Book Club: You Think You Know Me

Kontext / Contexte

Book clubs around the world foster a love for literature and create communities of people who share a common interest in fiction. The goal of this Young Adult Literature Book Club at F.use is to introduce teachers to recent publications in the genre and to promote informal exchanges among secondary school teachers in a "Tiers Lieu" setting.

Zielsetzung / Objectifs

Knowledge
The participants will learn about:
- one recent YAL novel published in English and its author per session
- the social and cultural context of the selected work.

Know-how
The participants will be able to participate in lively and insightful discussions and express their ideas and interpretations effectively.

Posture
The participants will:
- communicate constructively and take an active part in the discussions
- establish a support network with fellow teachers to exchange ideas, resources, and best practices.

Inhalt / Contenu

The F.use Young Adult Literature Book Club in English for secondary school teachers will meet regularly, with each session focusing on an in-depth exploration of a selected literary work. Through collaborative reading, discussions, and expertise sharing, teachers will enrich their pedagogical toolkit and foster a passion for literature in their students.

Each session of the Book Club includes the following steps:

1. Introduction: A dedicated Moodle platform provides participants with information about the author and the context of the work. Furthermore, participants are given a questionnaire to contemplate while reading so as to focus their own opinions and to analyze the work.
2. Individual Reading Phase: Participants read the novel at their own pace at home, and complete the questionnaire. Participants must hand in their answers before the Book Club Discussion.
3. Book Club Discussion: Participants share their thoughts on the work, and discuss the appropriateness of the work for secondary school teaching.

In a separate, optional training session, participants collaboratively develop a teaching sequence based on the proposed work.

Arbeitsformen / Approche méthodologique

- introduction to author, context and novel via material provided on Moodle
- individual reading with while-reading questionnaire
- group discussion

Referent, Referentin / Formateur, formatrice

Michel Dohn, professeur

Remarques / Anmerkung

Participants purchase their own copy of You Think You Know Me by Ayaan Mohamud (ISBN 978-1-80370-450-0) Participants have also read the book and handed in their answers to the questionnaire before attending the Book Club Discussion.

You can participate in the separate, optional collaborative think tank by registering for the following training session: "Book Club Think Tank: You Think You Know Me"


Sie erhalten spätestens einen Tag vor Start der Weiterbildung den Zugangslink zu Moodle. Bitte melden Sie sich mit Ihren IAM Daten an, um Zugang zum Kurs zu erhalten. Ein Mikrofon und eine Kamera sind erforderlich, um teilzunehmen (PC oder Laptop, kein iPad oder Smartphone (eingeschränkte Funktionen)). Die Kamera muss während der gesamten Weiterbildung eingeschaltet sein.