TEACHERS AS READERS

EERC'S TAR GROUPS

Book Discussion Groups
Sponsored by EERC and ORA

Guy Lee Elementary Group

19 members
Meets 6 times per year at members' home
Average attendance: 10-14
Facilitator: Gayla Clark

Anil's Ghost by Michael Andaatje
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadimen
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan by Will Ferguson

Joanne Johnson Group

25 members
Meets 4-5 times per year at members' homes
Average attendance: 10-16
Facilitator: Joanne Johnson

The Professor and the Madman and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
These is My Words - The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine by Nancy Turner
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Page Elementary Group

8 members
Meets 4 times per year at a restaurant
Facilitator2: Carole Sterry and Debbie Gray

The Color of Water by Frank McBride
Personal History by Katharyn Graham
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts

 

Saint Paul Elementary Group

11 members
Meets 4 times per year at school
Average attendance: 8-10
Facilitator: Sister Janet Marcisz

5 titles of nonfiction children's books
Group meets to discuss way to use book sets in their teaching.