Launching of the AES Book Club

The Book Club is going very well, and… very different to what I had planned initially. In fact, it is moving very much away from what we know to be a traditional gathering around a book. Yes, still a book constitutes the center of our learning (now: The Little Prince), but it’s only an incentive to wider explore its themes and discuss them in connection to students’ lives. 

One of The Little Prince’s main themes is friendship and love. Students explore these themes while filming and acting. Of course, we do read, but only the most important fragments. Working on meaningful fragments is a great way to explore a book. Really, not the whole book has to be read. It’s about getting a student interested in a book rather than making him or her read it in full. The Book Club… what fun!

Chapter XXI - one of the most significant, where little prince meets the fox

"To you, I am just a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we shall need one another. To me, you will be unique. And I shall be unique to you," said the fox (quote from chapter XXI).