Language Arts 7
Summer Reading
Requirements
Students Entering Grade 7
The students are to read three books.
Books One and Two:
Take a trip around the world by reading two of the books from this list. Then draw a Venn Diagram telling how the cultures, characters, or events of the two books were different and how they were similar. Use the Venn Diagram to write an essay according to this format:
Differences Similarities Differences
Students Entering Grade 7
The students are to read three books.
Books One and Two:
Take a trip around the world by reading two of the books from this list. Then draw a Venn Diagram telling how the cultures, characters, or events of the two books were different and how they were similar. Use the Venn Diagram to write an essay according to this format:
Differences Similarities Differences
Paragraph One: Briefly summarize the setting and conflict in the two books.
Paragraph Two: Tell how the cultures, characters, and events were different.
Paragraph Three: Tell how the cultures, characters, and events were similar.
Paragraph Four: Tell how reading these books expanded your understanding of other cultures and places.
Book Choices:
My Name is Parvana by Deborah Ellis. A teen-aged girls is arrested in Afghanistan. Is she working for the Taliban?
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer. A girl must save a group of bonobos – and herself – from a violent coup. The Congo is a dangerous place even for people who are trying to do good.
War Brothers by Sharon McKay. Jacob,the son of a wealthy landowner attends a Catholic school and Oteka lost his parents to AIDS and lives in a displacement camp that circles the city of Gulu in Uganda. They find themselves in the clutches of the Lord’s Resistance Army and have to escape.
Dear Blue Sky by Mary Sullivan. Shortly after Cass’s brother is deployed to fight in Iraq, Cass becomes penpals with an Iraqi girl who opens up her eyes to the effects of war.
My Own Revolution by Carolyn Marsden. Fourteen-year-old Patrik rebels against the communist regime in the Czech Republic in small ways whenever he gets the chance. However, anti-Party sentiment is risky, and Patrik and his family are faced with a decision and a grave secret that will change everything.
Buried Alive! by Elaine Scott. A true story about 33 miners buried alive two thousand feet below the surface in a mine in Chile.
No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis. Valli spends her days picking coal and fighting with her cousins in the town of Jharia, India. The sight that fills her with terror is the “monsters” who live on the other side of the train tracks, the lepers.
Inside Out and & Back Again by Thanhha Lai. This book tells the story of Ha' and the year she escaped from South Vietnam. It is written as a narrative poem.
Book Three
Read a book of your choice that is on your reading level. Write a paragraph including the title, author, main characters, conflict and how it was solved. Then write a paragraph telling why this book should or should not be on next year’s reading list.
Below is the rubric which will be used for grading the assignment.