Tai Bailey Capstone

Posted by Tai-Monae Bailey on

For my capstone I did a book club. I’ve always loved to read. Growing up, I’ve been in many book clubs at school where we had to read an assigned book and do activities based on that book.I felt like we were forced to read books that aren't that interesting and in result it wasn’t an enjoyable experience for my peers and I.  Nevertheless for my capstone I did research to see what types of books people enjoyed, once I did that I then created a survey for the people in my book to see which types of books they would enjoy reading. Once I compared everyone's responses I then chose my favorite book “Lessons From a Dead Girl”. The people in my bookclub wanted books that they could relate too, with characters like themselves. They love teen drama and suspense books, which describes “Lessons From a Dead Girl” all the way. My book club lasted for 5 weeks, 2 meetings per week. Each book club meeting consisted of us reading 2 chapters and discussing and analyzing what we read. In our second to last book club meeting we finished the book and I created an activity where we would say which part of the book we would alter to conclude a better ending, since the main character in the book faced numerous adversities. It was interesting because each person had a very different outlooks on the book. I can conclude that everyone really had a great time reading "Lessons From a Dead Girl" and most importantly I had fun being able to read and analyze a book that I love.
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1)Thesaurus.com

This source will help me with writing my novel because it’s basically a website that helps you figure out better word choices . In my novel i can use this website to find words that will fit my dialogue and the tone of story. Also it will help me use better vocab. Some of the characters in my book will need an advance vocab and that will help me.


2)https://authority.pub/steps-to-writing-a-book/

This source is basically a guide to writing and completing a book.  It will give me

Ideas on how to write it and  give me writing strategies to finish the book efficiently and make it actually good .


3) Figment.com

This source is basically a way for people to read what i written and give me honest feedback on it .they can rate each parts of my novel as i continue writing. It’s safe and efficient.


4) Wattpad.com

This source will help me because it’s basically another way for readers internationally to read each part of my

Novel that i have written and give me honest feedback on it.  


5) writingprompts.com

This source is helpful to me and my novel . It’s helpful because whenever i get writers block or stuck on any piece of my writing i can use this site for ideas or whenever i'm unsure about an idea or feel like changing it.


6) https://www.infoplease.com/popular-kids-names

This source will help me decide names for the characters in my story. Since i have to focus on the actual writing part i don’t have time for the names and minor parts such as that . The source will easily give me names and help me not stress .


7)https://www.bookbrowse.com/bookclubs/advice/index.cfm/fuseaction/moderating_meetings


This source basically gives me tips and advice on how to have a productive book club. Sometimes book clubs can get boring or people don’t comfortable enough to share at first but there are so many things I can do to prevent that.


8) https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/teen-book-club

This source helps me because it gives me a million different books that I could use for my book club. Each book they have is very different, which expands my variety on books I can pick for my book club. It gives me the overview and genre of the book and tells me what age groups would best fit this book.


9)https://www.janefriedman.com/writing-ya/

This source helped me figure out which types of books fits best for each age group. Since my book club is going to be sophomores in high school, who are mature for their age I needed to find a balance for them to enjoy and be really interested in.


10)https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/advice-book-groups

This source gives me fun activities to do in my book club. Since just reading for the entire book club meeting could be boring or too tiring, this source gives me fun ideas and activities to do during breaks to wake up the readers in my book club and keep them refreshed and attentive.


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