The+Help

**__The Help - By Kathryn Stockett__**
Lindsay Matalon, Cate Hermans, Cathy Choi, Gina Romana, Hannah Yoo

First Book Club Meeting

 * Group Name: The Experts


 * Reading Schedule:
 * Read by one's pace each day
 * 24 Next Meeting
 * 34 Next next Meeting

We hope to get a better understand of what life was actually like for Negro women in the mid-1900s. We haven't yet learned how their rights have evolved over time, and hopefully //The Help// will give us a better sense of that. We selected the book because we wanted to explore how much society has been changed from people speaking up about certain issues in the past.
 * Predictions and Expectations:
 * What do you hope to get out of this book? What are you hoping to learn or find out?
 * Why did you select it?
 * Exposition:
 * The writer must have wanted to make the story as realistic as possible. After all, she even has Aibileen speak the way she'd actually speak: without perfect diction.
 * Kathryn Stockett must like writing in an old-fashioned style.


 * Club Protocol for the Next Meeting:
 * Next Week: Cathy will bring COOKIEEEEESSSSSSSSSS
 * Each person can have a favorite quote of the week, which will be shared.
 * General discussion question: Each group member can write down a thought-provoking question based on that week’s reading.
 * Group members can bring in the food they would like, maybe even relating to the food in the story!


 * Second Book Meeting**


 * We discussed each of our favorite characters and what is it we like about them.
 * We discussed a fear of Aibileen's and how she viewed her white owners.
 * Next week we will finish the book.
 * Each person can have a favorite quote of the week, which will be shared.
 * General discussion question: Each group member can write down a thought-provoking question based on that week’s reading.
 * Group members can bring in the food they would like, maybe even relating to the food in the story.

Third Book Meeting
 * End of Book Discussion:
 * Thought that the book had a sweet ending, but sad for some characters.
 * In general, we all loved and enjoyed this book.
 * Made history seem more realistic and the book made characters come to life.
 * Entertaining, but insightful.