosing Hope:
> Moving forward through life's darkest hours* by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis,
> and *Columbine* by Dave Cullen.  Another student read The Boy in the
> Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein, and *Born
> Survivors: Three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage,
> defiance, and hope* by Wendy Holden.
>
> Throughout the year we would do different activities, crafts, games, run
> discussions, a fundraiser, book talks, promote reading and highlight books
> we've read.  Every year is different depending on the group of students.
>
>
> *Jennifer A. Siemann*
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> *Subject:* [aisle] High School Book Club
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> I am attempting to start a book club at the high school level.  This is my
> first year in this particular district, so I don't currently have a go-to
> group of students I can tap into getting this off the ground; I'm hoping
> this club will help me foster some strong relationships.  For those of you
> who have spear-headed and lead a teen book club, please drop all of your
> advice in this thread.  My plan is to recruit, promote, and choose our
> first title before the end of this semester and hold our first meeting in
> late January.  Thanks in advance for the advice!
>
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