Students and Parents/Guardians, 6 th Grade Summer Reading Assignment-2014 Chapman 2014 Thank you for taking time out of your summer to complete following assignment. I look forward to seeing results of all your hard work. Following is Summer Reading Assignment for Fall 2014: Choose one book to read from list below, and complete one project from list provided. These books were selected from historical fiction that will align with social studies content and from Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List for 2015. The KBA list is generated by Kentucky students who vote for most popular, well-liked books of year. Be sure to read and follow entire grading rubric! Projects will be presented during 1 st /2 nd weeks of school. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He's being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked streets of London. And he's got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a week to keep safe. But even for Eel, things aren't so bad until that fateful August day in 1854 day Great Trouble begins. Mr. Griggs, tailor, is first to get sick, and soon it's clear that deadly cholera "blue death" has come to Broad Street. Everyone believes that cholera is spread through poisonous air. But one man, Dr. John Snow, has a different ory. As epidemic surges, it's up to Eel and his best friend Florrie to gar evidence to prove Snow's ory before entire neighborhood is wiped out. Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is butt of everyone's joke. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. Rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold. His best friend, Red Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous, and she s right. With each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a curse. To break spell, Rump must go on a perilous quest, fighting off pixies, trolls, poison apples, and a wickedly foolish queen. The odds are against him, but with courage and friendship and a cheeky sense of humor he just might triumph in end.
Soldier Dog by Sam Angus With his older bror gone to fight in Great War, and his far prone to sudden rages, 14-year-old Stanley devotes himself to taking care of family s greyhound and puppies. Until morning Stanley wakes to find puppies gone. Determined to find his bror, Stanley runs away to join an increasingly desperate army. Assigned to experimental War Dog School, Stanley is given a problematic Great Dane named Bones to train. Against all odds, pair excels, and Stanley is sent to France. But in Soldier Dog by Sam Angus, war in France is larger and more brutal than Stanley ever imagined. How can one young boy survive and find his bror with only a dog to help? Doll Bones by Holly Black Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, y ve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Ruling over all is Great Queen, a bone-china doll cursing those who displease her. But y are in middle school now. Zach s far pushes him to give up makebelieve, and Zach quits game. Their friendship might be over, until Poppy declares she s been having dreams about Queen and ghost of a girl who will not rest until bone-china doll is buried in her empty grave. Zach and Alice and Poppy set off on one last adventure to lay Queen s ghost to rest. But nothing goes according to plan, and as ir adventure turns into an epic journey, creepy things begin to happen. Is doll just a doll or something more sinister? And if re really is a ghost, will it let m go now that it has m in its clutches? A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours walk from her home: she makes two trips to pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover African continent on foot as y search for ir families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya s in an astonishing and moving way. One for Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carley stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in ir cookiecutter-perfect household. Despite her resistance, Murphys eventually show her what it feels like to belong--until her mor wants her back and Carley has to decide where and how to live. She's not really a Murphy, but gifts y've given her have opened up a new future Project Choices for Summer Reading (all projects need to be presented in 3-5 minutes) 1. Write a of your favorite scene from your book and act it out with costumes and props (you can make a short video and have your friends be characters if you do not want to do a skit by yourself in class). 2. Create a 15 question test for book you read, detailing main ideas you would expect a reader to know after reading, and make an answer key (will be turned in, not given to class). 3. Create a comic book for book you read that is at least 6 frames of content, digital or hand written. You would show a scene important to and purpose of book. 4. Draw, paint, digitally create, etc., a picture of your favorite scene in book (Be CREATIVE) and write a 5 stanza (stanzas are like paragraphs, at least 2 lines per stanza) poem picture. 5. Make a PowerPoint book that highlights all structure elements (See rubric for details!). 6. Create an interview of 10 you would like to ask author of your book and write a to author addressing your. 7. Create a news story, article, news website detailing a main event in book. Be sure to include realistic elements of news media you chose to do. Must include headline, bylines, at least 2 pictures, and at least 2 articles add-ins like advertisements, wear, ect, are encouraged! 8. Write a song book, including musical elements, and sing/present to class. Must have at least 5 stanzas have fun and just Let it go! Rubric: Script 4 (24-20 points) identifies 3 (19-15) 2 (14-10) 1 (10-6) 0 (5 and below or did not present) two Written one Acts out but no written
setting and characters required elements required element an introduction 15 question test and answer key Comic book at least 6 frames, including text acted out is a fifteen question test with answer key that asks related to sequence (exposition, rising conflict, climax, falling resolution). At least 6 frames 6 and text book contains 14-9 test with answer key that asks sequence. 4-5 frames with less than 6 and text book contains 15 sequence but no answer key. 2-3 frames with less than 6 and text book contains less than 15 not sequence and/or no answer key 1-2 frames with less than 6 and text book Picture and poem NO ACROSTIC poems A poem of at least 5 stanzas with picture that both are of book. A 4 stanza poem with a picture that both are of book. A 3 stanza poem with picture that both are of book. A 2 stanza or less poem with no picture, picture, or a picture only. PowerPoint or Prezi slide for each: exposition, slide for five elements of. slide for four elements of. slide for 3 or less elements of.
rising conflict, climax, falling resolution. Author interview and Have 10 you would like to ask author and a written to m addressing your following format. Have 9-5 you would like ask author and written to m addressing your following format. Have 9 or less you would like ask author, but your does not follow format. Any combination of following: has 8 or less, no, or and no. News Story/Article/Media. Song. Must include headline, bylines, at least 2 pictures, and at least 2 articles A 5 stanza music and dancing. Includes all elements but has less than 2 of eir pictures or articles A 4 stanza music and dancing Is missing more than one picture, articles, or headlines A 3 stanza music and dancing. News article is not auntic, effort and creativity not apparent, missing major elements A 2 or less stanza song or all stanzas but no music or dancing. Questions----Contact Ashley.chapman@eku.edu Have a great summer! See you in fall!