2008 Summer
Grades 1-12
AP English Grade Summer Reading
Required: The
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Notes
from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Wide
or
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Assignment:
Students are to maintain a
summer reading notebook with entries for each of your selected books.
This notebook should contain the following information:
Although this seems like a
very easy summer assignment, this material will be vitally important
during the coarse of the year. You will be writing about these works of
literature beginning the first week of school. Make sure you bring
your notebook to class on the first day. They will be evaluated on
that day. Don’t begin the year with a failing grade in English!
Have a wonderful summer and enjoy your reading. I look forward to seeing
you again in August.
Required:
Plus one of the following:
The Good
Earth by
Girl with
a
All Quiet
on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Assignment:
In your Writer’s Notebook you should record the following information
for each of your summer reading books:
·
Title and author
·
General description of setting including any
particularly vivid imagery that appeals to you
·
Character description of major characters including
their relationships to other characters
·
At least five “golden lines” from the book which
you find particularly powerful and which you might want to use for a writing
topic later in the year
·
A minimum of three responses at least on page long
each
Required: Hound of
the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Man for All Seasons by
Robert Bolt
Plus one of the following:
Brave New
World by Aldous Huxley
Frankenstein by
Dracula by Bran
Stoker
Assignement:
Students are to maintain a
summer reading notebook with entries for each of your selected books.
This notebook should contain the following information:
Although this seems like a
very easy summer assignment, this material will be vitally important
during the coarse of the year. You will be writing about these works of
literature beginning the first week of school. Make sure you bring
your notebook to class on the first day. They will be evaluated on
that day. Don’t begin the year with a failing grade in English!
Have a wonderful summer and enjoy your reading. I look forward to seeing
you again in August.
Required:The
Catcher in the
Lord of the Flies by
William Golding
Plus one of the following:
Adrift by
Steven Callahan
The House
on
Way to
Rainy Mountain by M.Scott Momaday
Assignment:
In your Writer’s Notebook you should record the following information
for each of your summer reading books:
·
Title and author
·
General description of setting including any
particularly vivid imagery that appeals to you
·
Character description of major characters including
their relationships to other characters
·
At least five “golden lines” from the book which you
find particularly powerful and which you might want to use for a writing topic
later in the year
·
A minimum of three responses at least on page long
each
Required: The
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Plus one of the following:
The
Hobbit by JR Tolkien
The Once
and Future King by T.H. White
Skystone by Jack
Whyte
“Julius
Caesar” by William Shakespeare
Assignment:
Students are to maintain a
summer reading notebook with entries for each of your selected books.
This notebook should contain the following information:
Although this seems like a
very easy summer assignment, this material will be vitally important
during the coarse of the year. You will be writing about these works of
literature beginning the first week of school. Make sure you bring
your notebook to class on the first day. They will be evaluated on
that day. Don’t begin the year with a failing grade in English!
Have a wonderful summer and enjoy your reading. I look forward to seeing
you again in August.
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Devil`s Arithmetic
Jane Yolen |
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The Giver
Lois Lowry |
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Animal Farm
George Orwell |
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Each student has been given a
writer`s notebook in which they should respond to each assigned book.
There should be a minimum of 5 entries per
book. There is no specific length for an
entry. Each entry should be titled as to which book is being addressed,
what portion of the book, and the date of entry. Students may comment
on something in the book that they found interesting or on how they relate to
the characters in the book. Any idea that is sparked by the book is
acceptable. Additionally students should feel free to begin adding
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Students should also prepare a
list of ten vocabulary words that may or may not be new to them or their
classmates. Students should define each word and note the book and page
of the book where the word was found. |
Required: When
Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Holt
Plus two books of their choice
Assignment:
·
Read some poetry.
Find one poem that “speaks” to you.
Put it as an entry in your journal – title, author, date, and copy
the poem itself.
·
Read When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, by
Kimberly Willis Holt.
This is a story about one summer
in Antler,
As you read and respond, think about your own reaction if Zachary
Beaver arrived in your hometown this summer.
Be certain to date and title your journal entry.
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Read at least 2 books of your choice. You may choose a book you’ve wanted to read,
ask a friend for a recommendation, ask your parents about a book they remember
as a classic, ask a librarian for a suggestion, ask your friendly bookseller,
or ask me.
As you read your choices, think about how these books might relate to
your life or the lives of your friends and or family. Respond to this book in your journal.
As you
read and respond to these books, begin to develop your journal writing
style. Be careful to date your entry and
write the title of the book to which you are responding at the top of the page.
6th Grade Summer
Reading Requirements
Reading
requirements:
Required reading- If you have already read these please read them again this summer.
1. Holes- Louis Sachar
2. A Wrinkle in Time- Madeline L’Engle
3. Option book- You are also required to read one other book of their choice that is either autobiographical, a biography, or non-fiction.
Writing
requirements-
You are required to keep a “writer’s journal” during the summer. This journal should be the one supplied to you recently by Mr. Marchman. If you do not have one use a standard, hard-sided journal notebook commonly found in office supply stores. The most common ones are have black and white colored sides.
Students should have a minimum of one entry per week in their journal. I would like to see a minimum of 10 entries for the summer. Each entry must be one page long at least. You are encouraged to write more than the minimum requirements.
Entries should relate in some way to the following areas:
-Their novels that you are reading
-The world around you as you
experience or see it (*A writing prompt
sheet is attached.)
How to do it:
1. Date and title all of your entries.
2. You may write more than one entry a day, but only one entry per day counts towards your minimum of 10 entry requirement. All entries at least one page long.
3. Do not write entries in your journal that talk about what you did that day like a “log” does. Don’t write entries that tell what happened in a book.—boring!!!!!
Your journal is a source for you to write and explore your feelings, how you see the world around you, and it is for “you.”
3. All journals will be turned in on the first day of school and will count as writing
grade in English.
6th
writing requirements and prompts
1. Pick a character and write about that character. Does he/she/it seem “realistic?”
Do you identify with them? Are they like anyone you personally know? What do you like or dislike about them?
2. Write about a scene- Describe what you find interesting about it...write a poem about something in the scene, an object, person, place, feeling.
3. Write a poem about something inspired by the book
4. You could draw a picture of a person in the book, or a place, or something that strikes you as interesting. Draw it in your journal and then write about what it is or why you chose to draw that picture. How does it tie into your book?
1. Think of something you have done this summer that you really enjoyed and write:
-“why I liked it so much...what really mattered to me”
2. Write about a new experience that you had this summer. Maybe you learned how to slalom or barefoot ski! Maybe you tasted red peppers for the first time... write about that “first” time experience. What was it like....describe it in detail. How did you feel about it?
1. Do you think you’ve changed much since you were little, say a third grader? Do you look different? Act differently?
2. Do you have a pet? Spend 15 minutes quietly observing it. Don’t let it watch you watching it...be sneaky. What did you learn about it? Now if it sleeps for 15 minutes pick a time when it is up and about to write about!
3. Did you have any strange or unusual “coincidences” happen to you this summer. I remember one summer when I saw a man wearing the Boy Scout shirt of a childhood friend of mine...The strange thing was I was in a foreign country and had been out of Boy Scouts for 20 years! The man could not speak a word of English and I didn’t speak any Spanish! How did he get that shirt? Write about unusual experiences that you have this summer.
4. Pick a movie you have seen this summer. What would you do to make it better? What scenes would you change if any. Don’t want to change any scenes? Then what made it your favorite movie?
5. What month of the summer is your favorite month? Why? Tell me more than “ I get to go swimming at the beach....” I need more. What is so great about that month?
6. Summer TV- If you could take one character from a television show out to eat, who would you take? State the reasons for your choice.
7. Can you think of someone who isn’t famous who has inspired you? Explain how this person has inspired you?
8. Have you ever become friends with someone who didn’t treat you nicely? Why did you do this? (Was this person more popular than you, better looking, etc.?)
9. If someone this summer offered you a million dollars to swim at Sea World in a tank with a great white shark for five minutes would you do it? Why or why not?
10. Write about something that was “funny.” Something you saw, heard, experienced etc...Why was that funny to you? Try to recreate that funny feeling about that experience as you write about it.
13. Take any place you are going to and get ready to do the following:
Take a card with you and write down the first “smell” you come across...then write down a note about an interesting person you “see”, then write down a note or two about a “sound” you hear. When you get home put it all together and write about your “place.”
Required: Far North by Will
Hobbs
True
Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
SUMMER BOOK LIST FOR ENTERING FIFTH GRADE
Barnstormers series, Phil
Bildner
Beardance, Will Hobbs
Bearstone, Will Hobbs
Carole
Marsh mystery series [mysteries set in places around the
Dear America series
Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes, Louis
Sachar
**Far North, Will
From the Files of Madison Finn
(series), laura dower
A Girl from Yamhill, Beverly
Cleary
Hardy Boys series, Franklin
Dixon
Hatchet, or The River,
Gary Paulsen
The
Indian in the Cupboard stories, Lynne Reid Banks
The Kid in the Red Jacket,
Barbara Parks
The Klondike Kid series,
Deborah Hopkinson
The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe and others in this series, C.S. Lewis
Love, Ruby Lavender, Deborah
Wiles
Matt Christopher series
The Miraculous Journey of Edward
Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
Nancy Drew series, Carolyn
Keene
Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade,
Barthe DeClements
On the Far Side of the Mountain,
Jean Craighead George
Our National Parks mystery
series, Gloria Skurzynski, Alane Ferguson
Sideways Stories, Louis
Sachar
The Sisters Grimm, (3 book series), Michael Buckley
The Spiderwick Chronicles
(series), Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars
Survival stories by K. Duey & K.
A. Bale
The Tale of Despereaux, Kate
DiCamillo
**True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle, Avi
Which Way to Freedom?, Joyce
Hansen
Wringer, Jerry Spinelli
**Indicates required title. You must read
reading prior to 5th grade.
SUMMER BOOK LIST FOR ENTERING FOURTH GRADE
**Required
Title: The Wreck of the Ethie, Hilary
Hyland
You
are invited to read as many books as you can over the summer. This is a list of
suggested titles.
Addie’s Long Summer, Laurie Lawler
Adaline Falling Star,
American Girl
series, Addie and Samantha in particular
The Best School Year
Ever, Barbara Robinson
The Cabin Faced West,
Jean Fritz
Carole Marsh mystery
series [mysteries set in places around the
Dear America
series
Matt Christopher series
Hardy Boys
series, Franklin Dixon
How to be a Perfect
Person, Stephen Manes
Lewis and Clark and
Me, Laurie Myers
Little House
series, Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Mouse and the
Motorcycle and other titles, Beverly Cleary
My America series
Nancy Drew
series, Carolyn Keene
Once Upon America
series
Otherwise Known As
Sheila the Great, Judy Blume
Our National Parks
mystery series, Gloria Skurzynski, Alane Ferguson
Skinnybones
(series), Barbara Parks
Stuart Little, E.
B. White
Titles by :
Beverly Cleary, Roald
Dahl, Marguerite Henry, James Howe, Patricia Polacco
Any nonfiction books
that are of interest to your child.
Below
are listed areas studied by your child this year. These topics sparked an interest among the
students. Use these topics as guidelines
in selecting books for the summer
-Historical
fiction: related to and biographies of the men and women of the Old West,
cowboys, chiefs and warriors, Wild West heroes
-Lewis
and Clark
-Native
American tales
-Tall
Tales
-Mysteries
-Poetry
anthologies
-Nonfiction
books on science topics
-Black
History: biographies from the Who Was
series
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SUMMER BOOK LIST FOR ENTERING THIRD GRADE
**Required
Title: Not My Dog, Colby Rodowsky
A-Z
Mysteries, Ron
Roy
Adventures
of Riley, Amanda Lumry and Laura Hurwitz
American
Girl series,
Felicity and Kirsten in particular
Animal
Biographies
of Famous People
Boxcar
Children
series, Gertrude Chandler Warner
Cam
Jansen Adventure
series, David Adler
The
Chocolate Touch,
Patrick Skene Catling
Dandelion, Eve Bunting
Flat
Stanley series,
Jeff Brown
Freckle
Juice,
Judy Blume
Geronimo
Stilton series
Hank
the Cowdog,
John Erickson
Harriet
Bean,
Alexander McCall Smith
Harriet’s
Hare,
Dick King Smith
Horrible
Ivy and Bean series, Annie Barrows
Jenny
Archer
series, Ellen Conford
Jigsaw
Jones Mysteries,
James Preller
Junie
B. Jones series,
Barbara Park
The
Kids of
Let’s
Read and Find Out series - Stage 2 Science
The
Lighthouse Family,
Cynthia Rylant
Magic
School Bus
Chapter books
Magic
Tree House
series,
My
America
series: Five Smooth Stones, My
Brother’s Keeper,
Our Strange New Land,
Westward
to Home, Season
of Promise, The Starving Time
Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, Carolyn
Keene
Nancy
Drew Notebook
series
The
Pet Patrol
series, Betsy Duffey
Pony
Pal series
Rainbow
Magic
series, Daisy Meadows
Ramona
series,
Beverly Cleary
Seven
Kisses in a Row; Skylark;
Caleb’s Story , Patricia MacLachlan
Stories
Julian Tells and
others by Ann Cameron