• 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