Mystery
Book Groups (Mystery): January 22, January 29, February 5, February 12
1. Sherlock Holmes (Joel): Josh, Andy, Hayden, Yaseen, Winston
2. Then There Were None (Teresa): Adi, Emma, Dominick, Panda, Bruce, Andres and (Barbara): Benjamin, Betina, Zach, Lance, Elliot
3. The Scorch Trials (Pooja): Kiya, Bitanya, Ariana, Avani, Jamie
4. DaVinci Code (Shilpa): Samek, Aine, Elizabeth, Alex, Maya
Mystery Book Lists
Mystery Book Authors
Agatha Cristie
And Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
John Grisham
Edgar Allen Poe
Book Groups for December-January (2015-2016)
1. Benedicts Society (Trenton Lee Stewart):
Marissa, Joslyn, Alyssa, Yassin, Arin, Violeta
-mysteriousbenedictsociety.com
2. Ready Player One and Armada (Ernest Cline):
Will, Micah, Justin, Yume, Reina, Aidan, Chris, Roseanne & Susan
3. Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle):
Grace, Graham, Dominick, Connor, Manpreet, Gavin, Leo
Soren, Ethan, Nic, Braedon, Molly, Miranda, Joan
4. Angels and Demons
Montana, Mia, Kristin, James(?)
Book Groups for November-December, 2014 (mystery)
1. The Host (Avi, Khael, Theodor, Yorsabell, and Tarek)
2. In the Woods (Aiden, Eliki, Lukas, Sean, Vaibhav, and Maureen)
3. All the Wrong Questions (Addie, Hannah, Maya, Paola, Sebastian, Tom, and Fernando)
4. Angels & Demons (Ali, Gabi, Olivia, Naya, and Julie)
5. 100 Cupboards (Brian, Joaquin, Luka, Tuisku, Juliana, Jax and Lavi)
Meetings:
11/13: finalize book choice and do the "checks" activity
11/20: reading schedule, zip stop, read-aloud
12/4:
12/18:
1/15: (project)
Heumannoids:
2012
Maze Runner: Carter, Vernon, Dominic, Graham, Kevin, Karim (CL)
Pretty Little Liars: Malaika, James, Jenna, Juliann, Chiara (MM)
DaVinci Code: Avery, Audrey, Abbi, Alina, Khoi, Douglas (SB)
Five Little Pigs: Danny, Alec, Claire, Jacob, Justin, Riley (CC)
Hound of the Baskervilles: Nolan, Ian, Sarah, Alison (CH)
2011
The Year of Secret Assignments: Erin, Anya, Marissa, Karina (Shelly McCarthy)
The Curtain: Ted, Amanda, Zahra, Josh, Owen (Mrs. Shen)
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism: Alex, Jeremy, Cade, Jessica, Erica, Matt (Suzy Fredrickson)
Benedict's Society: Jana, Nina, Ciara, Abby, Christian, Cameron (Sonia Kao)
Murder on the Orient Express: Joshua, Samir (Mrs. Schmidt)
Your Heart Belongs to Me: Ibrahim (Mrs Schmidt)
Ring of McAlister: Evan, Kevon, JoMo (Mrs. Schmidt)
StuCrew:
2012:
The Vanishing Game: Jamie, Camila, Rachel, Angelina, Frances (BB)
Paper Towns: Gunnar, Frankie, Josh, Harrison, Dean, Nakiyan (DS)
And Then There Were None: Kyle, Nate, Mason, Nikolai, Anthony, Leon (DB & DA)
Across the Universe: Rana, Keiko, Kiyasha, Stephanie (ME)
Down the Rabbit Hole: Alexis, Isaac, Tomer (MM)
2011
Benedicts Society: Cody, Nick, Laura, KC, Connie, Johnny, Parker (Amy Pawell)
Paper Towns: Martin, Elijah, Kyle, Rory (Rose Borst)
Across the Universe: Christian, Izzy, David, Rebeca, Ashley, James, Matt (Sabra Underwood)
Wuthering Heights: Chloe, Sasha, Norma, Veerali, Jenna (Carla Breunling)
Maze Runner: Devin, Devon (Heather Bolei)
The Messenger: Luis (Rose Borst)
Book Club Meetings:
2012: Meetings are on 5/15 and 5/29
The assignment for this book is the creation, administration, and scoring of a quiz about your book.
Each person should use Google forms to make a 10 question quiz
that involves a variety of question types (multiple choice, fill in, sentence answer, open ended).
Post your quiz as a link from your name on the group's section of this G-doc, which is also shown below (you have access via your mydiscoveryk8 account).
Online Resources:
The Mystery Cube: enter information about a mystery and print a cut-out to make a cube.
Book Recommendations:
Agatha Christie book (perhaps "A Murder is Announced", "Nemesis", or "Murder on the Orient Express").
"The Lying Game" by Sara Shepard
"The Vanishing Game", by Kate Kae Myers.
Bad Things Happen, by Harry Doyle
The Bee Keeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King, a local, well-regarded author.
Intelligent, independent, young woman as protagonists with intriguing story lines and fairly rich language.
Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
The Maze Runner by James Dashner