Intermediate ESL Book Club - Project Hail Mary
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Rianne Hastie Adams will lead an intermediate ESL Book Club for Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. This book club is best for intermediate English learners. Students will read at home each week. Then we will meet as a group once a week to talk about the story, learn new vocabulary, and practice conversation. Meeting dates: October 16, 23, 30; November 6, 13, 20; December 4, 11. (No class November 27) Meeting time: Fridays 11:30am - 12:30pm Where: Literacy Table Registration is open now! Book club is limited to 10 participants. Books will be provided for registered participants to keep. Please consider your schedule and do not register if you will miss more than one meeting. Project Hail Mary description: Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being ligh
