Taken from the weekly email sent to all classroom parents:

In addition to reading Number the Stars, your child will be participating in book clubs
this quarter. They will be assigned an additional historical fiction book to read based on
my choice. Your child will be discussing this book each week in a group setting with
other students and a parent who are reading the same book. Some topics that these books
cover include the Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement, Immigration, and
Hiroshima. Your child will be provided with a copy of the text they are reading as well
as a book club packet that they are responsible for completing each week. We will be
spending a lot of time in class discussing the importance of being an active group
member and being prepared for discussions each week. Your child will have hours in
class each week to work on their reading assignment as well as their book club packet.
They may also complete this each night on their reading log as needed. Being that book
club assignments will be a significant portion of reading grades for third quarter, I wanted
to make you aware of this information.