Pre-Book Clubbing: April 24, 2019

Focus: What standards do we need to establish and hold ourselves to for the next 4 weeks?

Please have your signed book club contracts and books on your desk.

1. Warming up with an overview of your final speech and the importance of your book club

2. Recommitting to high standards: 

• Individually: Weekly focus and participation
• With book clubs: Your freedoms and responsibilities

3. Setting your book clubs expectations (please have your signed sheets and books out on your desks):

• Click HERE to revisit what an excellent syllabus looks like.

• Fill out the bookmark: Which reading will be due which days? Who will be in charge of the syllabus each day? Please write this on your bookmark AND in your calendars.

• Get your reading assignments as specific as possible in your Student Calendars. Since you only meet with your club once a week, you need a reminder system for reading every night.

• Create a shared folder called "[Title of your book] Book Club Folder." It should be shared with each member of your group and placed inside your shared American Lit folder. ALL SYLLABI AND CLASSWORK must be placed inside this folder.

• Complete your book club manifesto and place it inside your shared book club folder.

HW:
1. For TOMORROW: Assigned book club reading (start reading tonight!).


2. For FRIDAY: Any revisions / additions to your Gatsby blogs are due; hand back the rubric to me when they're ready to grade.