Select one book from list and read to complete your summer assignment.

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1 Central Middle School 6 th grade Summer Reading List and Assignment Easy Lexile On Level Lexile Advanced Lexile The Boy in the 470 Angel Experiment 700 Sabriel 800 Basement Joyce Shaw James Patterson Garth Nix Boy at War 530 Middle School 700 Hunger Games 810 Harry Mazer James Patterson Suzanne Collins School Super Hero 560 Zoobreak 700 The Name of this Book is Secret 810 By: James Patterson Gordon Korman Pseudonymous Bosch Diary of a Wimpy Kid 580 Swindle 710 Code Orange 850 Jeff Kinney Gordon Korman Caroline B. Cooney Star Girl 590 Bird Lake Moon 740 Goose Chase 890 Jerry Spinelli Kevin Henkes Patrice Kindl Christina s Ghost 620 Schooled 740 Maniac Magee 820 Betty Ren Crash Jerry Spinelli My Teacher is an Alien Bruce Coville Small Steps Louis Sachar The Library Card Jerry Spinelli The Curse of King Tut s Tomb Michael Burges Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B. Cooney Gordon Korman 650 Who Ran my Underwear Up the Flagpole By: Jerry Spinelly 650 Dork Diaries Rachel Renee Russel 690 Test William Sleator 690 Treasure Hunters James Patterson 690 The Westing Game Ellen Raskin 660 Jerry Spinelli 740 Chasing Vermeer Blue Balliet 750 Peak Roland Smith Select one book from list and read to complete your summer assignment Scroll down for your reading assignment.

2 Please print and write in your answers. Central Middle School Summer Reading Assignment Book Title: 1. Author s Purpose: Entertain Inform Persuade (Why did the author write this?) 2. Genre: Subgenre: Ex: nonfiction, fiction, fable, etc Ex: autobiography, science fiction, fable, etc 3. Narrator s Point of View: 1 st person, 2 nd person, 3 rd person, etc. 4. Summarize the text: (five key events from beginning, middle, & end) 5. Exposition: a. Setting: (when and where the story takes place) b. Conflict:

3 6. Rising Action: List some events that occur before the climax Climax: (the turning point) 8. Falling Action: List some events that occur after the climax Resolution: (where the conflict is solved)

4 Central Middle School Summer Reading List 7 th Grade Easy Lexile On Level Lexil e Advanced The New Boy 410 Max 740 Don t Care High R.L. Stine By: Jennifer Li Shotz Gordon Korman Al Capone Does My Shirts 600 Downriver 760 Bad Boy: A Memoir Gennifer Choldenko Will Hobbs Walter D. Myers Al Capone Shines My 620 The Fourth Stall 760 The Wednesday Wars Shoes By: Chris Rylander Gary D. Schmidt Gennifer Choldenko Firegirl Tony Abbott A Girl Named Disaster Nancy Farmer Cracker! Best Dog in Vietnam Cynthia Kadohata 650 Life as We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer 730 Wonder Palacio, R.J. 730 Among the Hidden By: Margaret Peterson Haddix The Afterlife Gary Soto Crazy Loco David Rice Clay Marble Minfong Ho 770 Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy Gary Schmidt 790 Jade Green Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 800 Warhorse Michael Marpurgo Lexile Select one book from list and read to complete your summer assignment. Scroll down to view your assignment.

5 Please print and write in your answers. Central Middle School Summer Reading Assignment Book Title: 1. Author s Purpose: Entertain Inform Persuade (Why did the author write this?) 2. Genre: Subgenre: Ex: nonfiction, fiction, fable, etc Ex: autobiography, science fiction, fable, etc 3. Narrator s Point of View: 1 st person, 2 nd person, 3 rd person, etc. 4. Summarize the text: (five key events from beginning, middle, & end) 5. Exposition: a. Setting: (when and where the story takes place) b. Conflict:

6 6. Rising Action: List some events that occur before the climax Climax: (the turning point) 8. Falling Action: List some events that occur after the climax Resolution: (where the conflict is solved)

7 Central Middle School Reading List 8 th Grade Easy Lexile On Level Lexile Advanced Lexile Waiting for Normal 570 Gym Candy 710 The Million Dollar Throw 960 By: Leslie Connor By: Carl Deuker By: Mike Lupica The One and Only Ivan 570 Wintergirls 730 Boy on the Wooden Box 1000 By: Katherine Applegate By: Laurie Halse Anderson By: Elisabeth B. Leyson The Enemy 590 Ungifted 730 I d Tell You I Love You, But Then I d 1000 By: Charlie Higson By: Gordon Korman Have to Kill You By: Ally Carter The Selection 680 The Red Queen 740 What Jamie Saw 1010 By: Kiera Cass Winner s Curse By: Marie Rutkosi Speak By: Laurie Halse Anderson What Light By: Jay Asher By: Victoria Aveyard 680 Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four By: John Feinstein 690 Uglies By: Scott Westerfeld 690 Rot and Ruin By: Jonathan Maberry Game By: Walter Dean Myers Shadow and Bone By: Leigh Bardugo Scyth By: Neal Shusterman I AM MALALA: How one girl stood up for education and changed the world By: Yousafzai, Malala & Patricia McCormick You Don t Know Me By: David Klass Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes By: Chris Crutcher Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie By: Jordan Sonnenblick By: Carolyn Coman 760 The Egypt Game By: Zilpha Keatley Snyder 770 The Geography of You and Me By: Jennifer Smith Select one book from list and read to complete your 2 summer reading assignments. Scroll down for the assignment 1 and 2.

8 Central Middle School 8 th Grade Summer Reading Assignment # The Reader s Response Letter will be due the first week of school. Reader s Response Letter 1. Date, Greeting, and Signature Every letter must be dated at the top right, open your letter with Dear, and end with your signature. 2. Minimum of one page No letters should be less than one page on notebook paper or typed (14 font) 3. Title Somewhere in your letter, you must mention the title of the book. It must be correctly spelled and underlined. 4. Author You must mention the author s name somewhere in your letter and correctly spell it. 5. Maximum 5-line Summary Your letter should only have a maximum of five lines about the summary of the book. I do not want you spending the whole letter telling me what the book is about. The purpose of this letter is not to be a book report. What I want are the responses and connections to other things. (See #6 and #7) 6. Your opinions on the Book with Support Tell how the book made you feel and why. What did you like about the book and why? What did you dislike about the book and why? How did you feel about the characters and why? What would you change about the book if you could? 7. Connections Make connections between the book (parts of the book) and your life, another book, a movie, a poem, etc. I want to know what this book made you think about. 8. Recommendation Write a paragraph telling if you would recommend this book to anyone and who you would recommend it to and why? 9. Letter Format Paragraph 1 Summary (5 lines) Paragraph 2 & 3 answer #6 and #7 (the main part of your grade) Paragraph 4 your recommendation

9 Please print and write in your answers. Central Middle School Summer Reading Assignment # Book Title: 1. Author s Purpose: Entertain Inform Persuade (Why did the author write this?) 2. Genre: Subgenre: Ex: nonfiction, fiction, fable, etc Ex: autobiography, science fiction, fable, etc 3. Narrator s Point of View: 1 st person, 2 nd person, 3 rd person, etc. 4. Summarize the text: (five key events from beginning, middle, & end) 5. Exposition: a. Setting: (when and where the story takes place) b. Conflict:

10 6. Rising Action: List some events that occur before the climax Climax: (the turning point) 8. Falling Action: List some events that occur after the climax Resolution: (where the conflict is solved)

11 Central Middle School Summer Reading English 1 ( ) Principal: Mrs. Munoz Congratulations on enrolling in an Advanced English class. This type of class has greater demand on the student and will give you greater knowledge. One of the methods of acquiring said knowledge is through reading. That is why we are asking you, the students, who have enrolled in an advanced class to read the designated book for your grade level. When reading the book, please take notes. The book that you need to read will have a required assignment. Your assignment is included on this sheet. During the first week of school your teacher will give you a Pre AP contract for you and your parents to read and sign. The contract will explain the rigor and expectations of the advanced course and the repercussions if you do not do your part. All students planning to take English 1 Pre AP need to purchase Bulfinch s Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch and complete the assignment included in this packet. The assignment will consist of summarizing the stories and providing your analysis backed by text evidence. Students are not required to read the entire book, but students may choose to do so. Assignment: An incoming 8 th grader who has been accepted into English I Pre-Advanced Placement, will be required to read the following sections of the collection: Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable bythomasbulfinch Required Reading form Bulfinch s Greek and Roman Mythology: Perseus and Medusa The Golden Fleece Hercules

12 Summarize each story and give your analysis on each, write a full page on each story. The summary will be half a page and the analysis will be half a page for a total of one page. Text evidence must be included and used to back up your opinion and make sure the text is in quotes. You will be turning in a total of three pages on the first week of school. The assignment will be accepted hand written or typed. Note: All assignments must be submitted by 4:00 pm at the end of the first week of school. Any students who fail to submit their work will receive zeros for all assigned portions of their summer reading. FYI The following locations can be contacted to order the book. The Story Garden at (956) S. Texas Blvd #106, Weslaco, TX Barnes and Noble 4005 N. 10 th Street (956) *Amazon online is also a great source