PUSHING THE LIMITS OF TRADITION
You’re about to explore and discuss the concept of TRADITION. The word can be interpreted in so many ways — all of them probably some version of “a long-standing practice.” As humans, we feel grounded by the familiar. Beliefs, events, even repetitions of certain activities. And that foundation often becomes a springboard to exceeding our current limitations.
Read the featured book below
Watch the tradition-themed featured video
Jumpstart your group conversation with our discussion questions
Pick a new themed topic, and repeat!
FEATURED BOOK
Station Eleven
Discussion Questions
Almost everyone Kirsten used to know became a memory within a few weeks. And technologies like iPhones and cars are also long dead. She does her very best to continue to picture it all, though. She finds that most of her happiness these days comes from remembering...
Available In English & Spanish
COACH BOB
Football Coach
FEATURED VIDEO
Pushing the Limits of Tradition
Coach Bob Boyer is a man who holds tradition in his heart — and also uses it as a tool to improve lives. Bob’s unique coaching style reflects his love of football, his commitment to shaping both the technical skills and character of the...
Watch in English
Spanish Subtitles
Take a look at the other offerings below, curated for this theme. How do people push the limits of tradition in each book
or video?
The joy is in the discovery! Making those connections as you read will enrich your follow-up conversations.
Friday Night Lights:
A Town, A Team,
and A Dream
(25th Anniversary Edition)
Football. Football. Football. It’s not a sport in this Texas town. It’s a culture. It gives rise to the most uplifting and heart-wrenching moments shared by the men, women, and children who live there...
Available In English
Discussion Questions
How to Practice Effectively...for Just
About Anything
Mastering a physical skill requires practice. In other words, the repetition of an action whose purpose is improvement. It helps us perform with more ease, speed and security. But why does practice makes
Watch in Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season
in Arctic Alaska
Available In English
Fourteen boys trudge on through extreme social and personal adversity — and temperatures often in the 50-below-zero range — just to play a game. And to beat all the other players in...
Discussion Questions
The Seed Keeper
Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of their Dakhóta people. After becoming suddenly orphaned,
she's sent to live with a
foster family and meets
rebellious Gaby Makespeace.
Their friendship...
Available In English
Discussion Questions
The Chimes
Available In English
Author Anna Smaill weaves this dystopian tale around the concept of personal and collective memories and how vital they are to our individual wellbeing. And to the continuation of our culture. The characters try desperately to remember their past experiences and traditions..
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The Physician
Available In English & Spanish
When nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother's hand, he could not foresee where this awareness of impending death would lead. He would become apprenticed to an itinerant barber surgeon during England’s Middle Ages, though this is not the pivotal event of his life. It is the surgery of a Jewish...
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