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  The end of April brings a close to Poetry Month.  I thought I would share this website that can make everyone a poet. It is great for the kids too POETRY FORMS  

Heroes = Heroine

Our discussion last night was an interesting one, as always.  We all seemed to enjoy the book GATES OF THE ALAMO.  The born Texans in the group enjoyed how folklore gave way to realism and the new texans found the history explained quite a a bit about San Antonians.  Elke gave us a review of her trip to the Alamo the day before, making us all say we need to get down there soon. Her news clippings also re-educated us. Our vocabulary was increased thanks to Adrianne. (Elke if you can please list some of the words Addie defined for us in a comment below, I want to remember them) We appreciated Mr. Harrigan’s realistic fictional account of the famous battle for reigniting our interest in Texas history; from those of us who studied it in grade school and have long forgotten it to those of us who learned it when they arrived to the Lone Star state.  

One of our discussion questions was, who did we consider the heroes of the story?  There was an overwhelming agreement on Professor, the trusty canine that endures so much.  Then with all seriousness we also agreed on Mary Mott.  We felt that the story of her search for her son and the love she had for Mr. McGowen was told so well that we felt her pain and persistence.  Another question was, what did not seem realistic?  We couldn’t think of anything. The descriptions of everything from the smells to the long journeys were told so realistic that there seemed little left to the romanticism of the legend.

Here is the document on which we based our discussion, it is all I could find. harrigan_curriculum

Finally, thanks to Teresa for hosting.  We especially loved the Aunty Em’s Kennel Korn!

Please add your comments to this summary of April book club whether you attended or not.  

Let’s toss a few flowers!

  April Book

In the spirit of Fiesta and the observation of the battle of San Jacinto (I believe that is what Fiesta is about), this in the perfect book.  I must confess that it took a bit of a push for me to read it.  Mostly because I’ve never been big on westerns.  But I loved it.     

 

 

2008 Book Titles by Month

Month	Title	Author
Jan	Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen
Feb	Little Love Story	Roland Merullo
Mar	Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Mosseini
Apr	Gates of the Alamo	Stephen Harrigan
May	The Other Boleyn Girl	Phillipa Gregory
Jun	Fallen Angels	Tracy Chevalier
Jul	Devil in the White city	Eric Larson
Aug	Sarah	Marek Halter
Sept	Caramelo	Sandra Cisneros
Oct	Dracula (Signet Classics)	Brahm Stoker
Nov/Dec	Autobiography of Santa Claus	Jeff Gunn

Hello Fellow Readers!

Welcome to our WordPress.com blog. This is our new site for book club.  I thought it might be a good place to post information regarding our book of the month thoughts.  I will not post the detail information of dates and places so our meeting reminders will be continue to be sent out on a regular basis.  Please comment your thoughts or any links you think we might want us to check out related to what we are reading.

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