Literary Meeting - Pride and Prejudice

October 12, 2009

Literary Meeting -- Pride and Prejudice

At the beginning of this year, each student and mother was given three bookmarks to use while reading each of the books they planned to study this year. The bookmarks were patterned after the Trivium model for reading novels--Grammar stage, Logic Stage, and Rhetoric Stage, as found in Susan Wise Bauer's book, The Well-Educated Mind.  The first book  discussed at the Literary Society was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. 

 

Here are the front and back of one girl's Grammar stage bookmark.  The Logic and Rhetoric stage bookmarks provide provocative questions which forced each reader to discover her own thoughts about each book. This proved to be much more than just a book discussion, but a time to delve deeply into the heart of each book and person.  Of course students were given the options to share or not to share opinions.  Mothers only shared opinions at the end of our discussions in order to give each girl time to express ideas.

Every society meeting ends in a 'tea' where we eat a dainty lunch and sample various herbal teas.