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MIDDLE SCHOOL SUMMER READING LIST (6/15/09)
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All in-coming sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students are
to read the required book(s), listed by grade level. After
reading, complete the following activity outlined in this
handout for the book listed in your grade level with the asterick
(*). This means you will be reading two books but only completing
one activity. Be prepared to discuss your readings with the
class the week we come back to school from summer break. The
activity and discussion are your first grades for the school
year. Do your best and have a great summer!
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EIGHTH GRADE:
* Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
The Giver Karen Hesse
SEVENTH GRADE:
*Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
SIXTH GRADE:
* Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Activities
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8th Grade: Create a digital travelogue of the two
cities in the novel A Tale of Two Cities (London and Paris).
In your travelogue, include the major sites and a brief history
of each city. In addition, include comments regarding the
characters of the novel that relate to the sites you've chosen.
Bring in your digital travelogue to share on our first day
of school.
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| 7th Grade: In your reading
of Anne Frank's diary, you learned about some of the unfairness
and prejudice she and other Jewish people experienced throughout
Europe during WWII. Research places in our world today where
people feel, similarly, the pain of intolerance. Create an Awareness
Poster that visually represents the suffering of the people
in that area and a slogan or two that educates others about
ways they can help stop such hatred. Your research may keep
you here in the United States or take you to other countries
around the world. You may use your own art work, a collage motif
or a combination of both. Be creative. |
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| 6th Grade: In the novel,
Where the Red Fern Grows, you read about the wonderful friendship
between a boy and his dogs. Using colored paper strips of approximately
two inches in width and eight inches long, you will be creating
a class friendship chain that celebrates the qualities of good
friendship. On each link, write a quality of friendship that
you think is important and that is seen in Billy's relationship
with his dogs. Then, on the other side of the paper strip, write
an example of how this same quality is shown in the novel through
characters' experiences. Bring your unfastened links to class
on the first day of school. We will link all together into one
long classroom chain. |
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