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Book Club
Quick Facts
Advisor Carol VanHook
Meetings
Book Club meets during the school year on the second Monday of the month from 3 - 5 p.m. unless a field trip, special guest lecture during school or community literacy project is planned.
Links
Book Talking With You
2011 Scholarship Winner

This year's scholarship winner is Amber Cole. Read her winning essay, entitled E-books vs Paper Books.

Click here to read essay

Purpose

The SEP Book Club mission is to promote literacy, increase an awareness of cultures and strengthen a life-long commitment to learning and sharing knowledge. Book Club members can be seen at local coffee houses and book stores enjoying fun, food, and fellowship. Students are encouraged to share their voice and opinions about what they are reading.

In 2007, Book Club members journeyed to New Orleans to share $3,000 that they raised in efforts of rebuilding schools and communities damaged by Katrina. In 2008, the members expanded their outreach to Africa. Together with elementary students, the Book Club created a dozen books for children in Africa. Through the books, the Club hoped to aid in global education, peace and happiness. Book Club members also led schoolwide efforts in raising funds for first aid in Haiti.  The Book Club has earned and awarded $2500 worth of Senior Scholarships to five Book Club members over the past four years.

Book Club

“What I Learned from a Book”

The Southeast Polk Book Club is offering a $500 “Dollars for Scholars” scholarship to a Senior in the Book Club. Applicants will need to prepare a two-page essay sharing a testimony on how a single book has impacted his / her life and continues to resonate in his / her life today. Essays are due in the Library by April 1st.

Applicants will select a Pre-school – Gr.12 book that has impacted their life, sharing the life lesson(s) learned from reading this book.  The applicants must provide insights on humorous, significant, or inspirational connections to the events in the story that testify how the book has affected their life in a positive manner. The applicants must address how this book might also impact other readers at different points in their life. The applicants should discuss how they might share--or if they have shared--this book with others.

 

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” (Maya Angelou)

 

The Southeast Polk High School Book Club is selling GO RAMS lanyards in the High School Library.  The lanyards cost $6.00 and could be used for keys or ID cards.  All Sales support a Dollars For Scholars Scholarship. Please call the high school library, if interested: 957-3484.

 

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