2011 Summer Reading Sensation

Studies have shown that students’ who read more, read better; they also write better, spell better, have larger vocabularies, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions (Krashen, 2009)

Checklist for completing your Summer 2011 Reading: _____1. Choose two books to read from the District Summer Reading list. Select books that are closest to your reading level. For details go to www.lexile.com _____2. Purchase or check out summer reading list titles from your school or neighborhood

public library. _____3. Complete a Summer Reading Book Report Form for each of the two books read. _____4. Complete the chosen book activity from the list for each of the two books read. _____5. Have a parent or guardian sign the Book Report sheet. _____6. Turn in your completed Summer Reading book assignments to your Language Arts teacher, the first week of the 2011-2012 school year.

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Book Report Form

Complete the Book Report Form for each of the two books read. Name:__________________________________ Grade: ______________________________ Title:____________________________________ Author:_____________________________ Genre: __________________________ Reading Level: ______________________________ 1. Write a brief summary of the plot. (events of the story) ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Describe the setting of the story. (place and time which the story happens) ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. Choose your favorite character and briefly explain why he or she is your favorite character. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. Describe the main character in the book. List four personality traits of this character. (ex. courageous, clever, strong, friendly, helpful, humorous) Cite examples from novel to explain characterizations. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. Select an interesting quote from the book. Write it down and explain why you selected that quote. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. What was the most exciting event in the book? Explain why. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 7. Would you recommend this book to someone else to read? Explain ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 8. Author’s Purpose______________________________________________________________ Audience -Who would be interested in reading this book? ______________________________________________________________________________

Parent/Guardian Signature __________________________________

Date____________

Choose and complete one of the following activities for each of the two books read for Summer 2011: 1) Write a letter to the author: Write a letter to the author expressing your thoughts and reactions to the book. 2) Create a collage: Cut and paste pictures from clipart or old magazines to make a collage showing the literary elements (characters, setting, events, conflict(s), climax, resolution, themes etc.) for your book read. Use a poster board for the collage. 3) Character Interview: Interview a main character in the story, by creating five to eight questions about his actions, thoughts and role in the plot. Write responses that the character(s) would give to the questions. The questions and answers should provide information that shows that you have read the book. The responses should indicate significant details of the book. 4) Bookmark: Create a bookmark (3” X 7”) using construction paper or manila folder. Write the title, author and a brief review of the story. On the other side of bookmark, draw a picture that depicts an event or a major character. 5) Front Page: Create the front page of a newspaper that tells about the events and characters for one of the books you read. The newspaper page might include weather reports, an editorial or editorial cartoon, news events, sports events etc. The title of the newspaper should be relevant to the theme of the book. Use Who, What, Where, When, Why and How questions to guide your writing. 6) Comic Book: Turn a book read, or part of it, into a comic book. Complete with comic like illustrations and dialogue bubbles. Make the comic strip with a minimum of 10 frames. 7) Draw: translate chapters into storyboards and cartoons; draw the most important scene in the chapter and explain its importance and action 8) Reader Response: pick the most important word/line/image/object/event in the chapter and explain why you chose it; be sure to support all analysis with examples. 9) Designer: Design a T-shirt that promotes your book. 10) Poetry: Write a poem about one of the characters or the book.

K-12 Summer Reading Guidelines District Summer Reading List - Middle Titles have been chosen with age appropriate reading level and content in mind; yet, parents are encouraged to help their child make a selection by previewing the titles for difficulty of the text, subject matter, and content of the book.

Title Grades 6-8

Author

Genre

All the Lovely Bad Ones Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Animals Anonymous Antes de Ser Libre Anything But Typical Barack Obama: the politics of hope Baseball in April Béisbol en Abril y Otros Cuentos Blue Lipstick Breaking Through Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food Children of the River Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Code Orange Code Talker Countdown Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl Dizzy In Your Eyes Double Dutch Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie Eat This Not That for Kids El Rey de Las Octavas Fearless Fernie: Hanging Out with Fernie and Me Flight to Freedom Flipped Flush Found Framed Gossamer Gross Universe Homeless Bird Honeybee: Poems and Short Prose Hurt Go Happy Hush Jackie's Wild Seattle Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow Kidnapped in Key West Kingdom Keepers Last Newspaper Boy Life As We Knew It Money Hungry Mysterious Benedict Society

Mary Downing Hahn Tonya Lee Stone Rich Michelson Julia Alvarez Nora Raleigh Baskins William Davis Gary Soto Gary Soto John Grandits Francisco Jimenez Eric Schlosser

Fiction Biography Poetry Historical Fiction Fiction Biography Multicultural Fiction Short Stories Poetry Multicultural Fiction Nonfiction

Linda Crew Phillip Hoose Caroline Cooney Joseph Bruchac Ben Mikaelson John Feinstein Pat Mora Sharon Draper Jordan Sonnenblick David Zinczenko Emma Romeu Gary Soto Ana Veciana Suarez Wendelin Van Draanen Carl Hiaasen Margaret Haddix Rose Malcolm Lois Lowry Jeff Szpirglas Gloria Whelan Naomi Shihab Nye Ginny Rorby Jacqueline Woodson Will Hobbs James Rollins Edwina Raffa Ridley Pearson Sue Corbett Susan Beth Pfeffer Sharon Flake Trenton Lee Stewart

Multicultural Fiction Multicultural Biography Fiction Multicultural Fiction Fiction Sports Fiction Poetry Multicultural Fiction Fiction Nonfiction Biography Poetry Multicultural Fiction Realistic Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Multicultural Fiction Poetry Fiction Multicultural Fiction Fiction Fiction Historical Fiction Fiction Fiction Science Fiction Multicultural Fiction Fantasy

K-12 Summer Reading Guidelines District Summer Reading List - Middle Titles have been selected with age appropriate reading level and content in mind; however, parents are encouraged to help their child make a selection by previewing the titles for difficulty of the text, subject matter, and content of the book.

Title

Author

Never Mind! A Twin Novel Peter and the Starcatchers Phineas Gage Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party: A Novel Romiette and Julio Savvy Schooled Silent Bone Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Summer Ball Tangerine The Biography of Chocolate The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp The Mouse Rap The Wright 3 Blue The Year I Was Grounded Tunnels Under the Same Sky

What Are You Afraid Of? Stories About Phobias

Avi Humorous Dave Barry John Fleishman Compestine Ying Chang Sharon Draper Ingrid Law Gordan Korman E.L. Konisburg Ann Bradshares Mike Lupica Edward Bloor Adrianna Morganelli Rick Yancey Walter Dean Myers Balliett Adventure William H. New Roderick Gordon Cynthia de Felice

Donald Gallo

Genre Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Multicultural Fiction Multicultural Fiction Fantasy Humorous Fiction Realistic Fiction Fiction Sports Fiction Fiction Nonfiction Adventure Multicultural Fiction Fiction Poetry Fiction Fiction

Nonfiction

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K-12 Summer Reading Guidelines District Summer Reading List – Senior High

Grades 9 – 12 Title 1984 A Farewell to Arms American Born Chinese Fiction/Graphic Novel Anthem Buried Onions Casa de los Espiritus Catcher in the Rye City of Beasts Climbing the Stairs Copper Sun Dew Breaker Don Quijote de la Mancha Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde El Viejo y el Mar Ellen Foster Contemporary Fiction Everlost Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Fade to Black Contemporary Fiction Fahrenheit 451 Feed Florida Poems Interest Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Girl With a Pearl Earring Graceling Young Adult Fiction Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy House of Spirits Fiction In Cold Blood In the Time of the Butterflies Into the Wild It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life Jane Eyre Joy Luck Club Keesha's House Fiction Kindred Literature/Multicultural/ La Ciudad de las Bestias Fiction/Multicultural La Joven de la Perla

Author

Genre

George Orwell Ernest Hemingway Yang, Gene Luen

Classic Literature Classic Literature Multicultural

Ayn Rand Gary Soto Isabel Allende J. D. Salinger Isabel Allende Padma Venkatraman Sharon Draper Edwidge Danticat Miguel de Cervantes Robert Louis Stevenson Ernest Hemmingway Kaye Gibbons

Philosophy Multicultural Fiction Fiction/Multicultural Classic Literature Multicultural Fiction Multicultural Fiction Historical Fiction Multicultural Fiction Classic Literature Classic Literature Classic Literature Young Adult

Neal Shusterman Jonathan Safran Foer Alex Flinn Ray Bradbury M. T. Anderson Campbell McGrath

Science Fiction Philosophy Young Adult Classic Literature Science Fiction Poetry/Florida

Ben Carson Tracy Chevalier Kristin Cashore

Biography Historical Fiction Contemporary

Douglass Adams Isabel Allende

Science Fiction Multicultural

Truman Capote Julia Alvarez Jon Krakauer

Classic Literature Multicultural Fiction Philosopy

Lance Armstrong Charlotte Bronte Any Tan Helen Frost

Biography Classic Literature Multicultural Fiction Multicultural

Octavia Butler

Classic

Isabel Allende Tracy Chevalier

Historical Fiction

District Summer Reading List - Senior

High

Title

Author

Marianela Fiction/Multicultural Of Mice and Men Peak Contemporary Fiction Persepolis Contemporary Pride and Prejudice Ringside, 1925: View from the Scopes Trial Fiction Shift Young Adult Fictiion Siddhartha The Adoration of Jenna Fox The Alchemist The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party Fiction/Multicultural The Book Thief The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Contemporary Fiction The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The Elegance of the Hedgehog The Glass Castle Contemporary Fiction The Graveyard Book Contemporary Fiction The Hunger Games Contemporary Fiction The Metamorphosis The Old Man and the Sea The Omnivore's Dilemma The Stranger Literature The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom Fiction/Multicultural The Things They Carried Fiction/War Stories The Uglies Contemporary Fictiion Treasure Island Written in Bone Fiction/Forensic

Benito Perez Galdós

Genre Historical

John Steinbeck Roland Smith

Classic Literature Young Adult

Marjane Satrapi

Young Adult

Jane Austen

Classic Literature

Jennifer Bryant

Poetry/Historical

Jennifer Bradbury

Contemporary

Herman Hesse Mary Pearson Paulo Coelho

Classic Literature Science Fiction Philosophy

M. T. Anderson

Historical

Markus Zusak

Historical Fiction

Mark Haddon

Young Adult

Jean-Dominique Bauby Muriel Barbery Jeannette Walls

Non-Fiction Philosophy Young Adult

Neil Gaiman

Young Adult

Suzanne Collins

Young Adult

Frank Kafka Ernest Hemmingway Michael Pollan Albert Camus

Classic Literature Classic Literature Non-Fiction Classic

Margarita Engle

Poetry/Historical

Tim O'Brien

Classic

Scott Westerfield

Young Adult

Robert Louis Stevenson Sally M. Walker

Classic Literature Non-

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