Hello Class of 2009!
Try that on for size! How does it feel??
Thanks to AL for close and careful reading:
you only need ONE project,
but plots, characters, etc for each!!
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Summer Reading List
Kim Kunczt
8th grade
contact me at
kkunczt@saintlukes.net
or
kkunczt@satx.rr.com or
387 4295
Your Invitation to Multi-Task This Summer!
Student will be able to read and discuss orally books of his/her choosing.
IATUAPOTSLESHC.
Final products due Tuesday, August 28, 2008.
While you’re flying, sunning, waiting for the TV repairman, read some of these.
All great (some older) books; all connected to something from 7th or to 8th grade history.
Check Amazon.com or with your favorite bookstore/seller for a review/overview before you start.
In other words:
choose wisely at the outset.
Don’t waste your time on a book you can’t get interested in
Of course, you may select books not on this list.
Just let me know, first.
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ALA Award Winners 2007
ALA Award Winners 2008
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield |
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The World Made Straight
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Ron Rash
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Black Swan Green
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David Mitchell
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
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Michael Lewis
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The Floor of the Sky
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Pamela Carter Joern
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Color of the Sea
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John Hamamura
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Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
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Michael D’Orso
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The Book of Lost Things
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John Connolly
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Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
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Catherine Thimmesh
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Small Steps
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Louis Sachar
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Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
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Sy Montgomery
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To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel
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Siena
Cherson Siegel
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party
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M. T. Anderson
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Water for Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
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An Abundance of Katherines
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John Green,
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Surrender
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Sonya Hartnett
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Copper Sun
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Sharon Draper
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Anything by |
Rick Riordan |
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Twilight Saga |
Stephanie Meyer |
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Hurt, Go, Happy |
Ginny Rorby |
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Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow |
Card |
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The Wall:
Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain |
Sis |
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White Darkness |
McCaughrean |
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October Sky |
Hickam |
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Black Potatoes |
Campbell |
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Our Eleanor |
Fleming |
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Angel on the Square |
Whelan |
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Lizzie Bright |
School |
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Mable Riley |
Owned |
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Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry |
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Starship Troopers |
Contact me |
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Fallen Angels |
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Close to Shore:
Shark Attack |
Checkout |
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Andromeda Strain |
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Parents:
This list is based on recommendations from teaching colleagues and ALA and NCTE, and I have not read them all.
Some deal with adolescent/young adult situations.
From this list and/or the recommended reading list, you will choose three books and prepare a product for each.
All three books require plot mountains and character sheets.
They do have to be thorough and careful – CNT; do not overwork the plot or characters [this IS summer after all
J
– you know the terms and what to include.
This year – You will only need to do one project – but it better be a doozie; break out of your comfort zone and stretch.
You will present this to the class.
Have fun with the production, yet remember they will count as your first major grade of the six weeks.
In addition to the project, you will be asked to discuss one (your pick) with the class.
Remember our ENGLISH CLASS MOTTO:
CLASSY NOT TRASHY; MAKE THEM GIFTS!!
Be clever, creative, inventive and be a neat, precise, colorful producer!!
Projects
For one book {Make this a gift!}
1.
Create a Diary/ Day-timer/ Palm Pilot/Agenda for the protagonist or antagonist.
200 words.
Create a day-by-day appointment book for the main character or the opposing character.
2.
Pick an important quote. Create a poster (your art, or a collage – no cut and paste clip art, please; magazine, newspaper pictures will be fine; or be a photojournalist) to illustrate the importance of the quote.
Include the quote with title, author, and page number on the poster.
3.
In a well-crafted 300 word essay, compare the plot, theme, characters to a newspaper article. Read the newspaper daily along with your books, and when you’ve finished your book, make a connection to something current and important.
AND SPEAKING OF PLAGIARIZING, YOU MAY NOT JUST CUT AND PASTE STUFF FROM THE WEB INTO YOUR PROJECTS OR REPORTS. (and Teacher can/will find out if you did
. . .)
4.
Poetry Booklet
6 Acrostic Poems or follow the format we used for Westward Expansion poetry booklet.
One for the protagonist, one for the antagonist, one static, one dynamic, the author, and the setting.
Illustrated or collaged, of course.
For example, the protagonist from To Kill A Mockingbird (which you may NOT read, cuz we’re doing it together. . .)
S he is a young thing:
C hildish,
O utspoken
U tterly
T empted.
5.
Measure the author’s writing style Five senses:
Seeing, Hearing, Touching, Smelling, Tasting.
Quote 5 passages for each sense.
Illustrate
6.
Draw a 6- 8 panel color, cartoon that illustrates the plot of the book.
It’s the Sunday funnies.
Color, clever, classy!
7.
You think up something and e-mail me/call
for feedback/input:
power point, 3-D project.
Surprise us!
FLASHCARDS
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