Novel Minds Book Club

$25 a monthly session OR $200 for a ten-month membership

-For middle school and high school students

Our virtual book club fosters vocabulary development and critical thinking. It is grounded in research showing novels more effectively build analytical skills than the short excerpts often used in traditional classrooms today. All of this connects to SAT/ACT prep and college readiness skills. Word exposure is crucial for so many markers for success, and nothing is as effective as reading novels.

The academic goal is to build a relationship with books and to train students how to analyze them like a teacher. The personal goal is to create lifelong readers. It’s not that smart people read, it’s that reading makes you smarter. Reading is a proven stress reliever and one of the strongest ways to strengthen empathy to support social and emotional learning.

The first book this year will be To Kill a Mockingbird in August. It’s an accessible read for middle and high school.

At that meeting, Ms. Boyd will take suggestions to see if other books are on syllabi of participants to map out the book plan for the school year. There will be a survey for topics of interests to match with critical texts. We may also find that we need middle school level and high school level meetings based on numbers and interest.

Let’s take this journey and get smarter together.

Sessions will be the third Sunday of each month from August until May from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.