Yesterday, it was brought to my attention we should also have an afternoon meeting to accommodate those students who are unable to attend the morning meeting. So I have agreed to have a shortened meeting after school on Thursdays. It was also brought up that the person requesting this may be transferring...
Today's meeting was held 7:45-8:25 am. Donuts were brought by Mrs. Anderson, and drinks by MD. In attendance was Rashad J., Krystelia C., Shanise K., Mareesa D., Ashlee P., and Armando E. An icebreaker activity started off the session, taken from www.litlovers.com/icebreakers.htm, "Alphabet Soup - Working around the room, each member names a character, event, place, or object from the book - the first letter of which starts with A, the next word starts with B, the next word C and so forth through Z. Variation: use the last letter for the next word - a bit harder." We did not need the variation! We had a hard time getting far on this one. Armando E. won today's prize. We had 2 students who completed the entire 100 pages assigned, and about 4 who read 50 pages. We discussed whether to shorten the number of pages assigned, but decided to leave it as it is. We spent some time discussing the main five characters, and the some events from "Vampire Academy" which led up to the events of the first 100 pages. Questions were posed by RJ, which was greatly appreciated, and AE was very helpful in assisting us in story plot. Folders with handouts from "Book Club for Middle School," by Raphael/Kehus/Damphousse: Think Sheets numbers 1 (Questions for My Book Club), 6 (Me and the Book), 5 (Special Book Part), and 23 (Problems/Solution Chart) were passed out to assist in generating future discussions. We won't be having a meeting next week because of TAKs, but we will the week after that, to finish the book.
It was voted to leave this series for our next book. Titles were suggested by AE, AP, MD and SK, and "Vampire Kiss" was selected as our next book.
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