EDHS & White Pine Book Club

  Kid and Teen Committee Applications Are Open! The Forest of Reading releases summer reading lists for kids and teens that  our Kid and Teen Committees  put together every spring. We invite avid readers in Grades 4 to 6, Grades 7 and 8, and high school to join three separate committees and help build summer reading lists for Canadian kids and teens. Each committee will run virtually through Zoom. If you have an avid reader who is interested in participating, please fill out the application form. Dates for these virtual committee meetings: May 2 – Silver Birch May 3 – Red Maple May 5 – White Pine Apply today!

Hey there!  I'm processing the White Pine book order from the board and should have them ready for tomorrow afternoon. If you'd like to borrow a White Pine book, please email me at rfeick@ugcloud.ca and I will deliver the book to you via your afternoon class (I don't arrive until 10:40).  And now that we're back, please return the books you're finished with. See you tomorrow at 11:30, online. See the EDHS & White Pine Bookclub Google classroom for the link.

The Wild Pick Your Dream Team When Dawn is taken to Out of the Wild, she isn’t able to choose the pack that she is  part of. Imagine you had the chance to bring your own seven or eight person team to  the program. Describe your team.  Who would you bring?  Why would you choose them? What colour would you assign each of them? To Think About... 1. The author talks directly to the reader throughout the novel. What are your thoughts about this as a narrative style? 2. Of the eight pack members in the story, who would you choose to befriend? What influenced  your decision? 3.  What do you think makes a society cohesive? Do you think the bear pack is actually  cohesive?

What Unbreakable Looks Like Pitch Your Dream Cast To Think About... 1. Trust is a large component of the story of Lex.  How does she eventually learn to trust people?  How do you know you can trust other people? 2.  Lex’s story is told in the present and flashbacks. The author reveals parts of her backstory  throughout the novel.  Do you think this was an effective way to tell the story? Why or why not? 3. In your opinion, who is the worst ‘villain’ in the story?  Why? 4. Is What Unbreakable Looks Like  a good title?  Why or why not?  

Nothing But Life To Think About... 1. Hate is an incredibly powerful emotion. Respond to Dills’s statement that he can’t hate Jesse, even after what he’s done. Is this realistic? Reasonable? Why? 2. Do you feel that Dills has received the support he needs to heal from the incredible tragedy that now defines his everyday  existence? Why or why not? 3. Imagine for a moment you were in Dills’s position. Would you go back to Windsor? Why or why not? 4. How well has the family responded to the tragedy, both toward Dills and Jesse as victim and perpetrator, but also in general? 5. The author has chosen to begin the book with a snippet of a poem, “26” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. You can read the full poem at  https://poets.org/poem/26 .  What did you think of this decision to begin with this poem? Do you feel it added to the story?

 The Montague Twins To Think About... 1. Do you believe in magic and the  supernatural? Have you had any experiences that inform your view? 2. Do you find the relationship between the twins, Peter and Alastair realistic? Do you think most families have such easy relationships? 3. Do you think the series title should be The Montague Twins? Charlie and Rowan are equally helpful in solving the mystery – would there be a better series title? What would you suggest? 4. How did you find the art? Do you read many graphic novels? Would you have preferred it to be a non-illustrated novel instead of a graphic novel?  Author Interview (Print) Word Search  (PDF)

Gutter Child To Think About... 1. The world in this novel is designed in a way that creates success for some (Mainlanders) and barriers for others (Gutter people). While “Redemption Freedom” has all of the positive connotations in its words, it is a control measure put in place to further benefit those who have the power and privilege in society. Those who are oppressed face a lifetime of impossible circumstances in the Gutter, where the odds of success are greatly diminished. What are some ways in which the people in these situations endure and/or rise up against this oppression ? 2. “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author. When  lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience a...