SEC: Student Book Groups for Credit

[Missa Bergin <missa@MISSABEARS.COM>]

Good morning folks!

Does anyone have any experiences running a student book group that the
students get academic credit for?

Here's the story -
I've been running a casual book group in my HS for a couple years. When
asked where they would like the group to go next year they had two
suggestions - meet more often, and to get credit for it. I explained that
they wouldn't be able to get credit just reading, they would have to do
other activities too, and as one girl put it, "I don't mind writing
something about a book if it's a book worth writing about!"

I am trying to make an argument with my administration to set this up
similar to some of our Independent Study projects, but I am not getting
very far. The biggest hurdle is getting it into the student's schedules so
that we can have some common meeting time. (Because of course these are the
students that have stuff going every hour outside the school day too.)  If
anyone has any experiences doing something like this, or with another form
of "credit" I'd love to pick your brain.

Thanks!

-Missa Bergin, LMS
missa@missabears.com
Niskayuna High School
Niskayuna, NY

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