I read Agalya in the Spotlight a couple of months ago, and I knew I would introduce it to my book club very soon. It’s a light, easy read, one that I’m sure my book clubbers will enjoy. I’ve read Misfit Madhu with two batches of Read, Write, Explore, and reading a book by an author we’re familiar with is always fun!
Fairy Tales
Rapunzel is a well-known fairytale, one that children are familiar with also because of the movie Tangled. At my book club, we’ll try to do a group activity in which characters from one familiar world meet characters from another. Where would they meet and what would they talk about? Exploring this promises to be fun!
Performing
A book club is never about just reading. I like to link the stories we read to all kinds of activities. Since Agalya in the Spotlight is all about drama, I will ask the children at my book club to perform in class! They can perform anything at all–they could present a poem, play an instrument, sing a song, anything at all!
Write a Play
How do we write a play? What are stage directions, and what is dialogue?
Once we’ve read Agalya in the Spotlight, I will introduce the children to playwriting, and we will try to write a short play of our own.
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