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Welcome to the club!

We will be reading one book per 6-week session from the selections below, which are themed for each session.

🗳️ 📖 Please vote for your preferred choice by the indicated closing time - the most popular choice will be the assigned book for the

session.

Learning objectives

By the end of each Book Club session, you will be able to:

1. ﻿﻿﻿Identify, explain and discuss the main ideas of a new text.

2. ﻿﻿﻿Make a critical analysis of a new text and write an academic essay related to one or more themes in the book.

3. ﻿﻿﻿Appraise your own and your peers' written academic output.

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💬 😀 As you read, discuss the book by sharing comments with your peers beneath the assigned book or start a new post with a specific discussion topic. See the screenshots above for instructions on how to comment with text, video or audio, and how to add new posts.

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The main task for each month is to write an essay related to the assigned book. Please choose from the suggested essay topics and upload your finished essay in the

'Learner reviews' section.

💬 😀 Read and give feedback on your peers' essays, and reflect on or respond to feedback on your own work. Please take care to be constructive and polite in your feedback.

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Your tutor will be moderating this forum and will assist with any questions or difficulties that cannot be resolved within your peer group.

Happy reading!

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What is your first choice of this session's books? Vote closes at 5pm on the Thursday of course week 1.

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Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo

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White Teeth is the story of three very different families who live close together in London in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bowdens are part-Jamaican; the Iqbals are from Bangladesh; and the Chalfens white. The story looks at how people’s pasts affect their lives now, and the lives and futures of their children. With carefully

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On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party she is giving that evening. As she walks through London, her thoughts are of the past and her choice of husband. At the same time, and also in London, Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock. At the party that

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Girl, Woman, Other is a powerful novel about race and the lives and journeys of twelve people. It celebrates the importance of coming together to share, love, and take care of each other.

Format: Paperback

Page Count: 112 Pages

Details

Learning materials

Answer Keys and Lesson Plans

Series overview

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

Girl, Woman, Other, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.

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Girl, Woman, Other is a powerful novel about race and the lives and journeys of twelve people. It celebrates the importance of coming together to share, love, and take care of each other.

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1. ﻿﻿﻿An argumentative essay on one or more of the themes in this
Session's assigned book.

2. ﻿﻿﻿A summary-and-response essay on this Session's assigned book.

3. ﻿﻿﻿A critical review of this
Session's assigned book.

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What is your first choice of this session's books? Vote closes at 5pm on the Thursday of course week 7.

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Artificial Intelligence – Michael Wooldridge

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Being an original thinker can change the world. Learn how to recognize a great idea, to speak up for yourself, to choose the right time to act, and to manage fear and doubt by standing out from the crowd. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for

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Artificial Intelligence - Penguin Readers

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This book aims to explain what AI is and what it is not. It turns to different subjects to understand AI, and what it means for the world. It also examines important AI developments in the past, present and future. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin

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Cal Newport is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University in the USA. He has written a number of books on computers and technology. This book is useful for anyone who is worried about the amount of time they are spending online and shows them how to use less technology in their life. With

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1. ﻿﻿﻿An argumentative essay on one or more of the themes in this Session's assigned book.

2. ﻿﻿﻿A summary-and-response essay on this Session's assigned book.

3. ﻿﻿﻿A critical review of this Session's assigned book.

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What is your first choice of this session's books? Vote closes at 5pm on the Thursday of course week 13.

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When the young sailor “Ishmael” decides to sail on the Pequod with the mysterious Captain Ahab, he has no idea about Ahab’s plans to get revenge on the great white whale Moby Dick. Ahab wants to find and kill the whale at any cost – even if it means losing his ship and his crew.

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Winston Smith re-writes history for the Ministry of Truth in Oceania. Big Brother and the Thought Police watch everyone for signs of Thought Crime. But when Winston falls in love with Julia, he begins to have new ideas and hopes. Winston and Julia start to question the world that they live in - but Big Brother does not like independent thought.

Format: Paperback

Page Count: 112 Pages

Details

Learning materials

Answer Keys and Lesson Plans

Series overview

Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, written for learners of English as a foreign language. The series is aligned to the Common European Framework and includes language activities that help develop key skills.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.

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Winston Smith re-writes history for the Ministry of Truth in Oceania. Big Brother and the Thought Police watch everyone for signs of Thought Crime. But when Winston falls in love with Julia, he begins to have new ideas and hopes.

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After eighteen years in the Bastille prison, Dr Manette finally leaves France and goes to live with his daughter, Lucie, in England. There, two very different men fall in love with Lucie. Lucie finds happiness, but in France a storm is coming. Soon, Lucie and her family must face the French Revolution, and one man

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1. ﻿﻿﻿An argumentative essay on one or more of the themes in this
Session's assigned book.

2. ﻿﻿﻿A summary-and-response essay on this Session's assigned book.

3. ﻿﻿﻿A critical review of this
Session's assigned book.

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What is your first choice of this session's books? Vote closes at 5pm on the Thursday of course week 19.

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Half-sisters Effia and Esi are born into different villages in Ghana. The sisters’ lives follow different paths: Effi marries a wealthy Englishman, while Esi is captured and sold into slavery. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling

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Fiona Maye is a successful High Court judge in Family Law, but now her own marriage is in trouble. She is asked to hear the urgent case of Adam, a very sick seventeen-year-old boy who is refusing medical treatment. Fiona goes to meet Adam, and both their lives are changed.

Format: Paperback

Page Count: 112 Pages

Details

Learning materials

Answer Keys and Lesson Plans

Series overview

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

The Children Act, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.

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Fiona Maye is a successful High Court judge in Family Law, but now her own marriage is in trouble. She is asked to hear the urgent case of Adam, a very sick seventeen-year-old boy who is refusing medical treatment. Fiona goes to meet Adam, and both their lives are changed.

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When Nazneen is 18, she marries a much older man and moves from Bangladesh to England to be with her husband. But Brick Lane in London is very different from Nazneen's village, and she speaks no English. Nazneen must try to look after her family and get used to a new, and very strange, country.

Format: Paperback

Page Count: 112 Pages

Details

Learning materials

Answer Keys and Lesson Plans

Series overview

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

Brick Lane, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.

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When Nazneen is 18, she marries a much older man and moves from Bangladesh to England to be with her husband. But Brick Lane in London is very different from Nazneen's village, and she speaks no English. Nazneen must try to look after her family and get used to a new, and very strange, country.

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1. ﻿﻿﻿An argumentative essay on one or more of the themes in this
Session's assigned book.

2. ﻿﻿﻿A summary-and-response essay on this Session's assigned book.

3. ﻿﻿﻿A critical review of this
Session's assigned book.

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What is your first choice of this session's books? Vote closes at 5pm on the Thursday of course week 25.

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carré

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The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith

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A geek, a jock, a criminal, a princess. A murder. Everyone has secrets. How far would you go to protect yours? Five students at Bayview High must stay late at school but only four of them leave alive. Bronwyn, Cooper, Nate and Addy all become suspects in a murder. Who do you believe? With carefully

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Penguin Readers

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Alec Leamas, a British spy, is worn out and ready to stop working. But his boss wants him to do one final job: to spread false information about an important man in East Germany. Can Alec end his career and finally come in from the cold? Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting

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The Talented Mr Ripley - Penguin Readers

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In the 1950s, Tom Ripley travels from the United States of America to Italy, to find Dickie Greenleaf and bring him home to his father. But when Tom sees Dickie’s money and relaxed way of life, he becomes jealous and begins to make other plans. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and

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1. ﻿﻿﻿An argumentative essay on one or more of the themes in this
Session's assigned book.

2. ﻿﻿﻿A summary-and-response essay on this Session's assigned book.

3. ﻿﻿﻿A critical review of this
Session's assigned book.