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7th Grade Summer Reading List Name: ____________________________________ Due: Friday, August 30, 2019Students should read a minimum of three to five age/grade appropriate books. One MUST be a mystery; the other two can be a genre of your choice. The titles below are just suggestions. Students are free to select a book of their choice, as long as it is grade appropriate. Students should follow directions on the back of this sheet for ONE of the books, as well as be prepared to conference and discuss all of their books with me. My email address is rogersr5@. *Titles below are listed most difficult to least difficult and correlate to the American Reading Company curriculum. Unit themes are: Intro to Varied Genres; Weather; Mysteries; Civil/Human Rights. It may be helpful to read books related to those topics.Mystery: Sherlock Holmes originals; Agatha Christie; Alex Rider; Theodore Boone; Belly Up Science Fiction: House of the Scorpion; Maze Runner series; Hunger Games series; The Selection Series; Cinder; Simon Bloom Fantasy: Fever Crumb; Ranger’s Apprentice; The Black Book of Secrets; Leisl and Po; The Lion, Witch, and the WardrobeHistorical Fiction: The Book Thief; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas; Fever; Walking to the Bus Rider Blues; Ever After Bird; Elijah of BuxtonBiography: My Thirteenth Winter; Roald Dahl Going Solo; I am Malala; Code Talker; Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons; Ties That Bind, Ties That BreakRealistic Fiction: The Call of the Wild; Hatchet; Tangerine; Mockingbird; BluefishDrama: (Must Be Script Form): Monster; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Fantastic BeastsPoetry: Poetry Collections OR Fiction in Verse books such as Shark Girl; House Arrest; CrossoverOther: Science (weather, life, physical, or earth); History (American Civil Rights; Human Rights) Title Date Started Date CompletedParent Signature Directions for Summer Reader Response/Reflection Journal: for only ONE of your books! A Reading Journal is a place to react to what you read. You can discover exactly how you feel about what you’re reading, gather new insights, and expand your enjoyment. Reading Journals can be an excellent method to record compelling ideas, memorable lines or quotes, details, questions, and personal reactions. You have the ingredients for an outstanding book review--one that reflects honest and original thinking. All of us actively respond to what happens around us each day. This is normal. We laugh, get angry, feel sad, become confused, encourage others, wonder, ask questions. It is just as normal to respond to what is happening in the inner world of a book. Reading Journals provide a place for you to interact with the author and the world he/she has created. This interaction makes you an active reader. As you read, write your personal responses to the work. Each response is a journal entry. State your feelings, thoughts, reactions, and questions about the selection-- its situations, ideas, actions, characters, settings, symbols, plot, theme, and other elements of the work that interest you or mean something to you. You cannot be wrong in your responses, so take risks and be honest. Write about what you like and dislike and what seems confusing or unusual to you. Tell what you think something means. Look for examples of writing you particularly like or dislike and talk about them. Make predictions about what might happen later. Relate your personal experiences that connect with the plot, settings, or characters. If you like, quote brief passages from the work and respond to them. Try to relate this work to another work you’ve read or to a movie you’ve seen. How are they alike? How are they different? PROCEDURES: Select ONE of your books to reflect on. 1. Journal entries (minimum of six) may be typed on the computer OR handwritten. 2. Each entry must be labeled: book title & author; date of entry; and page numbers covered in this reading 3. Each entry must be at least 100 words of mature, insightful response writing. 4. Students will submit completed journals on Friday, August 30. REQUIREMENTS: Use supporting details from the book that provide evidence of your having read and thought about the book; however, do not just retell or summarize the story. SUGGESTED SENTENCE LEAD-INS: I wonder what this means... I really don’t understand this part because... I really like/dislike this part because... This character reminds me of somebody I know because... This character is like (name) in (title of work) because... I think this setting is important because... This scene reminds me of a similar scene in (title of work) because... This part is realistic/unrealistic because... This section makes me think about...because... This section is particularly effective because... I think the relationship between...and ...is interesting because... I like/dislike (name of character) because... This situation reminds me of a similar situation in my own life when…because… The character I most admire is...because... If I were (name of character) at this point, I would... SUGGESTED QUESTIONS: What are your feelings after reading the opening chapter(s)? After reading half the book? After finishing the book? Did this book make you laugh? Cry? Cringe? Smile? Cheer? Explode? Record some of your reactions. Would you like to acquire a personality trait of any particular character? Describe the trait and explain why you like it. Would you have used a different name for any character or place? What name? What questions would you like to ask the author of this book? How have you changed after reading this book? What do you know now that you didn’t know before? READ, THINK, and WRITE your thoughts! ................
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