What a nice turnout for our meeting on Monday. It was nice to actually have some male representation. Hopefully you all enjoyed our discussion and will return for our next meeting on Monday, November 19. This time we decided to choose a theme -- War-- and a feature title - The Book Thief. All students are invited to read the feature title or share thoughts on any title that relates to the theme of war. Some of you mentioned Catch-22 and Suite Francais as titles that you might like to share.
We could get started with some basic focus questions --
While war brings out man's inhumanity to man, does it also serve to demonstrate our humanity? Does war serve a purpose? What war is a just war?
Any thoughts?
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
What Happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles
Our first book for the 2007-2008 NHS Book Club is a psychological thriller "full of suspense that will keep you flipping the pages until well into the middle of the night" (according to Erica) So, let's begin the discussion with your ideas about what the title means. We know the answer to the literal question, but by the end of her experience, what has happened to Cass? Has she been altered? What about David? Why has he killed himself? Who is to blame? What can we learn from this tale?
Monday, January 29, 2007
Female Author Choice
Okay, since we can't seem to get this going on our own, we're going to devote part of our meeting to discussing via the blog. Let's try to get everyone to post a comment about their choice of book for our female author selection. Identify the book and its author, then say a little something about it. After all are posted, let's each try to comment on at least one other person's post. Here we go.....
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