This year 8 of the students at the New School worked with the student teacher, Amelia, during the book club for “The Secret Soldier”. This book was about a woman, Deborah, who lived in the colonies during the revolutionary war time period. Deborah wanted to have adventures, so she dressed up as a man and joined the army. This book follows the journey that Deborah has in the army and the struggles that she faces. Throughout the weeks the students were reading this book, they focused on finding key details in the text, making predictions and learning how to summarize. The students were able to watch the teacher perform these tasks, work with their peers while completing these tasks, and with hard work and practice the students were able to write summaries individually using the skills they worked on. At the end of the book, the students’ hard work was put on display using a timeline that was filled with all of the work the students did throughout this book club.