Book slam
Book Slam (of English. Book , book 'and to slam slam') is an event form of reading promotion in the sense of a contest.
background
Each participating book is presented for a maximum of three minutes. Two spectators watch over this with a stopwatch and a whistle. After each book presentation, the audience gives a rating from one to ten. A moderator guides you through the event and notes the scores in a table. After the presentations, the points are added up and the winner's book is chosen. At the end of the event, all the books presented will be exhibited so that the audience can look inside.
The idea of the Book Slam is based on the event form of the Poetry Slam . Two basic rules have been adopted from this form of author contest: the brevity of the presentations and the voting by the audience. Book slams are mainly carried out in libraries and schools.
aims
Book slams were developed by Stephanie Jentgens at the Remscheid Academy in the late 1990s as a means of promoting reading for young people. One of the reasons was that there were hardly any methods for the target group of young people. That has changed only marginally to this day. The Book Slam is an open offer in which the audience decides for themselves. The grading results in a role reversal. While adolescents are usually assessed, they can give their own marks in the Book Slam. You participate in the event right from the start. The exhibition of the books at the end of the event not only transports the winning books, but also the books that have not received a positive vote from the group. The Book Slam does not want to provide in-depth information, but only initially arouse curiosity.
literature
- Stephanie Jentgens: From Poetry Slam to Book Slam. In: School in Action. Handbook, Josef Raabe Verlag, August 2003.
- Stephanie Jentgens: Book Slam: Book presentations in a fast run. In German. Teaching practice for grades 5 to 10, Kallmeyer 2008.
- Constanze Michael: From 'Poetry Slam' to 'Book Slam' - New approaches to the KJL and its limits. In: “Sex, Drugs, Violence”, popular literature in German lessons.