Meetings

Team Meetings

Please plan to meet with your team every 4-6 weeks. Regular meetings to review the books help keep the team on track to be ready for the Final Battle in April. After school meetings should be scheduled for 45 minutes - 1 hour.

It is beneficial to set up a meeting schedule at the start of the program. Duxbury Library meeting rooms can be reserved online approximately two months in advance HERE. Also, it is helpful to set up a book schedule at the start of the program so students can reserve books at the library or purchase their own copy ahead of time.

Below are ideas for your meetings and two sample meeting/book schedules. Each Team Leader decides how often the team meets and the location of the meetings. When assigning books, let the students know they are welcome to read all the books for that month. The more students on your team who read all the books, the more successful the team will be at the Final Battle!

Please remember to have a copy of your team's emergency contact information available when meeting with your team AND remind parents to fill out the dismissal form on the Alden School website about the change in dismissal plans for an after school Battle of the Books meeting.

Meeting Activities

There are so many options when it comes to organizing monthly meetings with your team. We've included some ideas to help you get started.

• Start with an icebreaker or quick game.

• To begin the book discussion, ask students to give a brief description of the book they read. Would they recommend it to another student? Why or why not?

• Print off the questions provided under the grade level tab to help direct the book discussion. (You don't need to read the books!)

• If you are meeting after school, consider bringing water and a small snack for the students to enjoy before starting the meeting.

• Add in a fun activity! Some groups like to only discuss the book while others like an activity to break up the time together. See below for ideas.

Kahoot - www.kahoot.com

Kahoot allows you to create online quizzes to share with your teams, for free. It’s easy to set up and you can create quizzes ranging from general literary questions to specific questions if you have read a book as a group. Many books already have a Kahoot set up! It’s a lot of fun!

Roll & Retell
Team leaders can roll dice and ask team members to answer a corresponding question about the book.

More information on setting up virtual and in-person book clubs:

• https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-set-virtual-book-club-students

• https://www.scholastic.com/parents/family-life/parent-child/start-book-club-kids.html

• https://www.parents.com/fun/entertainment/books/how-to-start-a-kids-book-club/