American Heritage Lower School
Summer Reading Requirements
Entering Sixth Grade
2013
American Heritage strongly emphasizes reading. Therefore, we encourage our
students to continue reading during the summer months. Each grade level
reading committee has carefully chosen these books.
We hope you enjoy shopping with your child, allowing them to select their favorite
books from this extensive list. Please note that any of the books listed could go
out of print without notice. If this should occur, please make another selection
from the list provided.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact
the Lower School Media Center at (954)472-0022 ext. 3089,
Fax: (954)472-0573, Email: [email protected]
Grade Six
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
Sixth Grade Requirements:
Students are required to read both Hatchet and Hoot. They
must follow the reading book report form provided on Edline
for Hatchet. The book report will be collected on the first day
of school. However, it will not count as a literature grade.
Instead, the teacher will add 10 points to the grade you earned
on the Hoot test. Any book report form that is partially
completed or plagiarized will receive zero (0) points.
Please bring a typed copy of your book report form to your
Language Arts class on the first day of school. Save an
electronic copy to be turned in on turnit.com. During the first
week of school, all students will be given a reading
comprehension test on Hoot. If you are in Honors Literature,
you will take a comprehension test on both Hatchet and Hoot.
American Heritage Summer Reading Assignment th
Incoming 6 Grade Name: ___________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
Author: __________________________________
1. Genre:
Realistic Fiction
Mystery
Historical
Fantasy
Non-fiction
Biography
Science Fiction
Adventure
2.
Characters: List three major characters in
order of their importance to the plot and write a
description about each of them in at least three
sentences.
3.
Tell how a character has changed over the
course of the novel:
4.
Setting (Time and Place):
5.
Conflict (Describe the main character's problem):
6.
Resolution (Describe how the problem was
solved):
7.
Plot (List the main events from the story in
sequential order):
8.
Theme (What lesson(s) has the character learned
over the course of the novel?):
9.
Review: I do/do not recommend this book
because... (Support with details from the text):