Book Club Update Nov 3

Good Morning everyone:)

Thanks to all my book club members who collaborated so well in  their first Elluminate classroom.  I was so proud of you all for sharing via chat, and microphone so eloquently and respectfully.  I was also thankful that God provided in the way of technology working, which sometimes can be a challenge:)  

 Some of you had not completed Pilgrim's Progress, and I encourage you to keep reading and sharing via Collaborize Classroom or this blog.  As we get to know each other I pray that you will be able to encourage each other as we journey together in this wonderful place called HCS Book club. 

Laura and Samara have kindly offered to write a book review on Pilgrim's Progress, and I look forward to sharing them on the Book club blog under reviews. 

The decision was mutually taken that I would get gift certificates for prizes from Itunes and Amazon to award our students who do a good job writing reviews, sharing their poetry or  presenting their books well.

I will announce the winners for this round at our next meeting!

We had some wonderful book suggestions for the coming year.

Here is the list and the book at the top will be our first read, based on the most votes this time around.

1.  A Wrinkle In Time.
2.  Shadow Spinner
3.  Where the Red Fern Grows.
4.  From the Mixed Up Tales of Mrs Basil Frankweiler.
5.  To Kill a Mockingbird.
6.  Africa
7.  Eragon
8.  Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne.

Date for next meeting:  I know this does not give us much notice but many of our students could not make the following week in Dec 14.  If you cannot make this Wednesday at 4pm please let me know?

Meeting date:December 7th.

BOOK we are reading A Wrinkle in Time. 

Have a wonderful month reading and sharing:)

God Bless,
Mrs Pippa

Elluminate Link

HI Everyone,

Please note we will be using the same Elluminate link for each book club session.  Here is our link for your future use.

https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7345&miuid=454067823AE00E4FCDC88C3EF27B903E

Please make sure you file it safely and follow the participant guidelines on the tutorial page for LearnNowBC.

Let me know if you would like a free trial to see if it works with your headset etc.


Blessings
Mrs Davies

Launch date for Junior Book Club

Hello Everyone,

We have a launch date in sight!  November the 1st at 1pm,  is when we will officially start up our group.  I am very excited that we can start reading our first novel and I welcome your sharing on this blog or on our Collaborize classroom.

Our first book is Pilgrim's Progress and the free Ebook is ready for your use:)

Please register on our Collaborize Classroom, and share your thoughts!  I look forward to meeting you there and chatting, as I have posted a question already.  You will need to sign in and then I will approve your membership and you will be good to go!

I look forward to meeting you all online!  So far we have 7 students signed up and I will send out an Elluminate session link soon.

Blessings
Mrs Pippa

Welcome to Junior Book Club 2011/12

Hello to all book club members for 2011/12.  I am very excited to launch our junior book club for the year and would like to share a little bit about how book club will work :)

When and Where do we meet?  Starting up again in mid October we will meet every 6 weeks on a Wednesday night at 7.15 pm via Elluminate.  We go right through until the end of May.  Sessions last for about an hour..sometimes a little longer.  You need to do the participant Elluminate tutorial to become part of our group, and most of our students learn at the first session:) 

What do you need?
A good microphone headset, and time to read the books and come to meetings.
A public library card or access to a library to borrow books.
All books are reviewed by myself, and "clubbers",  for suitability and enjoyment for both boys and girls.

What do we do?  We chat about books, pray for each other and discuss literacy, suggest new books, read and celebrate our creative writing, and generally get to know each other:)

PLUS
This coming year there will be prizes at each meeting, and an author reading somewhere in the year!

I want to thank all my previous book club members for blessing me this year with amazing conversation, along with their supportive parents who encouraged them to fulfill their literacy goals.


Here is the list of possible reads for next year!  Students will get to vote from this list for this year.  We will start with Pilgrim's Progress as our first book, and once you have emailed me of your interest you are encouraged to start reading.  Please note the free ebook version below.

Fahrenheit 451.

Pilgrim's Progress.   Free E book.

Silverwing.  Kenneth Oppel.

Call of the Wild.  Jack London.

Moby Dick.  Herman Mellville.

Owls in the Family.  Farley Mowat.

The Mistmantle Chronicles

Treasure Island. Robert.  Louis Stevenson.

Mixed Up Tales of Mrs Basil Frankweiler.  El Konigsberg.

Stormbreaker.  Anthony Horowitz


We will be using this blog as our launching pad, and I hope all book clubbers will be able to contribute their book reviews or communications via the blog.  .  Maybe they want to start their own blog and share their own reading as well:)  All meeting times and updates will be posted to this site.  If you have a student in grade 9/10 please contact Kathy Strebchuck kstrebchuck@onlineschool.ca and for grade 11/12 please contact April Mcleod amcleod@onlineschool.ca

Have fun reading this year!!

God Bless
Pippa Davies