Book Club

 LI: to unpack the text together

Chris, Lukah, Fau, Sulia, Afatia, Azatulah and I were introduced to the activity, Book Club by Mrs Anderson.  Each member of the book club has a role to take each week. The 7 roles are, The Discussion Director, Connector, Summarize, Passage Picker, Word Master, Illustrator and Meeting Report. The book that we read this week was called “Bok Choy” by Paul Mason. The moral of the story was describing the differences between the Chinese people compared to the Englishman. This was basically unpacking how racism was around those days and how it affected others. From this story we learnt to accept one another despite who we are and how we look. Once we have completed the tasks for our roles, we report back to the group and share our thoughts and ideas. .The Discussion Director’s asked questions and guided everybody to be on the right track. The Summarize, picked 20 most important words from the story, to 6, and used it to summarize the text. The Passage Picker would pick a part of the story and write why it’s important to you. The connector had to make connections to themselves, to text, and to the world from the book. I enjoyed how we shared our thinking and perspectives about the text.