YHBC October

I had a TON more people this month come to the Young Hoosier Book Club at the middle school--especially 6th Graders.  I think after my sweet video, the teens realized exactly what the book club is.  It's not a "sit down and discuss our feelings about the book" book club.  It's a loud, wacky, sugar-filled book club with activities.  I cram a LOT of stuff into about 25 minutes, and I'm usually exhausted and sweaty by the end, but I am definitely okay with it.

This month, we had The Great Trouble Book club.  This story is a historical fiction novel that touches on the real life cholera epidemic in London in the 1700s.  Back then, they didn't have very clean water or clean living, in general.  They didn't have TV or computers, or even running water all the time.  Because of the dirty way of living, diseases spread rapidly.  Cholera began to spread through one water pipe that a lot of people got their water from.  It just so happened that a woman was cleaning her baby's dirty diaper in the river, and that contaminated water got into the drinking supply.  People died left and right, but a brilliant scientist pinpointed the cholera to its source, they shut the water pipe down, and people were saved.

Here are some pictures from our book club:

We ate hot cross buns, and smelled some dirty diapers!

8th Grade Shenanigans

6th Grade awesomeness

 

7th grade Razz-Matazz!