Novel Minds Book Club
High School Meetings
$30 a monthly session
OR
$300 for a ten-month membership
Third Sundays of the month
7:00-8:30 for high school students
Middle School Meetings
$20 a monthly session
OR
$200 for a ten-month membership
Third Sundays of the month
6:00-7:00 for middle 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 for high school kids.
For middle school students, we will be starting with Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
At the first 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.
Let’s take this journey and get smarter together.
I am Jose Ortiz and a Systems Engineer at Intutive Machines. I had the privilege of being one of Ms. Boyd’s student during my junior year at Victory Early College High School. The books and lessons that I read and were exposed to forever shaped my understanding and education. I highly recommend her for your children’s ELA consideration. She already has students who have sent landers onto the moon. Who knows what she may inspiring with your kids!
