Sacred Heart School
Summer Reading Program
Entering Grade 6, September 2011
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
By: Avi
Your Name: ___________________________________________
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Middle School Summer Reading Packet: GRADE 6
Throughout summer vacation, you will need to read The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
and complete this assignment, which is intended to guide your reading and focus your
thoughts. This assignment will be due in your Language Arts class on the first day of school.
By carefully completing this assignment over the summer, you will be prepared to discuss
the story in the fall and write an in-class essay.
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A. External Conflicts:
External Conflict: a character’s struggle against another character, nature, or society
(laws/rules/customs/traditions/expectations).
Identify at least two major external conflicts that Charlotte experiences throughout the
story and explain in a sentence what Charlotte learns about herself through these conflicts.
Choose a conflict from part one and part two of the book.
External Conflict
(CD – In the chapter…)
Part One
Ch. 1-12
1. Charlotte vs.
Part Two
Ch. 1322
2. Charlotte vs.
Page #
Lesson Learned
(CM –I think…)
B. Internal Conflicts:
Internal Conflict: a character’s struggle within themselves against opposing desires,
emotions, or responsibilities. There are at least two sides to internal conflict.
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Identify two major internal conflicts that Charlotte experiences throughout the story and
explain in a sentence what Charlotte learns about herself through these conflicts. Make sure
to choose a conflict from part one and part two of the book.
Internal Conflict
(CD –In the chapter…)
Part One
Ch. 1-12
1. Charlotte vs.
Part Two
Ch. 1322
2. Charlotte vs.
Page #
Lesson Learned
(CM –I think…)
C. Character Analysis:
How does Charlotte’s personality/attitude/outlook on life change from the beginning to the
end of the story? Use words and phrases to complete the t-chart below. Include at least four
points on each side of the t-chart.
Charlotte in the beginning
Charlotte at the end
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Write a sentence comparing Charlotte’s personality from the beginning of the novel to the
end.
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D. Theme:
Look at the list of words below. Then choose two that you would like to write about. What
would Charlotte say she has learned about each of these two words through her experiences
on the Seahawk? Write a 5 sentence paragraph using a 1:2 ratio (TS, CD, CM, CM, CS).
Remember your CD needs to be a book event or book quote that supports the word you
chose.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
comfort
friendship
loyalty
change
independence
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E. Character Analysis
Directions: Below are three supporting characters from the book. State their
reactions/feelings toward Charlotte.
Supporting Character and his opinion about
Charlotte
1. Zachariah
Concrete detail (CD) from the text that
supports character’s opinion
Page found ________
Book quote:
2. Captain Jaggery
Page found ________
Book quote:
3. Father
Page found ________
Book quote:
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F. Vocabulary Development
Directions: Look up each word on the page listed. Copy the sentence from the book and then
look up the word in the dictionary and write the definition that matches how the word was
used in the context of the book.
Word/page found
Ardent
p. 2
Sentence from book
Loathsome
p. 9
Decorum
p. 9
Docile
p. 13
Murmuring
p. 24
Punctilious
p. 71
Ominous
p. 103
Your choice
p.
Your choice
p.
Your choice
p.
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Definition
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