One of the things that’s so cool about contemplating the “unconventional classroom” for a year, is thinking of all the things we can do with our kids that we wouldn’t possibly try to tackle during a typical school year. A “family book club” is one of the cooler ideas we came up with!
What is a “family book club?” Quite simply, it is a list of books we are all going to read together. Each person will be able to read the book with their own Kindle Reader and then we can discuss each book as part of our daily routine. The twins are going to skip the book club and use Duck, Duck Moose apps while Wescott, Yve, Otto, Cliff and I participate.
I enlisted my sister, Kaarina, who is a high school English teacher to help us put together a book list that would be appropriate and fun for the whole family. We tried to pick many different types of books…some classics, a few recently published titles, non-fiction, fiction, etc. We deliberately picked some titles that thematically went with some of the places we are visiting. Finally, we tried to pick books that not everyone had read, which is tough since Yve has read everything.
The next step was to see if we could get the books on the Kindle. By now it seems like every book SHOULD be available on the Kindle but there are still a lot that aren’t including classics like Catcher and the Rye…..oh well…scratch that one….
We have roughly 45 books in our booklist and downloaded on our Kindle readers. We may use them all or we might come home having only read half. We aren’t going to stress about it but I thought some of you might be interested in a random sample of a few of the titles..
- 1984
- Night
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- The Giver
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- The World’s Strongest Librarian
- The Color of Water
- The Voices of Marrakesh
- A Girl Called Problem
- The Last Lecture
- In Defense of Food
For those of you who want to go crazy and see the whole list, feel free to “friend” me on Good Reads (http://www.goodreads.com) and check out my “to-read” list. My profile name is: Misopiso.
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