Somerville Public Library: Summer Reading Lists

Crossley-Holland, Kevin. The World of King Arthur and his Court: People, Places Legend and Lore.
Hamilton, Virginia. Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales.
Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales.
Sierra, Judy. Can You Guess my Name?
Ward, Helen. Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop’s Fables.

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Somerville Middle School: Grades 7 and 8

Requirements Recommended Reading

7th Grade Auxiliary List 8th Grade Auxiliary List

Requirements:

The following is a list of suggested books and their authors. This year seventh and eighth grade students are required to read one (1) book from the general list and one (1) book from the auxiliary list for summer reading.

Recommended Reading

Historical Fantasy Mystery Science Fiction Realistic Adventure

Biography Poetry Humorous Classics

HISTORICAL FICTION

Avi. Crispin: the Cross of Lead.* Crispin at the Edge of the World.
Carbone, Elisa. Blood on the River: James Town 1607.
Choldenko,Gennifer. Al Capone does my Shirts.
Collier, James. With every Drop of Blood.
Cushman, Karen. Catherine, called Birdy.*
Curtis, Christopher P. The Watsons go to
Birmingham, 1963. *
Drucker, Malka. Jacob’s Rescue.
Fleischman, Paul. Bull Run.*
Goodman, Joan. Hope’s Crossing.
Gregory,Kristiana. The Winter of the Red Snow.
Hesse, Karen. Witness.*
Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils.*
Kadohota, Cynthia. Kira, Kira.*
Lyons, Mary. Dear Ellen Bee: A Scrapbook
of Two Union Spies.
McCaughrean, Geraldine. Stop the Train.
Maguire, Gregory. The Good Liar.
Mazer, Norma Fox. Good night, Maman.
Myers, Anna. Assassin.
O’Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop.
Park, Linda. A Single Shard.*
Peck, Richard. Fair Weather: A Novel.
Pearsall, Shelley. Crooked River.
Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood Red Sun.
Schmidt, Gary. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy.*
Taylor, Mildred. Let the Circle be Unbroken.
Taylor, Theodore. Billy the Kid: a Novel.
Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth. A Traitor among Us.
Whelan, Gloria. Listening for Lions.
Wilson, John. Battle Scars.

FANTASY FICTION

Alexander, Lloyd. The Black Cauldron.
Barron, T.A. The Merlin Effect.
Colfer, Ioin. The Opal Deception.
Farland, David. Of Mice and Magic.
Funke, Cornelia. Inkspell.; Inkheart.
Ibbotson, Eva. Which Witch.
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline.
Jacques, Brian. Mossflower. (series)
Langrish, Katherine. Troll Mill.
McAllister, Margaret. Urchin of the Riding Stars.
Nimmo, Jenny. Midnight for Charlie Bone.
Oppel, Kenneth. Skybreaker.; Airborn.
Petty, J.T. Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer.
Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter. (series)
Ruby, Laura. The Wall and the Wing.
Sage, Angie. Magyk.; Flyte.

MYSTERY FICTION

Avi. Wolf Rider: Tale of Terror.
Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer. ; The Wright 3.
Buckley, Michael. The Sisters Grimm.
Duncan, Lois. I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Feinstein, John. Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery.
Hamilton, Virginia. The House of Dies Drear.
Higson, Charles. Silverfin: a James Bond Mystery.
Hoeye, Michael. Time Stops for No Mouse.
Hoobler, Dorothy. The Ghost of Tokaido Inn.
Horowitz, Anthony. South by Southeast.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Candidate for Murder.
Ruby, Laura. Lily’s Ghosts.
Springer, Nancy. The Case of the Missing Marquess.
Vande Velde, Vivan. Never Trust a Dead Man.*
Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy. (series)
Wright, Betty Ren. The Ghosts of Mercy Manor.

SCIENCE FICTION

Chrisopher, John. When the Tripods Came.
Daley, Michael. Space Station Rat.
Fardell, John. The 7 Professors and the Far North.
Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion.
Haddix, Margaret. Among the Hidden. (series)
L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time.*
Lindburgh, Anne. Nick of Time.
Lowry, Lois. Messenger.
Valentine, James. Jumpman Rule # 1.
Vande Velde, Vivian. Heir Apparent.
Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies.
Zindel, Paul. Rats.

REALISTIC FICTION

Avi. Never Mind.
Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks.
Carter, Alden. Bullcatcher.
Coy, John. Crackback.
Creech, Sharon. Replay.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bucking the Sarge.
Flake, Sharon. The Skin I’m In.*
Gantos, Jack. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.*
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Pictures of Hollis Woods.
Hale, Shannon. Princess Academy.
Hiasson, Carl. Flush.; Hoot.
Johnson, Angela. Toning the Sweep.
Koss, Amy. Poison Ivy.
Lupica, Mike. Travel Team.; Heat.
Martin, Ann. A Dog’s Life.
Naylor, Phyllis. Alice. (series)
Peck, Richard. A Long Way from Chicago. *
Perkins, Lynne Rae. Criss Cross. *
Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief.
Sachar, Louis. Small Steps.
Spinelli, Jerry. Wringer.*
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Under the Persimmon Tree.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. Flipped.
Wilhelm, Doug. The Revealers.
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True Believer.
Yee, Lisa. Millicent Min: Girl Genius.

ADVENTURE FICTION

Alexander, Lloyd. The Xanadu Adventure.
Almond, David. Heaven Eyes.
Anderson, M.T. Whales on Stilts.
Fardell, John. The Seven Professors of the Far North.
Farmer, Nancy. The Sea of Trolls.
Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker. (series)
Ibbotson, Eva. The Star of Kazan.
Lawrence, Iain. The Wreckers.
Lisle, Janet. Black Duck.
Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet.*
Pryor, Bonnie. Luke on the High Seas.
Said, S.F. Varpak Paw.
Smith, Roland. Jack’s Run.
Stanley, Diane. Bella at Midnight.
Yancey, Richard. The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp.

BIOGRAPHY

Adler, David. B. Franklin. Printer.
Denenberg, Dennis. 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Know.
Lawlor, Laurie. Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit.
Boerst, William. Galileo Galilei and the Science of Motion.
Freedman, Russell. Eleanor Roosevelt, A Life of Discovery.
Freedman, Russell. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights.
Marrin, Albert. George Washington and the Founding of a Nation.
Myers, Walter Dean. The Greatest: Muhammad Ali.
Paulsen, Gary. Guts.
Severance, John. Einstein, Visionary Scientist.
Whitelaw, Nancy. Thomas Jefferson, Philosopher and President.

POETRY

Carlson, Lori. Cool Salsa.; Red Hot Salsa.
Dahl, Roald. Vile Verses.
George, Kristine. Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems.
Ghigna, Charles. A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys.
Greenberg, Jan. Ed. Heart to Heart.
Grimes, Nikki. Hopscotch Love: A Family
Treasury of Love Poems.
I, Too, Sing, America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry.
Sullivan, C. Ed. Here is my Kingdom: Hispanic American Literature and Art for Young People.
Janeczko, Paul. A Kick in the Head.
Johnson, Angela. The Other Side: Shorter
Poems.
Meadearis, Angela. Skin Deep.
Nye, Naomi Shibab. A Maze Me: Poems for Girls.
Nye, Naomi Shibab. 19 Varieties of
Gazelle.
Rochelle, Belinda. Ed. Words with Wings: A
Treasury of African American Poetry and Art.

HUMOROUS FICTION

Barry, Dave. Peter and the Star Catchers.
Cabot, Megan. All American Girl.
Korman, Gordon. The Twinkie Squad.
Ogden, Charles. Tourist Trap.
Peck, Richard. The Teacher’s Funeral.
Snicket, Lemony. The Bad Beginning. (series)
Spinelli, Jerry. Space Station Seventh Grade.
Tolan, Stephanie. Surviving the Applewhites.

CLASSICS

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia.
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables.
Perham, Molly. King Arthur and the Legends of
Camelot.
Pyle, Howard. The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit.
Wyss, Johann. Swiss Family Robinson.

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7th Grade Auxiliary List

Fiction Non-Fiction and Biography

Fiction

Alvarez, Julia. Before We were Free, 2002. In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
Avi. Escape From Home, 1996. Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord’s runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World. (Sequels)
Dhami, Narinder. Bindi Babes, 2004. Amber, Jazz and Geena are three Indian sisters who live with their father in England. Everything changes when their aunt comes from India and the girls plot to marry her off.
Giff. Patricia Reilly. Maggie’s Door, 2003. In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.
Glazer, Linda. Bridge to America, 2005. Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.
Kurtz, Jane. Storyteller’s Beads, 1998. During the political strife and famine of the 1980’s two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.
Laird, Christa. Shadow of the Wall, 1990. Living with his mother and two sisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Misha is befriended by the director of the orphanage, Dr. Korczak, and finds a purpose to his life when he joins a resistance organization.
Laird, Elizabeth. Kiss the Dust, 1991. Her father’s involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future.
Matas, Carol. After the War, 1996. After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
Napoli, Donna. Bound, 2004. In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child’s feet so that she alone might marry well.
Orlev, Uri. Run, Boy, Run, 2003. Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who excapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
Park, Linda Sue. A Single Shard, 2001. Tree-ear, a thirteen year old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under the bridge in a potters’ village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
Park, Linda Sue. When My Name Was Keoko, 2002. With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
Patenaude, David. Thin Wood Walls, 2004. Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice in their Seattle community after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and are eventually torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the U.S. Army to fight in World War II.
Roy, Jennifer. Yellow Star, 2006. A Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive Poland’s Lodz ghetto during Nazi occupation.
Staples, Suzanne. Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind, 1989. Eleven-year-old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present day Pakistan, is pledged to marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family.
Whelan, Gloria. Angel on the Square, 2001. A young woman growing up in the shadow of the Russian Revolution.
Whelan, Gloria. Homeless Bird, 2000. When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated marriage, she must suffer a destiny dictated by India’s tradition or find the courage to oppose it.

Non-Fiction and Biography

Ayer, Eleanor. The United States Holocaust Museum: America Keeps the Memory Alive, 1994. The story of the holocaust is interwoven with the museum tour.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Potato Famine, 1845-1850, 2001. During the Great Irish Famine, one million people died from starvation and disease and more than two million fled their homeland.
Bitton-Jackson, Livia. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust, 1997. This is the memoir of Elli Friedman, a Hungarian girl who survived the Holocaust.
DePrau, Joanne. Cloning, 2000. Discusses the methods, regulation, and the ethics of cloning in relation to agriculture, medicine, endangered species, and human beings.
Filipovic, Zlata. Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo, 1994. The diary of a young girl living in war-torn Sarajevo.
Goodall, Jane. The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours, 2001. Dr. Goodall campaigns for the protection of the chimpanzee.
Hawkes, Nigel. Genetic Engineering, 1991. Examines the growing practice of altering genes for the purpose of curing disease and improving plants and animals, presenting both sides of the controversial issue.
Johnson, Spencer. Who Moved My Cheese for Teens: An Amazing Way to Change and Win, 2002. Presents the author’s parable about change framed in a story about a group of high school friends trying to handle change in their lives.
Major Systems of the Body, 2002. A description of the structure and function of major systems of the human body.
Nardo, Don. Cloning, 2002. Presents the science as well as the social issues behind this controversial topic.
Nardo, Don. Cloning, 2003. Discusses the history of cloning, its possible applications, and some of the controversy surrounding it.
Parker, Steve. How the Body Works, 1994. 100 ways parents and kids can share the miracle of the human body.
Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. Biodiversity, 1996. Provides a global perspective on environmental issues the interdependence of species.
Perl, Lila. Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story, 1996. The memoir of a young girl who spent time in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Romanek, Trudee. Squirt!: The Most Interesting Book You’ll ever Read about Blood, 2006. Interesting facts and some history of blood.
Sloan, Christopher. The Human Story: Our Evolution from Prehistoric Ancestors to Today, 2004. Follows the many species of pre-humans as they developed and expanded their range around the world.
Swinburne, Stephen. Once A Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to bring back the Gray Wolf, 1999. Describes the conservation movement to restore wolves to the wild.
Toll, Nelly. Behind the Secret Window:A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War II, 1993. The author recalls her experiences when she and her mother were hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland during World War II.
Tunnel, Michael. The Children of Topaz, 1996. The diary of a class of Japanese-American children in an internment camp during World War II.
Warren, Andrea. Surviving Hitler, 2001. Recounts the experience of a holocaust survivor.
Willowby, Susan. Art, Music and Writings from the Holocaust, 2003. Creative cultural pieces from the time of the Holocaust express the feelings of those who lived through this experience.
Yancey, Diane. Life in a Japanese Internment Camp, 1998. Discusses the course of Japanese immigration into the United States, events leading to the relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and the conditions they faced in the internment camps.

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8th Grade Auxiliary List

Fiction Non-Fiction

Fiction

Blackwood, Gary. The Year of the Hangman, 2002. In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.
Calvert, Patricia. Betrayed!, 2002. In 1867, after his father's death and his mother's remarriage, fourteen-year-old Tyler and his black friend Isaac set out on the Missouri River headed west to seek their fortunes, encountering an unsavory keel boat captain and a Sioux chief along the way.
McCaughrean, Geraldine. Stop the Train!: A Novel, 2003. Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner Railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town.
O’Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop, 1980. Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who took opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain, 1943. The Revolutionary War with its famous Boston Tea Party is described in this historical novel of the revolt in Boston.
Wood, Frances. Daughter of Madrugada, 2002. Thirteen-year-old Cesa de Haro's beloved way of life on the beautiful Rancho del Valle de la Madrugada is threatened by Mexico's loss of Upper California to the United States in 1846 and the arrival of gold seekers from the east.

Non-Fiction

A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and its Aftermath, 2002. Records one of the most devastating events in modern American history.
Ambrose, Stephen. The Good Fight: How World War II was Won, 2001. Accounts of major events of the war, personal anecdotes and stories of human triumph and tragedy.
Armstrong, Jennifer. American Story: 100 True Tales from American History, 2006. 100 short stories about real people and events in American history, arranged chronologically.
Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Museum, 1993. This volume details the four major historical participants of the Holocaust: the perpetrator, the bystander, the rescuer and above all, the victim.
Bolden, Tanya. Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America, 2001. Memoirs, diaries, artwork and photographs are used to explore what it meant to be a black child growing up in America.
Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation, 1998. Personal narratives tell the stories of individual men and women who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II and went on to build modern America.
Davis, Kenneth. Don’t Know Much About American History, 2003. Presents, in question and answer format, a history of the United States from the exploration of Christopher Columbus to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Freedman, Russell. Give Me Liberty!: The Story of the Declaration of Independence, 2000. Describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing.
Freedman, Russell. In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America’s Bill of Rights, 2003. Describes the origins, applications of, and challenges to the ten amendments to the United States constitution that comprise the Bill of Rights.
Hamilton, Virginia. Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom, 1993. Recounts the journey of black slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
Johnston, Robert D. The Making of America: A History of the United States from 1492 to the Present, 2002. Our individual freedoms are protected by the Bill of Rights and our democratic system of government is safeguarded by the checks and balances built into our Constitution.
Murphy, Jim. The Long Road to Gettysburg, 1992. Describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as seen through the eyes of two actual participants.
Ray, Delia. A Nation Torn: The Story of How the Civil War Began, 1990. Letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts and photographs are used to portray the events leading to the war that tore apart a nation.
Schanzer, Rosalyn. George vs. George The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides , 2004. Explores how the characters and lives of King George III of England and George Washington affected the progress and outcome of the American Revolution.

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Somerville High School

Somerville High School's Summer Reading Brochure

is available at Somerville High School's Website at

http://www.somervillenjk12.org/2007/pdfs/SHSSummerReadingPamphlet.pdf

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Immaculate Conception School

Grades K-4

Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8

Immaculate Conception School: Grades K-4

Students going into Kindergarten through fourth grade in September

may read whatever they wish to read,

as long as it is on their reading level

For a recommendation of books to read,

please see a staff member in the children's room.

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Immaculate Conception School: Grade 5

Required Reading Suggested Reading

Required Reading: Incoming fifth graders must be ready to discuss these two books on the first day of school:

Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George

Suggested Reading:

Realistic Fiction:

Cousins, by Virginia Hamilton
Hoops, by Walter Dean Myers
The Pinballs, by Betsy Byars
Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech

Mystery

The Eyes of the Amaryllis, by Natalie Babbit
The Moonlight Man, by Paula Fox
The Vandemark Mummy, by Cynthia Voigt
Who Was that Masked Man, Anyway?, by Avi

Historical Fiction

Blitzcat, by Robert Westall
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss

Adventure

Banner in the Sky, by James Ramsey Ullman
Stone Fox, by John Gardiner
The Cay, by Theodore Taylor

Fantasy

The Boggart, by Susan Cooper
Redwall, by Brian Jacques
Searching for Dragons, by Patricia Wrede
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt

Humor

Skinnybones, by Barbara Park
Soup, by Robert Newton Peck
Knights of the Kitchen Table, by Jonathan Scieszka

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Immaculate Conception School: Grade 6

Requirements and Assignments

Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen

Take an ordinary paper lunch bag and draw a scene from the novel on the front of the bag. The front of the bag also should have the title and author as well as your name. On the back of the paper bag, write the names of the main characters, supporting characters, setting, problem and resolution. Inside the bag, place eight objects that represent major events in the novel or aspects of Brian's personality. At least four of the objects must be handmade.

Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

If you have lost your copy of the "Story Clues" worksheet, please see a library staff member for a duplicate copy.
In this novel, the Character Jess likes to draw "crazy animals" in impossible situations. These pictures often reveal his sense of humor Draw your own funny, fantastic animal and identify it with a caption at the bottom of the picture. Be creative!

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Immaculate Conception School: Grade 7

Note: If you have misplaced your packet,

Please see a library staff member for a duplicate.

Part I Part II

Part I: Choose one book from the following list and write a 5 paragraph book review on the novel. Essays should be 5 paragraphs in length and make sure to include an introduction and conclusion paragraph

Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Watatuski Houston and James D. Houston
Everything on a Waffle, by Polly Horvath
City of Ember, by Jeanne Duprau
Far North, by William Hobbs

Part II: Incoming seventh graders are required to read The Giver, by Lois Lowry, and complete a Collage book report on the book.

REQUIREMENTS: Please Read Carefully

As you read the book, keep a list of characters, settings, plot events and overall theme.
When you have finished reading the book, browse through old magazines, cutting out pictures to represent each of the items on your list.
create an 18" x 12" collage using the magazine pictures. As much as possible (cover all the white paper) the whole background should be covered. Pictures can overlap. The only words on the picture should be the title and Author of the book. If signs are found in the magazines that are particularly book at representing an aspect of the book, they can be used but they should be kept to a minimum. Symbols (arrows, money symbols, etc.) can be added sparingly if appropriate.
Using the information from your list complete the table given in the packet and attach it to the back of the poster explaining the college.

Both assignments will be graded upon entry to seventh grade

in September.

Bring them with you on the first day of school.

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Immaculate Conception School: Grade 8

Requirements Assignment

Requirements

Girls: Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene
Boys: Miracle's Boys, by Jacqueline Woodson
Both Girls and Boys: The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton

Assignment

Explain in detail the setting of each story and how that setting creates the conflicts each character has to contend with (at least 3 paragraphs
Describe the family dynamics each of the main characters are in. For example, they have a mother and father and siblings or parents are not alive and family member takes care of them
Make comparisons on how each main character feels like an outsider and why
Describe if feeling like an outsider has to do with race, economics or religion. How does this keep them from being a part of mainstream America?
List the types of prejudices existing in each novel. How does this affect the characters?
- Make a poster half the size of a normal size poster board and create the mod and emotions emanating form the novel--use graffiti and pictures. (Create this with a lot of though. Someone who has not read the story should be able to know a lot about the story form just this poster)
OR
- Create a mobile with coat hangers with the name of the story in the center piece and each main character's traits on separate cards. Make it colorful and pleasing to look at.

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Immaculata High School

Please click on the links below

to find the assignment for your English Class.

English 1 CP 0112

English 1 Hon 0113 Essentials of English 1 0115

English 2 CP 0122

English 2 Hon 0123

English 3 CP 0132

English 3 Hon 0133 Advanced English 3 0136

English 4 CP 0142

English 4 Hon 0143 English 4 AP 0146

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Public Schools

Van Derveer Elementary

Grades K-1