LITERARY CLUBS

Thesis
Literary clubs are important tools to
enhance the creativity of the
students. Through this assignment is
attempt to study the function and
significance of literary clubs

INDEX
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LITERARY CLUB

CONCLUSION

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INTODUCTION

OBJECTIVES
-To give preliminary
understanding about clubs
-To know why it is important

INTRODUCTION
Literary clubs are important tools to enhance the
creativity of the students. School is about practicing to
wrap ones mind around real and complex ideas, those of
fundamental consequence for oneself and for the culture.
what happens in a literary club is, each week children
meet with trained parents and teachers in small groups to
tussle with a piece of literature. They learn to think about
an authors purpose, to develop questions which can be
approached from multiple perspectives, and to value the
richness of the groups thinking.

Q. Literary clubs are important tools

to enhance the ...........of the
students ?
A. creativity
B. effectiveness
C. Reading comprehension

LITERARY
CLUBS

OBJECTIVES
-To understand the concept of literary clubs
-To know how it is effective among students

LITERARY CLUB
The idea evolved when the teacher of a class of
combined third- and fourth-graders shared with me
her frustration about challenging a small group of
highly-gifted readers within her classroom.
Remembering how much I enjoyed my English
seminars in graduate school, I offered to take the
group.

Large
differences
in
reading
abilities are common in a school for
gifted students;
musical aptitude or mathematical
prowess
does
not
necessarily
correlate with linguistic skill.
In this particular class, for
example, there were non- readers
alongside students with a remarkable
ability to read sophisticated material
with ease and sensitivity.

The need to meet a range of abilities was

the initial seed for this program, which
combines
elements
of
aSocratic
seminarandliterature
circleswith
a
structure that flexibly groups students
byability
and
interests,involves
parentsand
thecommunity,
fostersengagementand developsstudentownershipof the process and a school-wide
community of readers.

From its beginnings in that one

classroom (1978) Literary Club grew to
almost 200 students in grades 2-8 working
with all content-area teachers and trained
volunteers every year. Each week pairs of
adults met with mixed-age groups of 6-10
students for an hour. Research strongly
suggests that small groups can have a
significant impact on quality of student
thinking and achievement.
Strictly speaking, literary means only
of or having to do with literature. The
question then becomes, what constitutes
literature?

Anybody of written work can be called

literature you can reasonably refer to the
literature on just about any subject.
However, we tend to use the word to refer to
elevated, serious, written material, most often
fiction, produced for an educated, informed
audience by professional authors dedicated to the
craft of writing well.
(Thats a very narrow definition, but I think it
addresses
the
question
youre
asking.)

This means that the word literary is most likely

to be applied to a written work that meets that
definition.
So, for example, a book by Joyce Carol Oates
will be called literary, but a book by Danielle
Steele will not be.
They are both professional writers and both
are naturally concerned with selling books, but
Steeles books are directed to a popular mass
market and Oates are not; the quality and type
of writing in their books is quite different.

Literary Club training enables the adults to

facilitate the discussion of a story or book.
Their goal is to provide a setting in which
students can engage with a text in a community of
readers who value complex, rich thinking.

Homework assignments are short,

requiring about an hour to complete. A
reading assignment of a short story, poem,
essay or several chapters from a novel is
coupled
with
directions
to
develop
interesting questions for the group to
discuss or a wondering you have.

These student-generated questions act as

windows
to
the
childs
thinking,
perspectives, and feelings.
Unlike the artificiality of Daniels roles,
students are positioned to ask authentic
questions.
In contrast to the Great Books
approach, which places special importance
on interpretive questions, we believe that
meaningful questions are often initially
grounded
in
the
individuals
life
experiences, what is called text-toselfconnections

Why
do
literature?

we

care

about

Good literature shows patterns

against
which
we
can
measure
ourselves, gaining self-knowledge. It
can reveal our individual differences as
people while pointing up our common
bonds.

Q. Their goal is to provide a setting in

which students can engage?
A. with a text in a community of
readers
B. In discussion
C. In activities

CONCLUSIO
N

OBJECTIVES
-To understand the
concept of literary
clubs
-To know how it is
effective among
students

CONCLUSION
Literary clubs are important tools to enhance the
creativity of the students.
Literary clubs play a great role in cultivating
creativity and enthusiasm for literature.
The idea evolved when the teacher of a class of
combined third- and fourth-graders shared with me
her frustration about challenging a small group of
highly-gifted readers within her classroom.
A properly functioning literary club is an asset to
the school.
It contributes a lot to the study of language and
literature.

A properly functioning literary club

is an asset to the school. It
contributes a lot to the study of?
A.language and literature.
B.Social science
C.Chemistry