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Summer Reading Assignment

Summer Reading List

Kim Kunczt

7^th 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.

Student will be able to relate plot, details, events of the book

Final products due Thursday, 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 7^th or to 8^th 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.

Criss Cross *	Perkins
An American Plague	Halse
Witch of Blackbird Pond*	Speare
Gone with the Wind	Mitchell
The Good Earth*	Buck
Winter People	Bruchac
Heroes Don’t Run	Mazer
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine *	Walker
Story of the Real Revolution	Aronson
Leonardo da Vinci	Krull
Ransom of Mercy Carter	Cooney
Mine Eyes Have Seen	Rinaldi
Lyddie	Paterson
The Bread Givers	Yesierski
The Road Home	White
When Child Soldiers Go to War	Briggs
The Black Flower	Bahr
Now is Your Time	Myers
Eight Men Out Black Sox Scandal 1919	Asinof
Anthony Burns	Hamilton
Phineas Gage	Fleischman
Year of Wonders	Brooks
Invisible Enemies	Farrell
Good Brother, Bad Brother	Giblin
Kitchen Boy	Alexander
Monster *	Myers
Angel on the Square	Gloria Whelan
Good Masters!   Sweet Ladies! Voices from Medieval . . .	Schlitz
Feathers	Woodson
Twilight Saga	Stephanie Meyer
Book of a Thousand Days	Hale
Wednesday Wars	Schmidt
Anything by	Riodan

                                                * Award winners from the American Library Association

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.

Projects

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 photo-journalist) to illustrate the importance of the quote.   Include the quote with title, author, and page number on the poster.

3.   Create a book cover for a book.   Examine a hardback book cover, first. What are the parts?   Front, spine, back cover, inside left flap, inside right flap.    Include all the parts for your book cover – and don’t copy/redo (plagiarize!) what the publisher created.

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.   In a well-crafted 300 word letter to me 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.

5.   5 Acrostic Name Poems

One for the protagonist, one for the antagonist, one minor character, the author, and the setting.   Illustrated or collaged, of course.   (You may not read To Kill a Mockingbird because we will read it together the second six weeks.)

For example,

S he is a young thing:

C hildish,

O utspoken

U tterly

T empted.

                                                To Kill a Mockingbird

6.   Make a poster that measures the author’s descriptive powers.   Five senses:   Seeing, Hearing, Touching, Smelling, Tasting.   Quote 3 passages for each sense.    Include some graphics or some art.

7.   Draw a 6- 8 panel color, cartoon that illustrates the plot of the book.   It’s the Sunday funnies.   Color, clever, classy!

8.   You think up something and e-mail me for feedback/input:   power point, 3-D project.   Surprise us!

As you read, keep a small reader’s journal in a spiral or on the computer.   You should have a page or two of notes.

jot down words and phrases that are new to you

identify main problems, events, ideas, or themes in the book

think about the importance of the story’s setting (setting is time and place)

       determine the author’s point of view and the theme

connect   the book to your experiences, to other books, or to what’s happening/or has happened in our world