Virtual Book Club-Two Summer Programs-Completely Virtual

To keep my students engaged in reading and learning, for two summers now I ran a digital virtual book club.  My students would receive a book that I  purchased for them. I created scaffolded detailed weekly book guides to assist them reading complex historical novels.  I created these  book guides in shared Google Documents broken down into  30 pages at a time. These shared Google Documents gave students a step by step guide, essential vocabulary, visual images of the historical references, and maps of specific locations. They were designed for learners who lacked background knowledge and essential vocabulary to successfully and  independently comprehend the reading without this  level of scaffolding. I shared the Google document digitally each week. We agreed to meet at a  specific time and either chatted within the structure of Google chat on the school website as well as meeting on skype twice to chat in digital visibility.

I did not get a salary for this work, as it was completely voluntary. The novels were chosen  by one or two students, who were the ones  who actually  showed up for our book chats. The first  book was: The Book Thief and the second book was  Sarah's Key. Both novels were Holocaust themed novels.

Here are examples of the book guides I created:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/140rm_7dh9pzoobLhoZIVJkGer4nxUQ3-ATeRUHlbl2Y/edit?usp=sharing

The Book Thief-A sample of a week's scaffolded book guide I created to support reading comprehension

This is Summer 2012-Sarah's Key Scaffolded Book Guide I created to support comprehension