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I actually enjoyed doing the book cubs in either this LLED class or in our EDMG class. I think book clubs really help make reading easier and motivates students to actually read because you'll need to discuss in a smaller group. If it were a book read as a whole class, remembering myself as a student, many probably wouldn't have read. The student would most likely, or at least students who were like me in high school, just winged the class discussion by hearing others comments and prayed to be either a really good guesser or hoping their are chapter summaries online if there's a test. But for book clubs, you get to choose your own book and somewhat pressures you to read because there is only about 3-5 people in the group. The good thing though is that the discussion isn't pressured. It really feels like you're just having a discussion so I definitely believe it makes the students have a much more enjoyable experience than class book discussion.
I would say though, as a future math teacher, I don't think I would do a book club for class because I don't think there is a huge range of books that would relate to the content we would learn in class, and realistically, I don't think there would be a huge time in a math class based on curriculum to actually spend a lot of time in class to do a book club on a whole book. However, I do like the ideas of maybe book clubs so I would probably do reading groups and get students to discuss about the excerpts or articles or whatever in the small reading groups before I might do a whole class discussion.
In particular with The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, I don't think I would use it for a book to read as a whole class because I might have a hard time actually relating it to content but there are excerpts I could pull out to focus on. Also, I think its a great middle grades themed book where many discipline topics can come up and relate to the students, so I would recommend it more towards discipline and life lessons instead of content related. Overall, I do like the idea of book clubs and recommend it to any content course, but I do think it might be harder to do in a math class. 

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