Incoming Grades 6 - 8 Summer Reading Assignment
MANASQUAN SCHOOLS
SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENTS GRADES 6 – 8
Department: Language Arts
Course: (Incoming) ELA Grade 6
Due Date: 1st week of school
Reading(s): Choose a fiction or non-fiction (memoir or biography) book.
Assignment(s): You will be asked to read one fiction or nonfiction book with a strong character. Appropriate nonfiction choices with strong elements of character include biography or memoir. Fiction choices may include any genre, including historical fiction, science fiction, etc. During the first week of school, you will be given a task which will ask you to reflect on the novel. As you are reading your novel, you should think be thinking about the elements of a text. Your task when you return to school in September, will focus on comparing and contrasting two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). It is highly recommended to take notes or mark important moments and/or quotes, as you will be able to use your notes in class!
Here is the grade 6 graphic organizer to help you organize your novel notes: Grade 6 Graphic Organizer for Summer Reading
Department: Language Arts
Course: (Incoming) ELA Grade 7
Due Date: 1st week of school
Reading(s): Choose a fiction or non-fiction (memoir or biography) book.
Assignment(s): You will be asked to read one fiction or nonfiction book with a strong character. Appropriate nonfiction choices with strong elements of character include biography or memoir. Fiction choices may include any genre, including historical fiction, science fiction, etc. During the first week of school, you will be given a task which will ask you to reflect on the novel. As you are reading your novel, you should think be thinking about the elements of a text. Your task when you return to school in September, will focus on how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond to change as the plot moves toward a resolution. It is highly recommended to take notes or mark important moments and/or quotes, as you will be able to use your notes in class!
Here is the grade 7 graphic organizer to help you organize your novel notes: Grade 7 Graphic Organizer for Summer Reading
Department: Language Arts
Course: (Incoming) ELA Grade 8
Due Date: 1st week of school
Reading(s): Choose a fiction or non-fiction (memoir or biography) book.
Assignment(s): You will be asked to read one fiction or nonfiction book with a strong character. Appropriate nonfiction choices with strong elements of character include biography or memoir. Fiction choices may include any genre, including historical fiction, science fiction, etc. During the first week of school, you will be given a task which will ask you to reflect on the novel. As you are reading your novel, you should think be thinking about the elements of a text. Your task when you return to school in September, will focus on how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). It is highly recommended to take notes or mark important moments and/or quotes, as you will be able to use your notes in class!
Here is the grade 8 graphic organizer to help you organize your novel notes: Grade 8 Graphic Organizer for Summer Reading
**PLEASE READ important information below**
As the following novels are used for instructional purposes throughout the school year, please avoid them for this assignment.
Grade 6:
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Grade 7
Flipped Wendelin Van Draanen
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie David Lubar
Ungifted Gordon Korman
Fever, 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson
Out of the Dust Karen Hesse
On My Honor Diane Bauer
The Giver Lois Lowry
Legends of King Arthur
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
Grade 8
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This is Now S.E. Hinton
Unwind Neal Shusterman
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Copper Sun Sharon Draper
Day of Tears Julius Lester
Call of the Wild Jack London
The Pearl John Steinbeck
Nothing But the Truth Avi
The Pigman Paul Zindel
Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose
Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury