Westerly Bulldog
Summer Reading
Challenge
Essential Question
What does it mean to be a hero?
We know, you have an idea of what it means to be a hero.
We want you to E-X-P-A-N-D your understanding.
Essential Question What does it mean to be a hero?
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How do you expand your understanding?
You are required to read two books this summer of your choice.
Using at least one of the books, if not both, answer the essential
question - What does it mean to be a hero? = by creating a product.
Your product can be an essay or any other way you want to
express yourself.
The superhero illustrations are for fun. When you read and work
on your product, remember we mean real life heroes - ordinary
people who do extraordinary things.
You may want to express your ideas differently. An
essay isn’t for everyone.
Design a Product
around what it means to be a hero
Here are a few possibilities:
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Build a model
Write a poem
Create a playlist of songs that encompass the character traits of a hero
from your book.
Comic strip
Design a blog
Create a fact sheet
Make a video
How about a children’s book
Vlogging
The sky’s the limit - Have Fun!!!!
When you complete the challenge, Bring your product to the
library and Have your name added to the list.
● You’ll get a ticket for an outside lunch!
● Hear your name during announcements and see your product
on the big screen!!
● when enough products have been turned in, Ms. Fusco, Mr.
List, Mr. Fusaro, and Mr Cronin will dress as superheroes
for a day!!!
You can make it happen by completing the challenge
Bulldog
Challenge
When you complete the
challenge, Bring your product to
the library and Have your name
added to the list.
●
You’ll get a ticket for an
outside lunch!
●
Hear your name during
announcements and see your
product on the big screen!!
●
when enough products have
been turned in, Ms. Fusco,
Mr. List, Mr. Fusaro, and
Mr Cronin will dress as
superheroes for a day!!!
You can make it happen by
completing the challenge
You may want to express your
ideas differently. An essay
isn’t for everyone.
Design a Product
around what it means to be a
hero
Here are a few possibilities:
● Build a model
● Write a poem
● Create a playlist of
songs that encompass
the character traits of a
hero from your book.
● Comic strip
● Design a blog
● Create a fact sheet
● Make a video
● How about a children’s
book
● Vlogging
● The sky’s the limit Have Fun!!!!
Bulldog
Challenge
Westerly Middle School
.5th and 6th Grade Book Selections
The Red Pencil. By Andrea Davis Pinkney
Finally, Amira is twelve when life in her Sudanese
village is shattered. Terrifying attackers ravage the
town and unleash unspeakable horrors. Amira
needs to find the strength to make the long journey
to safety at a refugee camp.
The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
Mark is sick. The kind of sick that means hospitals.
And treatments. The kind of sick some people never
get better from. So Mark runs away. He leaves home
with his camera, his notebook, his dog, and a plan to
reach the top of Mount Rainier--even if it's the last
thing he ever does.
Essential Question
What does it mean to
be a hero?
You are required to read two
books this summer of your choice.
Using at least one of the books,
if not both, answer the essential
question.
Your product can be an essay or
any other way you want to express
yourself.
Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese
Boy by Rhoda Blumberg, the true story of Fourteen
year old Manjiro. Shipwrecked, he survives for
months on a desert island before being rescued . He
is exiled from his country and has adventures all
around the world before risking his life to return to
Japan at the age of 20.
El Deafo Grades by Cece Bell
All the other students at Cece's old school were deaf
and didn't care about her Phonic Ear. At her new
school, the device she needs seems to be repelling
The superhero illustrations are
for fun. When you read and work
on your product, remember we mean
real life heroes - ordinary people
who do extraordinary things.
.7th and 8th Grade Book Selections
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and
the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2015, ISBN: 9780374300227 A group of
teenagers in Denmark resist the Nazi invasion of
their country and inspire others to follow suit in this
award-winning nonfiction book.
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt Penguin/Nancy
Paulsen Books, 2015, ISBN: 9780399162596 Ally
struggles to hide her dyslexia by continually getting
into trouble, until a substitute teacher discovers
what she is really hiding.
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. By
Don Brown. Illus. by the author. HMH. Heroes surface,
and people find courage in this exceptional graphic
novel that addresses incompetence, racism, and the
resilience of the people of the Crescent City. (Sibert
Honor Book)Want to Read saving…Intense nonfiction
graphic novel chronicles 2005 disaster.
First Flight around the World: The Adventures of the
American Fliers Who Won the Race. By Tim Grove.
illus. Abrams.
In 1924, a group of brave men faced violent weather,
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans Book
Reviewunreliable navigation, crashes, and
unfamiliar foreign cultures in their goal to win the