May 2014
Greeting 7th graders who will shortly be 8th gradersYou are required to read two books this summer and complete an English Workout packet.
Mandatory reading: Wonder by R.J. Palacio and an additional book of your choice.
The choices are as follows:
The True Confession of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
The Maze Runner by James Dasher
Under A War-Torn Sky by Laura Elliott
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Summer Of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Tex by S.E. Hinton
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Hero by Mike Lupica
Boy At War by Harry Mazer
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Any book from the following series:
1.
Hunger Games
2.
Divergent
3.
Mother Daughter Book Club
4.
Princess Diaries
They will be creating a foldable or a PowerPoint for the book Wonder.
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Must include a short plot summary with the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and
resolution labeled.
It must have one paragraph about the theme. Remember a theme is a sentence, and there can be more
than one theme. But, you must be able to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
It must have 10 vocabulary words that you do not know with the part of speech and definition listed.
It must have one paragraph of 8-10 sentences about the author. Include when and where she/he was
born, what other works she/he has written, and if she/he has received any significant awards.
Include the tone-overall mood- and how the point of view supports the mood.
Include details from the book about settings of the book.
Have a paragraph about the main character. It needs to describe the character.
This also should have a picture.
For your second book, you are responsible for creating a side by side journal on the book of your choice. Please
make sure you use the following format and the directions below. You need to choose three important passages
from each chapter in the book and explain why they are important. Make sure you have three important
quotations/passages for each chapter with an explanation of each!!
Name: This is just an example of a side-by-side journal
Summer Reading Log 2014
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Chapter One
Quotation from book and page number
Face it, pulling a ditch is not something discussed with
dads. It’s like, against parental law to tell your kid it’s
okay to ditch someone, no matter how annoying or
muddy they might be .
page #__2__
Juli Baker is the kind of annoying person who makes a
point of letting you know she’s smart. Her hand is
always the first one up;
page #__8_
It would be a world with too many people to worry
about ever seeing Juli Baker again.
page #__10_
Explanation- why is this quotation important. Is it
important to the theme, mood, character development,
setting, plot summary, tone, etc. and then tell why?
This is an important passage because it starts to explain
the relationship the main character, Bryce, has with his
father. His father understands Bryce in a way his
mother does not.
This is important because it starts to show the
personality of one of the main characters, Juli. Juli is
smart and proud of it.
This is important because it foreshadows the rest of the
story. With a statement like this so early in the book,
the reader can tell that Juli will be important.
On the next page, you will find a blank format. Feel free to copy this format. You will need to make several
copies. You might want to put them in a three ring binder or find some other way to bind the pages so nothing
gets lost.
Name: ______________________________________________________________
Class- Summer Reading Log 2014 (title of book and author) _____________________________________
Chapter: _____________________
Quotation from book and page number
Explanation- why is this quotation important. Is it
important to the theme, mood, character development,
setting, plot summary, tone, etc. and then tell why?
page #_________
page #_________
page #_________
Chapter: _____________________
Quotes and page number
Explanation- why is this quotation important. Is it
important to the theme, mood, character development,
setting, plot summary, tone, etc. and then tell why?
page #_________
page #_________
page #_________
For Students Entering 8th Grade Summer Workout Packet
Name: ______________________
Complete all parts of this packet. This will be due the SECOND day of school. Be prepared. It will not be accepted
late.
WRITING: Part A: You need to write a paragraph about what you have been doing this summer. It should be
grammatically correct and at least one paragraph long (that is 7-10 sentences). Make sure it has a topic sentence and
a concluding sentence.
GRAMMAR STUDY: Part B: Complete each part of the instructions by following the directions for parts B1-B5.
Take the following sentence and write it four times on the back of this page for parts B1-B4. Label the sentence with
the correct parts and complete the instructions on that sentence.
B sentence: my cousin emma is the one who gave swimming lessons to your little sister in the summer
B1: Identify the parts of speech, including noun (types), pronoun (type, case, person), verb (type and tense), adverb,
adjectives, articles, prepositions, conjunctions (type), interjections, infinitives, gerund, participle
B2: Identify the parts of sentence including simple and complete subject; simple and complete predicate; direct
object; indirect object; predicate nominative; predicate adjectives; appositives; prepositional phrases(adj or adv);
object of prepositions; noun of direct address; infinitive phrase; object of infinitives; participle phrases, gerund
phrase
B3: Identify clauses (independent and dependent[adjective, adverb, noun]); identify the sentence type (simple,
compound, complex, compound-complex); identify the purpose:(declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative)
B4: Add capitalization and punctuation. Circle all additions in red.
B5: Diagram the sentence.
UNDERSTANDING SENTNECES: PART C: Tell whether the following sentence is a run-on; fragment; or
sentence in the first box. If it is a sentence, label it as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex in the
second box. Then, tell me the purpose of the sentence (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative) in the
third box.
s es ens
SENTENCE
1. When going to Disney World?
2. The students enjoyed going to Disney World.
3. Quit asking questions, and just be happy.
4. But we’ll only be able to stay for thirty minutes, if it takes us six
hours to get there and back, and we have to be back by 3:00.
5. No! I will not go with you!
6. She wanted to he did not.
7. When will we leave?
SENTENCE/ RUN-ON
OR FRAGMENT
Structure? Purpose?