ICALC 2019Summer Book Club ended successfully. This is the original intention of our Book Club. Later it was widely praised. A lot of students in the first and second grades joined. We have to increase multiple age groups and time periods.

Social Book Club is aimed at students in grades 3-7, and the discussion will focus on the story itself and readers’ feelings. Each time the teacher will lead students to read different content, which can be poetry, fable and novel. The purpose of Social Book Club is to increase students’ vocabulary and cultivate students’ interest in English reading. The teacher will teach words and pronunciation as well as basic reading skills. During the reading process, teachers will join activities such as role-playing to help students understand the reading materials and increase the fun. Every time, there will be questions for students to discuss and let students express their opinions freely.

 Academic Book Club is aimed at students in grades 8-12, and the discussion will focus on the storyline, character design, humanities and historical and cultural implications. Teachers will lead students to read stories, novels and Shakespeare plays. The purpose of Academic Book Club is to improve students’ reading comprehension and literary appreciation ability. Teachers will lead students to explore, discuss and even debate some profound literary themes, which will lay a foundation for the study of English classes in higher grades. When reading Shakespeare plays, the teacher will play some video excerpts to help students understand.

All reading materials can be found on our Google Classroom. You can log in at 5rn50ir .

Week 5 8/17/2019:

Hello everyone, this week is the last week of our summer book club, the specific arrangements after September will be updated in the group again, thank you

The reading material for this week’s Academic Book Club is “Rules of the Game,” This reading is not too long. The author is Amy Tan, a Chinese American writer. Some of the stories she writes will be read by G11-12 students. , But this is not difficult for her other works, we will discuss the main content of the article and the cultural connotation behind it together

This week Social Book Club, G5-7 (2:45pm session and 4:30pm G5-7 group) reading material is “Names Nombres,” a short story about names,‼ ️This is a bit challenging compared to the previous few weeks of reading. I hope some younger children can read it in advance, which will be very helpful for our discussion on Saturday

G1-2 at 4:30pm will read “Hansel and Gretal.” It is also a very famous Western fairy tale. We read this fairy tale in the “Miss Awful” reading of academic book club last week

4:30pm G3-4 group will get reading materials on Saturday

⏰Small reminder: please come to the children to print the reading materials in advance and bring them over, thank you all

Week 4 8/10/2019:

Hello everyone, this week’s academic book club’s reading material is “Miss Awful.” Although this reading is relatively long, it is not difficult. When we discuss on Saturday, we will take you to the last week’s reading material “Charles” for analysis and comparison

This week’s Social Book Club, G5-7 (2:45pm session and 4:30pm G5-7 group) reading material is another Greek mythology “Persephone and the Seasons.” Greek mythology is very interesting, and it is very interesting for later Western literature The impact is very large, I hope to lead everyone to read together to increase everyone’s knowledge and literary appreciation ability

4:30pm G1-2 will read “The Story of Mulan.”

This is our reading material: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Skkcgzrr-v_Ie6RroFo_oRFry-vPwfL5?usp=sharing

I marked the session time on it

4:30pm G3-4 group will get reading materials on Saturday

⏰Small reminder: please come to the children to print the reading materials in advance and bring them over, thank you all

Week 3/8/2019:

The reading material for the Academic Book Club this week is “Charles.” In the next two weeks, we will do a synthesis analysis of two different short stories.

This week Social Book Club, G5-7 (2:45pm session and 4:30pm G5-7 group) reading material is the Greek mythology “Pandora’s Box.” I hope the children will like it.

This is our reading material: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Skkcgzrr-v_Ie6RroFo_oRFry-vPwfL5?usp=sharing

4:30pm G3-4 group and G1-2 group will get the reading materials on Saturday, thank you all

Parents’ perceptions

Today at the book club, I heard a part of the children feel so happy. From Pandora’s box, Teacher Sophia connected the Chinese zodiac signs with the 12 Greek gods. 

Another group of teachers Ruthann talked about a Greek god of road from mount olympus, (her parents’ house is just below the foot of the mountain), and the two teachers talked about this mythological story to attract the children’s attention.

The 3rd and 4th grade group read today is the origin of the national statue, and it is also a very vivid story plot. 

Another academic club brought by Sophia teacher, read Charles today, from the literary perspective and from the top and bottom to infer the students through the three-page question to learn in-depth study analysis

Thank you teachers for your hard work, especially Sophia’s 3 sessions in a row, very hard

Second week 7/27/2019

Hello everyone, our Academic Book Club starting at 12 this Saturday will read “The Lady, or the Tiger.” This short story is very good from a literary appreciation point of view, but the Vocabulary in it may have a little Difficult, children can read it in advance. According to the situation of the first meeting, I found that everyone’s reading level is very high, so this week should be no problem discussing this

In the Social Book Club that starts in the afternoon, at 2:45pm and 4:30pm, G5-7 children will read “Thank You Ma’am.” This is a medium difficulty, suitable for children with a certain reading level to discuss

This week, G3-4 children will read The Skeleton Key, and teachers will also take some small reading exercises with them.

Week 1 7/20/2019

This week’s reading of the Social book club is Andersen’s fairy tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” and the reading of the Academic book club is a gift from O Henry’s short story Maggie. Social book club will be divided into groups. Although the children’s reading materials are the same, the angle and depth of discussion are different according to the children’s grade and reading level.