The first AES Book Club meeting

Last Tuesday, 4th of February, the first AES Book Club meeting took place. Seven students attended the Book Club. We began with a game "Who am I?" which enabled us to smoothly slip inside the world of literature. Each student thought of a book author, book character, or a book title, wrote it down on a yellow sticky note and stuck it to the forehead of a person sitting beside. These were the passwords that we came up with, words that drew us into the literary realm:

Passwords to literature

We then attended a "book sale". From a pile of a variety of books each student chose the one that grabbed his or her attention. The "book sale" showed how each one of us has a different literary taste and is drawn to different books. We learned that personal intuition serves as a good guide in choosing books we like most.

Attending a "book sale"

We concluded by reading letters written by renowned authors to their fans. Below is a famous letter from C.S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia) to his godchild Lucy:

My dear Lucy, 

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realised that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can take it down from you upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. 

C.S. Lewis

Next week students will read their own letters to authors of their choice. We will begin reading a famous poetic tale "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. 

Re-discovering The Little Prince

You are more than welcome to join the Club!

- MS