Today our 8th grade book club met to talk about The Hound of the Baskervilles. We decided to tackle another Sherlock Holmes novel, so we'll read A Study in Scarlet next. I was looking for some info on Holmes and found that our own University of Minnesota has a large collection of memorabilia. Cool! Check it out here. It will be fun to watch a video of Baskervilles and do a compare & contrast.
Jonathan made fresh apple pie for us. Yum! What an amazing group of young people. Sara's going to bring treats next time. The group wants to meet every Monday so we can talk about the story while we're reading it and not just when it's over.
Some of our favorite words from Baskerville: grotesque, moor, melancholy, Esquimau, dolichocephalic, and baronet (Date: 1614: the holder of a rank of honor below a baron and above a knight, according to www.m-w.com). Most of us really like the British terms!
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