Over the past week and a half, I have been given the chance
to join a book club with a small group of students in my classroom. This is the
first time I have participated in a book club. Overall, I have enjoyed my time
in this book club. The work is mostly independent work which then gets brought
back together when you meet up with your group, but it is still a low-risk
setting which I really like.
My group chose to read, Hoot, a book about a town building on top of the living space of a
certain breed of owls. After reading through the book, I have decided that it
would be a great book to read in a science class. It has a lot of content that
could lead to great discussion of ecosystems and how they work, and how they
can be destroyed. It also allows for individuals to make an individual connection
to the text because they see certain things, like the events that happen in the
book, around them on a day-to-day basis. I do like the idea of using book clubs
in a content-area classroom because it promotes literacy in a class that people
do not usually think about literacy in when it is mentioned. If I were to use
our book in a science classroom, I would be sure to only pick and choose
certain excerpts from the text because other parts of the book can throw
students off track, but I would definitely promote reading the rest of the book
on their own time because it is great.
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ReplyDeleteI also thought our book club was low-risk. Whenever I had to read books in high school there was always some huge quiz or test we had to take that questioned specific details of the books. I really enjoyed how we go to make sticky notes with our own thoughts about the books. Also, I agree that if I were to use books clubs in my classroom, then I would find specific excepts that would supplement my lessons.
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