Summer Reading Assignment for 9th Honors English



World of Inquiry School

Summer Reading Assignment 7th grade English

Teachers: Ms. Gabrielle Graves

Email: gabrielle.graves@

Ms. Graves Cell: 585-319-1462

Google Classroom code for summer reading is: jp9r6ta

All World of Inquiry 7th grade students are expected to complete ONE book for summer reading. The reading this summer is an independent read, which should be selected from the list provided to you in this packet or from the RCSD ROC Reads selection found at the following link. ( ). Each student must read either a fiction or non-fiction text this summer. IF THERE IS A BOOK YOU WANT TO READ, BUT IT ISN’T ON EITHER BOOK LIST, PLEASE CALL, TEXT, OR EMAIL ME AND WE CAN DISCUSS YOUR BOOK OPTION FOR APPROVAL.

Summer reading novels may be checked out of the library as well as purchased new or used. If asked early enough, I will gladly lend families books. Be prompt in getting a copy of the novel you wish to read, in order to complete your reading and assignments before returning to school in the September.

| Mandatory: One Fiction Novel or one Non-fiction Book |

• During Reading:

← Complete 3 Independent Reading journal entries for the book you are reading. The example of how to do these journals are attached. You may also submit your work via google classroom as well. Feel free to complete them handwritten if that is easier for you. You must complete 3 total journal entries. Please label each entry you do. You will find these assignments in google classroom; however, the journal entries may also be handwritten.

← Take notes and plot important details as you read your selected books.

• After Reading:

← Complete a Book Talk for your book.

▪ Book Talk write up

▪ Book Talk visual aid or presentation.

▪ Present the first week of classes to classmates.

← Please note: A book talk consists of a formal written component of at least 3 paragraphs and includes a visual aid for the presentation. Visuals, may include a poster or may be done in google slides, via Google Classroom. There will be an example book talk in google classroom if you choose to do it in Google slides.

|B. Fiction and Non-fiction Book Choices – Choose books from list that follows and complete three “journal” entries as described below. |

INDEPENDENT READING

JOURNAL ENTRY OPTIONS – CHECKLIST

Directions: Select any independent reading book from the list of options provided to you. After completing approximately 30-35 minutes of Independent Reading, please fulfill one of the following tasks. This is designed to actively engage you with your reading. You may only complete each task one time. Each written entry should be at least 8-10 sentences. Please include the date, which entry you are doing and how many pages you read as a heading for your journal entry. You must complete at least 3 entries for each book before returning to school in September. You may also submit your assignments to me electronically via google classroom or via email gabrielle.graves@

Dates Completed

Options: You may write a… Checklist:

• Summary

• Letter to the author

• Letter to a character from the book

• Prediction – What will happen next?

• Set of at least 7-10 questions… create your own quiz

• Close reading analysis – pick 1 paragraph to discuss

• Pick 5 literary terms and connect to the novel

• Quick write on a topic you choose

• Character analysis

• KWL – 5 things per column

• Choose 8-10 unknown words from the reading

and find definitions

• Draw and explain a scene from the reading

• Compare/Contrast paragraph with another book

you have read

• Comic Strip

• Quote from the book – identify subject & speaker, explain

the meaning

• Create dialogue between two characters

• Diary entry as a chosen character

• “Dear Abby” letter – offer advice to a character

• Advertisement/commercial for the book

• Plot-structure – (exposition, rising action, climax, falling

action, and resolution)

• Alternative part – re-write any section of the book

• Poem or song lyrics (can be original) that relate to the book

• Collage of pictures, photos, or words depicting the book

• Re-design the book cover

• Mock newspaper or magazine article about the book

• Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text, Text-to-World

• Any other ideas? Let me know!

*Be creative and insightful!*

Example Journal Entries…

My Name: Ms. Graves

Title of Book: A Child Called “IT”

Author of Book: David Pelzer

Pages in book: 153

Journal #1:  (Summary)

A Child Called “It,” is an autobiography about a very young boy named Dave, who was severely abused by his emotionally unstable mother. In the beginning, he was always the brother to get caught in mischief and he was disciplined accordingly. It started out as typical abuse, as he was initially required to sit in the corner of his mom’s room. However, once his parents separated, his mother’s alcoholism forced her punishments to become more drastic and out of hand. In this book, it/David, narrates all the struggles he encounters while living with his mother and brothers. David was starved and forced to do unfathomable things for many years.  CPS, his father, and the school system served as little help to a young man who was being broken daily. David must find a way out of this story if he can.

Journal #2:  (Dear Diary)

Dear diary,

Today I… beat David again, but this time, he was very difficult to deal with. He was kicking, and screaming out for help. That's when I accidentally stabbed him in the chest. It was probably because I was drinking. When I look at him all I can think about is his father. David looks exactly like my ex-husband. It just makes me so mad. I cannot help but hate him. It’s not my fault David makes me do angry. Stabbing him was an accident. David will forgive me as I just fell over on top of him with the knife in my hands. After that, I couldn’t just sit around and watch him bleed out, so I helped clean him up. He should feel so lucky that I finally fed him. It was the one scrap of decency I had left in myself, not to let him die. I kind of felt like I should just let him die. I tried my hardest to patch him up, since I used to be a nurse. David had healed up pretty well after a couple of weeks. After that, I made him go straight back to his chores. Basically, everything is now back to “normal.” whatever our meaning of “Normal” is.

Journal #3: (7-10 Vocabulary Words and Definitions)

Pages 1-70

8-7-17

8- 10 words I don't know with definitions

1. Verbomania- An excessive use of or attraction to words

2. Heifer- A young cow

3. Polyester- A fabric made of such textile fibers

4. Snickering- A partly stifled laugh

5. Pugilism- The skill, practice, and sport of fighting with the fists

6. Irony-  The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning

7. Futsal- a form of association football, played indoors with five players on each side

8. Pronghorn- A ruminant mammal

|Possible Independent Reading Book List for incoming 7th Grade |

Some former Roc Read Selections

▪ How to Beat the Bully Without Really Trying, Scott Starkey

▪ Hunger Games (Any title from Series), Suzanne Collins

▪ The Limit, Kristen Landon

▪ The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman

▪ The Pirates (Any title from Series), Gideon Defoe

▪ Ruby Red, Kerstin Geir

▪ The Scorpio Races, Maggie Steifvater

Fantasy

▪ Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

▪ Summerland by Michael Chabon

▪ The Warrior Heir by Cinda Chima

▪ The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman

▪ Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen by Garth Nix

▪ Airborne, Skybreaker, and Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel

▪ The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

▪ Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer

▪ Three Wee Men and Nation by Terry Pratchet

▪ Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

▪ The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Science Fiction

▪ The Ender Series by Orson Scott Card

▪ Feed by M.T. Anderson

▪ The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick

▪ Little Brother Cory Doctorow

▪ The Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson

▪ Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

▪ Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

Realistic Fiction

▪ 13 Reasons Why, by Jay Asher

▪ Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

▪ Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

▪ A Step from Heaven by An Na

▪ Skellig by David Almond

▪ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series by Ann Brashares

▪ Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

▪ When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

▪ Woman in the Wall by Patrice Kindl

▪ Pinned, by Sharon G. Flake

▪ Bronx Masquerade, by Nikky Grimes

▪ Ambitious: A premiere High School Novel, by Monica McKayhan

▪ Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers

▪ Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

▪ Sunrise Over Fallujah, by Walter Dean Myers

▪ Stuck in Nuetral, by Terry Trueman

Historical Fiction

▪ Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper

▪ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. I & II by M.T. Anderson

▪ Black Duck by Janet Lisle

▪ The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

▪ True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

▪ The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

▪ Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell

▪ A Long Way From Chicago, by Richard Peck

Non-Fiction

▪ The Pact, by Drs.Samson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt

▪ Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, by Ben Carson

▪ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass

▪ African Princess: The Amazing Life of Africa’s Royal Women

▪ We Beat the Streets, by Drs.Samson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt

▪ Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

▪ The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson

▪ Escape from Camp 14, by Blaine Harden

▪ A Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer

▪ Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson

▪ In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson

▪ Up from Slavery, by Booker T. Washington

▪ Black Boy, by Richard Wright

▪ The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley and Malcolm X

▪ Why We Can’t Wait, by Martin Luther King Jr.

▪ Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, By Susan Cain

▪ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

▪ Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

▪ Unbroken, by Laura Hillebrand

▪ Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser

▪ Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of Mt. Everest, by Jon Krakauer

▪ The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester

▪ Krakatoa, by Simon Winchester

▪ Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley’s Curious Collection, by Simon Winchester

▪ The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, by Denise Kiernan

▪ We Are All the Same: The Story of a Boy’s Courage and a Mother’s Love, by Jim Wooten

▪ The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank

▪ The Whole Shebang, by Timothy Ferris

▪ Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger

▪ Breaking Through, by Francisco Jimenez

▪ Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai

▪ Discovering Wes Moore, by Wes Moore

▪ What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, by James Paul Gee

▪ Rookie Year One or Rookie Year Two, by Tavi Gevinson

▪ The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell

▪ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, by H.D. Bissinger

▪ Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell

▪ American Sniper, by Chris Kyle

Book Talk Assignment and Rubric Grade 7 (2018-2019 School Year)

Your Book Talk assignment involves delivering a 3 minute book talk to the class about the novel you have read for independent reading. The object of a book talk is to convince the listener to read the book you are recommending. This book talk is essentially a persuasive speech to convince the listener that they should read a specific book. A book talk is very similar to a trailer for a film, which shows you just enough information to convince you that you should watch the movie

Your presentation must include a visual aid, such as a drawing, collage, map, original book cover, etc to present to the audience. You may use notes to make your presentation. The book talk will cover the some elements of the novel, but you should focus much of your time on the plot and conflict of the novel.

Introduction: Find an interesting, exciting, or mysterious quote to start off your presentation. This quote will get the reader’s attention. Don’t just pick any old quote… choose carefully and deliberately to try to capture the attention of the audience Also explain why you chose the quote.. Clearly introduce your book by giving the name and author of the book.

Middle: The middle of the presentation will cover the setting, characters, and plot of the book without giving too much away of the story. Tell a little where the book is set, what kind of action or conflict is involved in the book, and what it is about in general. See if you can mention the theme of the novel. Under no circumstances should you give away the ending of the novel. Do not just list the characters and the setting and don’t give a drawn out summary of the book. .

Resolution: Without giving away the ending, convince the reader that you loved this book and that this is the book they want to read next. Make some predictions which student in the class would enjoy the book.

An example of a short book talks on The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

1. “There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.” 

So begins the story of Nobody Owens, known as Bod.  On the night his parents are brutally murdered, 2 year old Bod calmly climbs out of his crib and toddles out of the house and into a nearby cemetery.  There he is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Owens (childless and dead for 250 years!)  who gladly care for the child and protect him from harm.

With loving ghostly parents, teachers, friends, and protectors, Bod grows from age two to fifteen in the graveyard.  He learns to read and do numbers, and he also learns some ghostly skills.  But not all the residents of the graveyard are friendly.  There are witches, ghouls and creatures and let’s not forget Jack – the evil fiend who is out to finish the job he started.

Filled with great illustrations, this is a funny, exciting and suspenseful story.  How will Bod survive?  Or will he?  Can his loving family and friends really protect him from the evil Jack?  This delightfully gruesome and very English tale will certainly appeal to both boys and girls who like adventure stories, suspense and some action. The Graveyard Book won the Newbery Award in 2009, and the awards said that the book is a “delicious mix of murder, fantasy, humour and human longing,” according to Diane Ferbrache, Hazen High School Librarian for The Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, 2011.

Example Book Talk Visual on Google Slides for presentation

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Name:______________________________ College:_________________

Rubric for Book Talk

|Criteria |Excellent |Above Average |Average |Below Average |

| |20 - 16 |15 - 10 |10 - 7 |0 - 6 |

|Introduction attracts audience|Exceptional creative beginning|Creative beginning with a good|Not a very creative or |Not a very good beginning with|

| |with an excellent quote |quote |interesting beginning with a |no quote |

| | | |quote | |

|Maintains eye contact |Always maintains eye contact |Almost always maintains eye |Sometimes maintains eye |Never maintains eye contact |

| |and engages audience |contact |contact | |

|Discusses the plot, setting, |Thorough and interesting |Somewhat thorough and |Average summary of the |Does not summarize these |

|and characters |summary of these elements. |interesting summary of these |elements |elements or is missing a |

| | |elements | |component. |

|Discusses the theme |Correctly discusses theme and |Correctly discusses theme but |Discusses theme but is |Does not discuss theme or |

| |makes an educated argument for|fails to elaborate on the |incorrect or not very thorough|makes a very general statement|

| |the theme of the novel |importance |in their elaboration of theme |about the theme. |

|Conclusion makes us want to |Very enticing conclusion – |Somewhat interesting |Concluded but did not draw the|Very boring conclusion or no |

|read the book (or not read the|draws the listener to read the|conclusion- listener might |listener to read the book |conclusion at all. |

|book) |book |want to read the book | | |

|Demonstrates enthusiasm for |Very enthusiastic and |Somewhat enthusiastic and |Shows average enthusiasm and |Not enthusiastic at all |

|the book |knowledgeable |knowledgeable |understanding | |

|Audible |Voice is clear, words are |Voice is mostly clear and |Sometimes hard to understand |Spoken word is too soft, |

| |pronounced correctly and tempo|audible, Pronunciation is |or hear the student. |mumble, speaking much too fast|

| |is good. |mostly correct. |Mispronounces common words. |or slow. |

|Visual aid |Visual aid is well done, |Visual aid is colorful, and |Visual aid is completed and |Visual aid is not done or very|

| |colorful, and very helpful to |helpful to the presentation |might be helpful to the |poorly done |

| |the presentation | |presentation | |

|Stays within time limit |Within time limit 3 minutes | | |Too short or too long |

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