Northern Lights Headquarters Book Club
What do we do in the book club?
Join the stimulating club where adults and children enjoy reading and creativity.
Adults participate in literary discussions, read suggested books, and share techniques for efficient reading.
Los niños exploran cuentos bilingües, expresan sus ideas y crean libros cartoneros con materiales reciclados.
We invite the group of participants to read a suggested book together: novel, short stories, poems, etc.
Each person reads it at home, though sometimes they’re encouraged to read aloud some excerpts; but mainly, during the meetings, everyone discusses the pages they’ve read since the last gathering.
The club members also share their various techniques for reading more efficiently and quickly.
Our literary discussions are complemented by various cultural activities such as meetings with authors who reside in the city of Columbus.
We visit book fairs and attend book presentations.
Sessions for adults:
1.- Monday, February 24, 2025, from 6pm to 8pm.
Two versions in parallel:
Version for adults, we will be developing the drama and suspense novel: “Never abandon me” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese writer and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature).
The book will be shared virtually so that they can read it in a timely manner, and we will also see an excerpt from the film, and then proceed to the group discussion.
Version for children, they will be reading a story in Spanish and then work on making cardboard books.
2.- Monday, March 24, 2025, from 6pm to 8pm. Two versions in parallel:
Version for adults, we will be developing the classic novel: “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy (Russian writer).
The book will be shared virtually so that they can read it in a timely manner, and we will also see an excerpt from the film, and then proceed to the group discussion.
Version for children, they will be reading a story in Spanish and then work on making cardboard books.
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Sessions for children
In parallel, we will develop sessions for children, aged between 6 and 14 years old.
Currently, we use a different dynamic, proposing group reading of a short children’s story, preferably bilingual: Spanish-English.
Once finished, the club leader invites them to express their ideas about the story, this with the intention of promoting reading comprehension, and once everyone has expressed their own interpretations, they are invited to translate them into drawings, creating in beginning an original cover and back cover, as well as the design of the interior pages, all using recycled items: cardboard, cardboard, tempera paints, crayons, etc.
At the end, each child should be creating their own book.
This technique is known as the making of Cardboard Books.
Come and join our community, where reading and imagination come together to enrich our lives.
Telephone: +1 224-715-7081
Correo: info@asociaciondeescritoresdeohio.org
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