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2017 Summer Reading Assignment for 6th and 7th Grade Students
Please choose THREE books from the Reading Olympic Reading List. For each book that you read you should complete the following on loose-leaf:Incoming 6th Graders:
A. Complete STORY ELEMENTS:
1. Title
2. Author
3. Setting (include major setting changes in
beginning, middle, and end))
4. Main Character(s) – give a description
including character traits
5. Beginning
6. Middle
7. End
8. My Opinion and WHY (give specific
examples to support your opinion)
B. Write a short summary:
LIMIT: 10 to 12 sentences (like you are
writing a book cover synopsis)
* MUST include your NAME (first/last) on all story element reports.
THIS WILL BE GRADED!
DUE the FIRST DAY of School!Incoming 7th Graders:
A. Create a PLOT DIAGRAM:
MUST INCLUDE:
1. Plot Diagram for: Title & Author
2. Exposition: introduce main character(s),
inciting incident, setting
3. Rising Action: ALL the major events
leading up to climax
4. Climax
5. Falling Action
6. Resolution
7. My Opinion and WHY (give specific
examples to support your opinion)
B. Write a short summary:
LIMIT: 10 to 12 sentences (like you are
writing a book cover synopsis)
* MUST include your NAME (first/last) on all story element reports.
THIS WILL BE GRADED!
DUE the FIRST DAY of School
2018 Middle School Book List Title Author Last Name Author First Name 100 year‐old Secret, The Barrett Tracy Ajeemah and his Son Berry James Among the Hidden Haddix Margaret Peterson As Brave as You Reynolds Jason Ashes Anderson Laurie Halse Awkward Chmakova Svetline Bad Island TeNapel Doug Black Star, Bright Dawn O'Dell Scott Boy Who Saved Baseball, The Ritter John H. Candymakers, The Mass Wendy Dateline: Troy Fleischman Paul December Stillness Hahn Mary Downing Dragon’s Keep Carey Janet Lee Eagle Strike Horowitz Anthony Echo Ryan Pam Munoz Ender's Shadow Card Orson Scott Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini Fleischman Sid Fever 1793 Anderson Laurie Halse Girl Who Drank the Moon, The Barnhill Kelly Gregor the Overlander Collins Suzanne I will Always Write Back Aifirenka/Ganda Caitlin/Martin Inside Out and Back Again Lai Thanhha Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories... Scieszka Jon Leaving Protection Hobbs Will Locomotion Woodson Jacqueline Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 2: Hammer of Thor Riordan Rick Midnight for Charlie Bone Nimmo Jenny Notes From a Midnight Driver Sonnenblick Jordan Notorious Benedict Arnold Sheinkin Steve Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, The Konigsburg E.L. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science Fleischman John Ruins of Gorlan, The Flanagan John Say Goodnight Gracie Deaver Julie So B. It Weeks Sarah Soar Bauer Joan Splendors and Glooms Schlitz Laura Amy Stella by Starlight Draper Sharon M. Supernaturalist, The Colfer Eoin Surviving the Applewhites Tolan Stephanie S. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler Hoose Phllip Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer Grisham John Titanic: Voices from the Disaster Hopkinson Deborah Virals Reichs Kathy Wonder Palacio R.J. Yellow Star Roy Jennifer