What should a Book Club:•Look like?•Sound like?•Feel like?

Book Club Criteria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCpkNnxUxPk

What a Book Club is NOT:

• An example of a book club discussion for The Book Thief

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0et2B-DAuMQ

What a Book Club CAN be:

Constructing Criteria

Now that you have seen what a book club should look like, decide on what the criteria for a book club should be using the following questions to guide you: What role should each person in the book club

have? What should each role entail? Should these roles

change to add variety? What are the essential elements of the novel that

must be analyzed? How can everyone in the book talk participate AND

highlight their individual skills? What are some different ways that you can share

your analysis of the novel as a group? What makes an interesting book club discussion? What makes a book club discussion boring? What will a Level 4+ book club discussion look like?