Book Clubs

Before doing book clubs in our class, I had never participated in a book club. To be completely honest, I thought that only sophisticated old ladies participated in book clubs. All of my teachers growing stuck to the whole class reading the same book, but these book clubs aren’t too different from that. We still get the good discussions and reflections, but I like the book clubs because they’re smaller and each club gets to read a different book. I think book clubs would be a good thing to incorporate in all classrooms, not just language arts. 

The book my book club is reading is Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet, and I think this book would be good for middle school math classes, most likely 6^th grade. It introduces topics about patterns and geometry and it also is interesting to read and not all about math, so kids will like it. Unfortunately, I think there would be some difficulties to be able to implement book clubs in the curriculum. It would be hard to make time for them because the curriculum is so structured and there is already not enough time to squeeze all the material in the school year. I think that doing a book club would be better as an extra credit project. (215)