If you can giv e us some ideas on how to attract more people and so good ideas on what we should discuss.
Also, if you want to, you can include some books that would be great for discussions and enjoyable at the same timeCan somebody please give me some tips on running an effective book club?
What a great idea! And, to be honest, although I think it's wonderful that you're interested in recruiting more people, bigger may not necessarily be better. For one thing, a lot of people would mean longer discussions, which would mean longer meetings. If you can afford the time, by all means recruit more people. But the book clubs I belong to and the ones my friends belong to usually have less than 10 people in it. It's just easier to hear one another at smaller meetings, is all.
If you want to recruit, try posting a note on Facebook or MySpace about your book club; put up posters in your English class; ask your English teacher if s/he would mind announcing at the end/beginning of his/her classes about your book club.
Some book clubs have it so that each member is responsible for choosing a book to read and everyone ELSE is responsible for coming up with one or two things they want to talk about. That way, every month (or however often you have meetings) every person gets to pick a book and no one person is responsible for provide topic discussions.
A lot of books HAVE reading group discussion guides to them, so that will help you come up with things to talk about and which books you should read.
Oh, and another way to pull in people? Offer them food. Have everyone chip in two bucks per meeting, grab a big sack of chip and dip, and book club away. You'd be amazed at how many people will come for food. :)Can somebody please give me some tips on running an effective book club?
I'm in middle school and I've never been in or started a book club, but some teachers do "Lit Circles" (which I guess is pretty much the same as a book club). They give us book choices, and we're in smaller groups (of about 5 or 6 people).
But if you want more people, you could always put up fliers at your school, give them to teachers to tell the whole class about them ... stuff like that.
As for books, you could find books that about common everyday school problems. One I read in a lit cirle was called "Egghead" by Caroline Pignat. It's about bullying, and I think it was a great book because it showed the point-of-view from the bully, the one being bullied, and a bystander.
I hope I helped, and good luck with your book club. :)Can somebody please give me some tips on running an effective book club?
Im in 8th grade, atm, and one of my teacher is starting a book club, mainly for me and a few of my friends because we all have high levels in english. He picked a central theme (romances through the ages) and that is what we are focusing on. We are going to be analyzing and dissecting great novels like: Pride %26amp; Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and Sense %26amp; Sensibility.
You need to find a common interest between each of the people in your group.
Other books that I guess would be good for book clubs would be:
- Jane Eyre
- Kite Runner
- The Great Gatsby
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Die With Our Families (I just started reading this one.. and its really beautiful - about Rwanda and the series of killings that happened in April of 1994)
Hope I helped.
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At one meeting, make some posters and flyers, I recently went through this at a bible study I made. So make posters, have them announce it on the school intercom, spread it around, tell friends to invite their friends. Good books include, To Kill A Mockingbird, Les Miserables, Blowback, Lord of the Flies, for more literary things, or stuff like 13 Little Blue Envelopes, or Angels and Demons, for adventure and romance. A series is also a good idea to keep them running back for more...good luck.
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