Book Clubs

One thing that I have found interesting about the book club that we have been doing, is that our book actually goes better with a different subject than the one that it was pitched for. Hidden Figures was pitched as a book that would be good for a math class, but as we have been reading through it, it seems like it would fit better for a social studies class to talk about civil rights and women’s rights. However, your team of teachers could get together and assign this book as a reading to discuss multiple subjects, which I think could be a fun way to incorporate the book club in all of the classes. For social studies it is heavily weighted with civil rights and women’s rights issues that can be discussed in class. For science, there are a lot of physics references that could be discussed. And for math you can also talk about the math involved with the physics as well as some of the other mathematical references (although there is less than we thought there would be.) It could be a fun way for students to read a book for all of their classes and discuss in each of them, how it applies to each subject and dive deeper into the class content that is in the book. My area of emphasis is math and I don’t think that I would do a book club in my math class, but in other classes, I think that it would be great. I like reading and discussing the content with my groupmates and I think the students would enjoy it also. Plus, reading is good for students and if we can create a fun book club assignment and let them pick the books (like we did in class), I think they will be excited to read the book and hopefully have fun doing it which could be beneficial in them developing a love for reading. Also, allowing them to see how the class content is relative in the real world. My other area of emphasis is social studies, and I think that I would use it in that class because certain books could be heavily weighted with material that lines up directly with the curriculum material.

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