THE ONE BOOK
(Grades 7-12)
Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World
By Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger
ISBN 0743294513
Reading by Grade Level:
7th
Maniac Magee
By Jerry Spinelli
ISBN 0316809063
10th
The Making of the President 1960
By Theodore H. White
ISBN 0061900605
8th
Milkweek
By Jerry Spinelli
ISBN 0440420059
11th
The Grapes of Wrath
By George Steinbeck
ISBN 0143039431
9th
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
ISBN 1400052181
12th
The Great Divorce
By C.S. Lewis
ISBN 0060652950
Lower Campus – Guided Reading
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Grades 4-6: 2 Books of Choice
Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World By: Craig and Marc Kielburger Summer Reading Assignment Instructions: Upon the completion of your reading of Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World, please compose essays to answer Questions 1 and 2. Each essay should be no more than 2 pages, typed, double-­‐spaced, 11 or 12 pt. font. Both the essays and the photograph assignment in Question 3 are to be turned into your Theology teacher on Friday, August 24. 1. Which story mentioned in the book impacted you the most? Why did this particular example speak to you? 2. It’s easy to say, “Well, I’m no Mother Teresa,” but, confronted with stories like these, it’s clear that you don’t have to be a saint—you just have to care enough to want to make a difference. Which social justice issue facing the global population today (such as the environment, climate change, poverty, economic injustices, healthcare reform, immigration laws, etc.) inspires you the most to want to make a difference like Marc and Craig Kielburger? Why is this issue so important to you? 3. Upon your return to school in August, please submit an 8x10, black and white photograph, which captures the essence of the social justice issue you chose to write about in Question 2. You do not necessarily need to be in the picture, and you also don’t necessarily have to take the picture yourself. For example, if you were writing about climate change, it would be appropriate to submit a black and white photograph of melting polar ice caps. Use your resources and be creative! Sixth Graders/Becoming Seventh Graders Maniac Magee By: Jerry Spinelli 1. Before reading the book, there are some vocabulary words that you will need to define to better understand the story. Please write the words and their definitions down in a notebook. Vocabulary Words: abruptly, accurate, befuddled, blemished, contortions, finicky, grungy, hallucinations, hoisted, incubating, instincts, lambasting, languished, meandering, mirage, nonchalantly, ornery, pandemonium, paralyzed, perilous, preposterous, repertoire, replicas, reprisals, robust, stoic, suffice, vanished 2. After reading the book, please answer the following questions. All answers should be in sentence form and each answer should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences. Of course, you are more than welcome to write more. Homes and Homelessness are very important parts of the plot. Notice his determination to have an address, even painting a number on the band shell. Notice when he erases it. If Jeffrey loves being with the Beales so much, why doesn’t he stay there from the beginning? How does Jeffrey define home? How do you define home? PROJECT: Divide a poster board into four sections. In each section, draw a picture of each of these homes: the Beales’, the Pickwells’, the McNabs’, and Earl Grayson’s. Color them and write a brief description of each of these homes. Then, on a sheet of paper, write a short essay on which one you would have chosen to love in and why. What Makes a Friend? Why do you think Amanda and Maniac became friends? By the end of the story, Maniac and Mars were developing a friendship. What do you think this friendship is based on? Write an essay describing what you consider the important qualities of friendship. 3. Finally, please rate this book. Use numbers from one to five, with one being the lowest and five being the highest. Please tell why and if you would recommend this book for someone else to read. Seventh Graders/Becoming Eighth Graders Milkweed By: Jerry Spinelli 1. Please read the attached pages. These will acquaint you with what the Holocaust was and some information about the Warsaw Ghetto where the story takes place. There is also a page with vocabulary that should help you understand your reading of Milkweed. 2. You will need a large, brown grocery bag. On the blank side of the bag, draw a new cover for the book on it. Color with crayons, etc. Be creative. Make sure it is neatly done. 3. Inside the bag you will include four items that signify something of importance from the book. You are to create and make them yourself. Again, please be creative and inventive. You do NOT need to spend money on this project. Once you have decided on the items and have placed them in the bag, you will then need to be able to talk and explain to the class about two of the items you draw from the bag. You will need to talk about each item for at least 1 to 2 minutes. Incoming Freshmen Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Summer Biology Project Students will answer the following guided reading questions and submit the answers online through the Turnitin.com website (instructions can be found at the end of this paper). 1. Chapters 1-­‐10: a. Based on the details in Henrietta’s medical chart, how would you describe her feelings regarding doctors? b. How did the doctors treat Henrietta’s cancer? c. What did you find the most interesting about Henrietta’s childhood and how she was raised? d. According to the information in Chapter 3, how are different types of cancer categorized? e. How did doctors justify using patients in public hospital wards as medical research subjects without obtaining their consent of offering them financial compensation? Do you agree or disagree with the doctors? Why? f. What is an immortal cell line? g. Where did the name “HeLa” come from? h. What did HeLa allow scientists to do for the first time? i. While most accounts suggest that Henrietta never met George Gey or knew about HeLa, Laure Aurelian says that Gey recounted meeting with Henrietta before her death. Do you find this story believable? Use specific facts about Henrietta, Gey, and/or medical practice in the 1950s to support your opinion. j.
Where does Cootie think Henrietta’s cancer came from? 2. Chapters 11-­‐20: a. Describe the progression of Henrietta’s cancer in the eight months between her diagnosis and her death. b. Why did Henrietta’s doctors need to ask for her family’s permission to remove tissue samples after her death? How did Day initially respond to their request? c. What unusual characteristics of HeLa cells made them ideal for use in the polio vaccine trials? d. Why was the development of methods of freezing cells an important scientific breakthrough? e. Why didn’t Henrietta’s family know that her cells were still alive? f. How are the white and black Lackes related? Who are their common ancestors? g. Summarize the various ways that HeLa was used in the space program. h. What did Stanley Gartler discover about eighteen of the most commonly used cell cultures? 3. Chapters 21-­‐30: a. What do the Lackes believe John Hopkins did to black people? b. What does the 1969 Johns Hopkins study reveal about the researcher’s attitude and assumptions about race? c. What specific request did Gey make prior to going into surgery? Why didn’t his surgeons honor his request? d. Explain how Henrietta’s real name became public knowledge. e. Why did researchers want DNA samples from Henrietta’s family? f. What facts about George Gey’s life support the idea that he never profited from the HeLa cells? g. Why did Ted Slavin start Essential Biologicals? Do you think this was a good idea? h. Summarize the pros and cons of giving patients legal ownership of their cells. i. How have laws regarding medical privacy changed since the early 1980s? j. Describe the contribution that HeLa has made to research on the HIV and the AIDS epidemic. 4. Chapters 31-­‐38 a. Contrast the experience Henrietta’s great-­‐grandchildren, Alfred and Davon, have at the Maryland Science Center with the experience Deborah, Sonny and Lawrence had growing up. b. Describe the conditions at the hospital during the time period when Elsie was a patient there. c. According to Deborah and Pullum, how is Henrietta’s story going to be different for Henrietta’s great-­‐grandchildren and future generations? Essay Questions: 5. How do you feel about the Henrietta’s cells being used by the scientific community? How would you feel about the use of her cells by scientists if Henrietta had been one of your relatives? 6. When Henrietta’s story first appeared in the mainstream media in 1976, many viewed it as one of race and racism. Do you think this is an appropriate way to interpret the story? 7. What issues regarding using humans in scientific research did the book discuss? 8. How have your views of science research changed after reading this book? To submit assignment go to Turnitin.com and create an account (in the upper right hand corner of the screen). Once your account has been created enter the Class ID and Enrollment Password to view and submit your assignment. Class ID: 5157833 Enrollment Password: Henrietta (Questions taken and/or adapted from the Random House Teacher’s Guide) Freshmen/Becoming Sophomores Election Project Based on “The Making of a President-­‐1960” 1. Create an alphabetical list of all fifty states then add the District of Columbia. 2. Show how many electoral votes each state has of 2012 and add in the District of Columbia (3) 3. Determine how many electoral votes each Presidential candidate needs to win the presidential election. 4. In your chart, show how each political entity voted for President in 2008, 2004, and the year 2000. As an example, you would have the following information: # of Electoral votes 2000 2004 2008 District of Columbia 3 D D D 5. Determine how many Republicans and Democrats make up the Congressional Representation of each state as of 2012. Ohio now has 18 electoral votes. Let us say, and I am making this up as I go along, we have 1 senator who is a Democrat, 1 senator who is a Republican, and of the sixteen others, twelve are Republicans and four are Democrats. Therefore, Ohio would have five Democrats and thirteen Republicans in Congress for a total of eighteen electoral votes. Check out the information for yourself. DC has no Congressional Representation so just put down the number three for electoral votes and check out the amendments to the Constitution as to why. 6. Now, with all of the information you have collected, create a new list of states and the District of Columbia and Predict how you think each political entity will cast their votes in November of 2012. You cannot be graded wrong on your prediction. You can only be graded on the accuracy of research. Will those states and DC vote for Barak Obama the Democrat, or Mitt Romney, the Republican? 7. You will also need the following for your project: A. 10 positive news articles n Barak Obama B. 10 negative news articles on Barak Obama C. 10 positive news articles on Mitt Romney D. 10 negative news articles on Mitt Romney E. The news articles and political cartoons can come from newspapers, magazines, or the internet 8. I would suggest 50 bonus points for those students who correctly predict the winner with the correct number of electoral votes. Those 50 bonus points can be used throughout the year. The project itself should be worth at least 200 points, but that would be up to the Social Studies Chairperson. 9. The project would be graded on accuracy of information, creativity, the amount of information, sources of news articles and political cartoons, and overall appearance. More is not necessarily better. 10. The book itself will give you great insight as to how political campaigns are run. You have a list of questions that are to be answered after reading the book or any other individual research you might find necessary to complete the entire project. The answers to the questions should be included with the final project. 11. The project is due the first week of school. For every day the project is late after the first week of school, I would suggest a deduction of 15 points. The Making of a President 1960 Questions to Answer 1. Provide a summary of Richard M. Nixon’s political career from 1948 to 1960 2. Provide a summary of John F. Kennedy’s political career from 1948 to 1960 3. Who contested Nixon’s nomination for president in 1960 if anyone. Give a summary of that person’s political career. There may be more than one. 4. Who contested Kennedy’s nomination for president in 1960? Give a summary of that person’s political career. There may be more than one. 5. What role did Kennedy’s Roman Catholicism play in Kennedy getting the Democratic nomination for president? 6. Who did Nixon chose to be his Vice President nominee? Why? 7. Who did Kennedy chose to be his Vice president nominee? Why? 8. Where did the Republicans choose to hold their nominating convention in 1960? Was there any special reason for that choice? 9. Where did the Democrats choose to hold their nominating convention in 1960? Was there any special reason for that choice? 10. In 1960 we as a country held the first televised debates between the presidential candidates. Was there a major issue in the debate? What was that issue? Who won the debate according to people who listened on the radio? Who won the debate according to those who listened on the radio? Who won the debate according to those who watched it on television? If there was a difference, explain the difference. 11. Who actually elects the President of the United States? How are those people chosen? Why do we have that system of indirect democracy? In 1960, what are the least amount of votes a state has to cast for president? Which state had the most votes? 12. The state of Illinois had a special place in the election of 1960. Why? 13. The state of West Virginia had a special place in the election of 1960. Why? 14. Create a map showing the electoral vote of 1960, showing the electoral votes to be won by each candidate and the actual popular voting results of each state. Color each state as to who won, red for Republicans, and blue for Democrats. 15. Create a map showing the electoral votes results in each state. Color each state as to who won, red for Republicans, and blue for Democrats. 16. In 1960, the residents of Washington D.C. could not vote for president. Why? 17. Research the electoral votes of Ohio in each presidential election from 1960 to 2008. Is Ohio a Republican state or a Democratic state? 18. Why was the election of 1960 one of the closest elections in American history? 19. Richard M. Nixon could have chosen to challenge the results of the 1960 election. Why did he choose not to do that? 20. John F. Kennedy was killed in 1963. What happened to Richard M. Nixon between 1960 and 1968? Sophomores becoming Juniors John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Summer English Project In this project, students meld together fiction, nonfiction, music, poetry, and art through their research on the Depression era and The Grapes of Wrath. Student interest in the historical novel is raised by using a multigenre approach. You will create a portfolio with the following: 1. A creative cover to your portfolio which clearly has your name, the novel, and at least one image that brings to life some aspect of the novel. 2. Create a Table of Contents which has the sections of the portfolio clearly identified. 3. Section A. Write a 2 page reflective essay that addresses what you found to be most memorable/interesting about the novel. 4. Section B. Find one article about John Steinbeck. Do not use Wikipedia. 5. Section C. In the 1930's the Midwestern states suffered an incredible drought. This area became known as the Dust Bowl. Many families were forced to stop farming their land or they lost their land and were forced to move to other places with the promise of work. One such migrant family, the Joads, was fictionalized by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath. Find at least 5 articles which discuss the Dust Bowl and the plight of migrants during the 1930s. 6. Section D. Choose two characters, and write a 1-­‐2 page description of each of them. Consider their personalities, values, and major experiences that highlight their character. 7. Section E. Quotes. Choose 4 quotes from the first half of the book and 4 quotes from the second half of the book. Write one paragraph about what is significant about each one. Paragraphs are 1/3 to ½ page in length. Record the page number where you found the quote. 8. Section F. Photo Gallery. Find at least 10 Depression-­‐era photographs of rural farm workers, as in the work of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Include these photographs. Write a 1-­‐2 page discussion about what these photographs mean to you and how they illustrate the time period. 9. Section G. Poetry. Write a poem that brings to life some aspect of the book. You might consider focusing in on one character, one significant event, etc. It’s up to you. 10. Section H. Find a song (recent or from the past) that brings to life some aspect of the novel. Perhaps the song might convey something about how the characters struggle. Maybe it’s a song about love, motherhood, pain, suffering, etc. Maybe you can find a song that brings to life one of the characters. Print the lyrics to the song out, and include a 1-­‐2 page discussion where you make interesting links between the song and the novel. Make sure that you include the time that the song was released and who sang it. 11.Section I. Art. Find at least one painting that captures something about the novel. Everything is fair game. Print out a color copy of the painting, and write a 1-­‐page reflection that connects the novel and the art. 12. Section J. Write a one page reflection of the ending of the novel. Why do you think the novel ended the way it did? Is this hopeful or hopeless? Was it satisfying? Discuss your thoughts. Additional information: • This project is due on the second day of class. We will be presenting these projects to the class for several days. • Each paper must be in MLA format (Times New Roman, 12 font, one inch margins). • All work must be yours. I want to hear your thoughts about this novel, not someone else’s. Theology Summer Reading Assignment The Great Divorce By: C.S. Lewis 1. The Catholic Church’s teaching on “hell” is that people freely choose to be in this state of existence. Based on your reading of The Great Divorce, what are some of the “hells” (sinful states or “sins”) that people chose to place themselves within? (Do not use those already mentioned in the story) Be sure to explain why you think people become so “engulfed” in these “hells” and why it is so difficult to be freed from them. Please answer in 1-­‐2 pages, typed and double-­‐spaced. 2. Using one of the “hells: you described in question 1, write another chapter to The Great Divorce of an overheard conversation between a Spirit and a Ghost. Be sure to use the same format and style used by Lewis. Do not use the same sins as mentioned in the story. Also, be sure to use the proper grammatical format of a conversation. This is to be 3-­‐4 pages, typed and double-­‐spaced.