Applied Practice 2006 Summer Book Club

Discover New Classroom Reads!

Join Applied Practice and educators from across the country in our "From Page to Practice" Summer Book Club. Engage in three sessions of insightful discussions about compelling works and discover innovative strategies for integrating these texts into your curriculum. Each session is designed to foster interactive discussions and practical applications, ensuring you leave with valuable insights for your classroom.

The Summer Book Club is free and open to all ELA educators.

Special Offer: Attend all three sessions for a book and receive an exclusive packet filled with enriching lessons, practice questions, and more for your classroom!

Language Selection:

• Book: Bibliophobia: A Memoir by Sarah Chihaya- Blending memoir and criticism, Bibliophobia examines what it means to read—and what happens when reading fails to save us. Sarah Chihaya reflects on her literate life and how encounters with canonical texts shape both identity and depression, while offering a nuanced critique of literature’s limits and its place in our lives. Personal narrative and critical analysis operate together as argument, inviting students to interrogate assumptions about reading, value, and meaning. Her lived experiences provide fertile ground for exploring voice, ethos, and the relationship between experience and interpretation.
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• Dates and Progress:
  • - June 10, 6:00 PM CT: Discuss the first third of the book (half hour session)
  • - July 8, 6:00 PM CT: Continue the conversation (half  hour session)
  • - August 12, 6:00 PM CT: Final discussion and strategies for classroom integration (one hour session)

Literature Selection:

• Book: Ædnan: An Epic by LINNEA AXELSSON - Spanning generations of the indigenous Sámi families in northern Scandinavia, Ædnan: An Epic traces the long arc of displacement, cultural erasure, and survival through a haunting, minimalist novel-in-verse form. Axelsson’s lines offer a powerful example of how poetry can carry historical narrative. For literature teachers, the text invites rich study of structure, perspective, voice, and time-as-setting while expanding the canon to include Indigenous European perspectives often absent from traditional curricula. It’s a compelling choice for exploring how genre shapes meaning and for exposing students to something they have likely never seen before.
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• Dates and Progress:
  • - June 10, 6:30 PM CT: Discuss the first third of the book (half hour session)
  • - July 8, 6:30 PM CT: Continue the conversation (half hour session)
  • - August 12, 7:00 PM CT: Final discussion and strategies for classroom integration (one hour session)

Additional Details:

• 🔘Sessions are free to attend, but participants must purchase or have access to their own copy of the book.
• 🔘By RSVPing for the first session (June 10), you will automatically be registered for the July 8 and August 12 sessions.
• 🔘Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each session. Participants must attend all three sessions to receive the resources for the book.

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