Happy April! Last year we celebrated Poetry Month by posting every school day in April. This year we’re still featuring poetry in our schools, but here at bctela.ca we are going to focus on a different series. The Association of Book Publishers of BC (@abpbc) has launched a fabulous celebration of local publishing and has […]
Book club Twitter chats – my strategy
submitted by Kelley Inden (@ksinden) I figured I would share how I go about participating in a book club chat on Twitter. My guess is that there is a better way, perhaps even ‘an app for that’, but here is how I do it. Please feel free to pass along your own wisdom in the […]
Preparing for the #bctelabook club chat
This Sunday brings our first book club twitter chat about a work of fiction. Chatting about Medicine Walk will be a different experience from our previous chats about professional texts. As you finish the novel and prepare your thoughts for sharing, consider these prompts and provocations: How might stories have the power to heal, in […]
In-Person Book Club Chats
Medicine Walk’s richness in themes and ideas may need more room for discussion than twitter can offer. In honour of Wagamese’s work, as well as our varied learning styles, BCTELA executive members Celia Brogan and Pamela Richardson will host a get-together for a BCTELA book club discussion prior to the twitter chat on March 8th. All […]
Persona Spoken Word Poetry Event
BCTELA is happy to share this exciting event with you: The Surrey English Teachers’ Association presents Stepping Outside Ourselves: the Persona Spoken Word Poem Performance & Workshop with Lucia Misch & Johnny MacRae FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015 NEWTON CULTURAL CENTRE 13530 72nd AVENUE 9:30 AM TO 1:00 PM “Stepping Outside Ourselves” is a spoken word […]