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Tomorrow, our very first virtual book clubs kick off. The project has been an immense puzzle and also quite a time consumer, and yet, I am excited to see these hopefully take off and help the students not only discuss amazing books but also just be together. We have been apart for more than 8… Continue reading Virtual Book Clubs in Middle School
Last week, we kicked off our second and final round of book clubs for the year. As I shared the titles for this round of book clubs, I was asked a lot of implementation questions. What do they look like? What do kids do? How do you make them successful? And while I have been… Continue reading How We Set Up Book Clubs in Middle School
In room 235D, we have been immersed in our dystopian book clubs. These past two weeks kids have been quietly reading, and loving, their self-chosen texts, using strategies that they have been taught previously, as well as the ones introduced each day, to gain a deeper understanding of the text. Navigating these books as they… Continue reading Partner Feedback Groups – A Tip for Better Book Clubs
We kicked off our dystopian book clubs this week and the students are pretty excited. This genre of books is my favorite, and the favorites of many students, and yet there are also some who have never experienced it. For the past month, we have been actively searching for the titles we would offer up… Continue reading Great Books for Dystopian Book Clubs
Once a year we run our official book clubs here in 7th grade. Very early on in our book club experiences, students had many ideas for how to make them better; please let us choose our books, please let us choose who we are discussing with, please don’t have us write in a packet. It… Continue reading Great Books for Middle School Book Clubs
In 2015, I wrote a post discussing how I was doing book clubs with my 7th graders and how their ideas had shaped our process to be more powerful. Two years later, I look at some of those ideas and see how my thinking has changed and also how much more ownership the student shave… Continue reading Ideas For How to Do Better Book Clubs in Middle School
