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What Are We All About?
Book club groups can use the prompts in this handout to discuss their group's identity, purpose, and message.
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Taking Charge of the Discussion
This handout describes the different roles that students can take on during their book club discussions.
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Routines for Getting Started and Wrapping Up
This handout provides routines that book club groups can use during meetings to get the conversation started and to say goodbye.
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Compelling Questions for Book Club Discussions
Book club groups can choose from the questions on this handout to help guide their conversation during meetings.
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It's All About Perception
This handout leads book club groups through an activity that focuses on the idea of perception.
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Inhabiting the World of the Book
This handout offers creative ways for students to explore the world of their book while pursuing their own interests and passions.
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Get Organized! Make a Book Club Schedule
Book club groups can use this handout to create a reading schedule, so that everyone knows which pages they need to read for each meeting.
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Book Club Meeting and Reading Calendar
Book club groups can use the blank calendar in this handout to keep track of their meeting schedule.
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The Great Migration and the Power of a Single Decision
Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of the Great Migration, the outpouring of six million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to cities in the North and West between World War I and the 1970s.
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What Reading Slowly Taught Me About Writing
Jacqueline Woodson invites us to slow down and appreciate stories that take us places we never thought we'd go and introduce us to people we never thought we'd meet. She recalls the role that storytelling plays in connecting humans.
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Strategies for Parents & Teens: Back to School
Support your teen as they navigate the start of the school year.
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