Summer Reading Study Guide
9 Academic
This study guide is designed to enhance your understanding of your summer reading novel. As
you read, focus on the changes the protagonist (main character) undergoes physically,
mentally, and emotionally. What conflicts occur as the protagonist interacts with his
environment and other characters?
As you read the book, complete the following charts and note sheets on characters, conflicts,
plot, and vocabulary. We also encourage you to make notes in your text (using underlining,
highlighting, writing in the margins and post-it notes) to mark important events as well as
sections that you find confusing.
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Name: _________________________________________________________________ Book Choice:___________________________________
Character Chart
Directions: Record information about each character that helps your understanding of the character, his/her traits, his/her role in the story and his/her effect
on other characters.
Character
Traits
Describe the character using key
quotes from the novel. Remember to
include the page number.
Role in the Story
Effect on other characters
Character Chart Continued
Character
Traits
Describe the character using key
quotes from the novel.
Remember to include the page
number.
Role in the Story
Effect on other characters
External Conflict Chart
Man v. Man: The struggle in a work of literature. This struggle may be between one person and another person or between society or nature. It may also be
between a person and himself or herself (internal conflict).
Man v. Society: The struggle in a work of literature. This struggle may be between one person and another person or between society or nature. It may also be
between a person and himself or herself (internal conflict).
Man v. Nature: The struggle in a work of literature. This struggle may be between one person and another person or between society or nature. It may also be
between a person and himself or herself (internal conflict).
Characters:
_______________
vs.
_______________
_______________
vs.
_______________
_______________
vs.
_______________
What is the root of the tension(s)?
What happens as a result of the tension(s)?
Internal Conflict Chart – Character vs. Self
Man v. Self: The struggle in a work of literature. This struggle may be between one person and another person or between society or nature. It may also be
between a person and himself or herself (internal conflict).
Characters:
_______________
vs.
Self
_______________
vs.
Self
_______________
vs.
Self
What is the root of the tension(s)?
What happens as a result of the tension(s)?
Story Flow Chart
START
FINISH
Vocabulary/New word Chart
Directions: Record words, phrases and/or concepts that you encounter in your reading.
As you define the words, be sure to use definitions that you understand!
Word/Concept
Page
Number
Definition
Sentence
Vocabulary Chart (continued)
Word/Concept
Page
Definition/
Number Interpretation
Sentence