Paper Towns discussion

I had a really good GMBA book discussion with some high school kids last week. They took home John Green's book to read over February break, and we met with snacks after school to talk about it. They had a lot of good insight, and they all pointed out that John Green does a really great job of writing realistic teenagers. Also, he is hilarious. They all know him because we watch vlogbrothers videos all the time too, so that makes him an extra real person. In our discussion we talked a lot about the ways we can never really know somebody, only our perception of who we think they are. As John Green writes, "'What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person". I also spent some time making a page for my students with links, videos and pictures of references from the books. How cool that they now get to know the Mountain Goats!