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Miscoe Hill School

Mendon-Upton Regional Schools

Mendon, MA

Summer Reading Assignment 2016

Grade 5 – pages 1-6

Grade 6 – pages 7 and 10-12

Grade 7 – pages 8 and 10-12

Grade 8 – pages 9 and 10-12

Grades 5-8 Common Core Suggested Reading Lists and Websites

pages 13-16

For a Summer Reading Challenge: http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/src-2016

FYI - Scholastic.com has helpful Parent and Student Pages with Reading Lists and information

about the value of Summer Reading

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Fifth Grade Summer Reading Assignment 2016 Miscoe Hill School, Mendon, MA

This summer you will be reading two books. You will choose a book written by one of the authors we have

listed below under the heading “fiction”. We have included the author’s website so that you will have a full

listing of their work. In addition, please choose a non-fiction book on one of the topics listed below under the

heading “non-fiction”. Your non-fiction book can be any format, but it does need to be a book. While you’re

reading, please use the note-keeping sheet provided (fiction, pages 2-3, nonfiction page 4). You will need to have

this at the start of the school year.

FICTION

Dan Gutman http://www.dangutman.com/ Avi http://www.avi-writer.com/ Andrew Clements http://www.andrewclements.com/ Jean Craighead George http://www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/ Jenny Nimmo http://www.jennynimmo.me.uk/ Sharon Creech www.sharoncreech.com/ Laurence Yep www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/yep.html - Wendelin Van Draanen www.randomhouse.com/kids/vandraanen/ Judy Blume www.judyblume.com/ Louis Sachar www.louissachar.com/

NON-FICTION American Revolution Ancient Civilizations Colonial America

Exploration Ben Franklin Paul Revere

Marie Curie Isaac Newton Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein Any President

***Spanish Immersion Summer Reading Assignment – 5th

Grade 2016***

Students entering fifth through eighth grade Spanish immersion are expected to read one

Spanish book of their choice as part of their summer reading assignment and should

complete the accompanying Spanish graphic orgainizer for their grade level. This should

be a book that they have not read before.

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Miscoe Hill School Fifth Grade

Note-keeping Sheet for Summer Reading

Use this paper to help you remember the story elements of your summer reading books. These story

elements include such things as characters and setting. When you return to school in the fall, you will be asked to share your book with your class through a project assigned by your teacher. The notes you write

on this paper will help you remember what the book was about and how you felt about it. There are no right

or wrong answers, just your own ideas. Please make sure you have this paper with you when you return to

school.

Title: _______________________________________________________

Author: _____________________________________________________

Setting: _______________________ _________________________ (time) (place)

Most Important Characters: (Circle the name of the one you think is the main character)

Names Who they are

_______________________ _______________________________

_______________________ _______________________________

_______________________ _______________________________

_______________________ _______________________________

What event happens to the main character to “kick off” the action in the story? (For example, the family moves

to a different town, or a hurricane comes, etc.)

How does the character feel about what happens?

What plans does the main character make?

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How do these plans turn out?

How does the story end?

What part of this story surprised you? (or puzzled you),(or tickled you),(or saddened you),( or excited you)

Rate this book from poor (one star) to excellent (five stars). Color in the number of stars.

poor fair average very good excellent

Who would enjoy this book most (example: a sports fan in grades 4-6)

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Miscoe Hill School Fifth Grade

Note-keeping Sheet for Summer Reading

Nonfiction

Title: _______________________________________________________

Author: _____________________________________________________

Subject: _____________________________________________________

List five facts that you found interesting.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

List any questions you still have after reading the book.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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Lectura de Verano para Quinto grado - 2016

Programa de Inmersión en Español

Usa este documento (apunte) para ayudarte a recordar los elementos del relato (la novela) de tu

lectura de verano. Estos elementos incluyen elementos tales como personajes y locación o ambiente.

Cuando llegues a la escuela en otoño, deberás compartir la lectura del libro con tu clase mediante un proyecto que

será asignado por tu maestra. Las notas que escribas en este apunte te ayudarán a recordar acerca de qué se

trataba el libro y cómo tú te sentiste acerca de lo que se cuenta en él. No hay respuestas correctas o equivocadas

(incorrectas), sólo tus propias ideas. Asegúrate de tener este documento cuando llegues a la escuela Miscoe.

Título: _____________________________________________________________

Autor: ______________________________________________________________

Locación: _________________________ __________________________

(tiempo) (lugar)

Personaje(s) más importante(s) (Encierra en una circunferencia el nombre del personaje más importante)

Nombre(s) ¿Cómo es cada uno? Descríbelo (a).

___________________________ ________________________________________

___________________________ ________________________________________

___________________________ ________________________________________

¿Qué situaciones le ocurren al personaje principal para iniciar la acción en la historia? (por ejemplo, la familia se

muda de casa o viene un huracán, etc.)

¿Cómo se siente el personaje principal con lo que ocurre?

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¿Qué planes hace el personaje principal?

¿En qué resultan esos planes?

¿Cómo termina el relato (o la historia)?

¿Qué parte de la historia te sorprendió (o te intrigó), (o te dio risa), (o te entristeció), (o te entusiasmó) ?

Evalúa este libro desde malo (una estrella) a excelente (cinco estrellas). Colorea el número de estrellas

Malo Regular Promedio Muy bueno Excelente

¿Quién sería la persona que tú crees sería quien más disfrutaría este libro? (ejemplo: un entusiasta de los deportes en

grado 4-6)

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Sixth Grade Summer Reading Assignment 2016 Miscoe Hill School, Mendon, MA

Each incoming sixth grader is required to read two books, one required, one your choice. Please complete a

graphic organizer (8 ½ x 11) for fiction books and a reflection sheet for nonfiction. (GO formats are on page 10

for fiction and page 12 for nonfiction.) Your literature teacher will have activities for you to complete when you

come back to school, and this organization of ideas will be helpful.

We encourage you to read additional materials of your choice throughout the summer.

***Please keep a list of other reading materials (novels, magazines, comics, etc.) this summer to share!***

Night of the Howling Dogs Graham Salisbury - Required reading for all incoming 6th

graders

Overview Dylan’s Scout troop goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The next

hours are an amazing story of survival and the true meaning of leadership. More amazing still is that this story actually happened!

Choose one book from either of the following lists:

Author List W. H. Armstrong Edward Bloor Scott O’Dell Jane Yolen Karen Hesse

Sterling North Lois Lowry Johanna Hurwitz Gary Paulsen Marguerite de Angeli

Betsy Byers Eve Bunting Mike Lupica Lloyd Alexander Kate DiCamillo

Lois Lowry Gordon Korman Andrew Clements Jerry Spinelli Madeleine L'Engle

Sandra Cisneros Rosemary Sutcliff Virginia Hamilton Susan Cooper Louisa May Alcott

Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin (nonfiction)

Nonfiction Topics (suggested topics)

Ancient Civilizations/Archaeology (Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome)

Mathematicians Inventions Advice Royalty

Scientists Rocks/Crystals Earth Science Astronomy

Writers/Poets Hobbies Travel Explorers/Adventures

How To/How It Works Natural Disasters (Jim Murphy)

***Spanish Immersion Summer Reading Assignment – 6th Grade 2016***

Students entering fifth through eighth grade Spanish immersion are expected to read one

Spanish book of their choice as part of their summer reading assignment and should

complete the accompanying Spanish graphic orgainizer for their grade level. This should

be a book that they have not read before.

Happy Reading! : )

6th

Grade Literature Teachers

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Seventh Grade Summer Reading Assignment 2016 Miscoe Hill School, Mendon, MA

Each incoming seventh-grader must read two books, one from the list of novels and one on a topic from the nonfiction

list. Please complete the graphic organizer on page 10 of this document for the novel. Students should also use the

nonfiction reflection sheet (page 12) for listing information about their nonfiction book of choice. Graphic organizers will

be used as a reference for the summer reading project, which students will be working on for the first few weeks of

seventh-grade English class. It would be helpful for students to purchase a copy of the novel they chose for summer

reading. Enjoy your reading! 7th Grade English Teachers

Choose ONE novel from the following list:

Fever 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance

and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a

wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967–68

school year in Long Island, New York.

Crispin and the Cross of Lead Avi Winner of the 2003 Newbery Medal, Avi's action-packed adventure, Crispin, transports us back to 14th-century England,

where a young serf on the run from his miserable past comes to discover not only his true identity but a sense of self-

worth.

Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s

struggle to be free. In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved

in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.

Choose ONE book from the following list of suggested nonfiction topics:

Countries Around the World (Europe, Africa, Asia, Central America, South America)

Mathematicians Writers/Poets Life Science Technology

Scientists Astronauts Genetics Nutrition

Inventors Artists Organs of the Body Musicians

Advice/Inspirational Environment Civil Rights Movement Cold War

***Spanish Immersion Summer Reading Assignment – 7th

Grade 201*** Eighth Grade Summer Reading Assignment 2016

Students entering fifth through eighth grade Spanish immersion are expected to read one Spanish book

of their choice as part of their summer reading assignment and should complete the accompanying

Spanish graphic orgainizer for their grade level. This should be a book that they have not read before.

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Miscoe Hill School, Mendon, MA

Required Summer Reading Assignment for All Incoming 8th

Graders:

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Overview: A heroic story of friendship and belonging

No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on

his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for

him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. And when it comes to the Socs—a vicious gang of rich kids who enjoy beating up on

"greasers" like him and his friends—he knows that he can count on them for trouble. But one night someone takes things

too far, and Ponyboy's world is turned upside down...

Choose one additional novel or the nonfiction book from the reading list

and complete the 8th

grade graphic organizer for each (GO fiction format on page 10; nonfiction recording sheet on

page 12):

The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way by Joy Hakim: Readers will travel back in time to ancient

Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and

ideas of such famous people as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Brahmagupta, al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Ptolemy, St. Augustine, and St.

Thomas Aquinas. Hakim will introduce them to Aristotle—one of the greatest philosophers of all time—whose scientific ideas

dominated much of the world for eighteen centuries.

Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton: Rusty-James is the top tough guy among junior high kids, but what he wants most of all is to be just like

his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy, the toughest, most respected street fighter.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London: Part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, Buck is a sturdy crossbreed canine accustomed to a

comfortable life as a family dog -- until he's seized from his pampered surroundings and shipped to Alaska to be a sled dog. There, the forbidding

landscape is as harsh as life itself during the gold rush of the 1890s.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his

belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far away,

where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new

place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own,

and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

***Spanish Immersion Summer Reading Assignment – 8th

Grade 2016***

Students entering fifth through eighth grade Spanish immersion are expected to read one Spanish book

of their choice as part of their summer reading assignment and should complete the accompanying

Spanish graphic orgainizer for their grade level. This should be a book that they have not read before.

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Novel Title

Author

Setting Time and place that

the story takes place

Characters Main characters in the

story and a word to

describe each of them

Conflict What is the main

problem in the story

that must be

overcome?

Climax What is the high

point of action in the

story? What is it

that you are waiting

for to happen?

Resolution How is the main

problem in the story

solved?

Grades 6-8 Summer Reading Graphic Organizer Format for Fiction

Please create a graphic organizer for the novel you have chosen. Below is a sample showing you

how to get started with this assignment. Your organizer should be complete by the first day of

school.

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Español Inmersión 6, 7, 8 – 2016

Nombre: __________________________________________________Fecha: ____________________

Por favor, crea un organizador gráfico categorizado. Abajo hay un ejemplo que te muestra cómo iniciar este trabajo.

Título de la novela Autor

Locación o ambiente

Tiempo y lugar(es) en

donde sucedieron los

eventos

Personaje(s)

Los más importantes

personajes en el relato y

una oración que describa

cada uno de ellos.

Climax

¿Cuál es el punto más

relevante (el punto

culminante) de la acción?

¿Qué es lo que tú estás

esperando que vaya a

suceder?

Conflicto ¿ Cuál es el principal

problema en el relato que

debe ser resuelto?

Resolución

¿Cómo se resolvió el

problema más importante

del relato?

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Miscoe Hill School Grades 6-8

Summer Reading Nonfiction Reflection Sheet

Title: _______________________________________________________

Author: _____________________________________________________

Subject: _____________________________________________________

Please type or write ten facts you found interesting.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

What made you choose this topic? Thoughtfully reflect about what you learned and its significance to you, the community, the world.

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For a complete Common Core Standards Recommended Reading List with sample performance tasks, visit:

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf

Grades 4–5 Text Exemplars

Stories Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden

Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. The Little Prince Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. “Zlateh the Goat.”

Hamilton, Virginia. M. C. Higgins, the Great

Erdrich, Louise. The Birchbark House

Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy

Lin, Grace. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Poetry Blake, William. “The Echoing Green.”

Lazarus, Emma. “The New Colossus.”

Thayer, Ernest Lawrence. “Casey at the Bat.”

Dickinson, Emily. “A Bird Came Down the Walk.”

Sandburg, Carl. “Fog.”

Frost, Robert. “Dust of Snow.”

Dahl, Roald. “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.”

Nichols, Grace. “They Were My People.”

Mora, Pat. “Words Free As Confetti.”

Informational Texts Berger, Melvin. Discovering Mars: The Amazing Story of the Red Planet

Carlisle, Madelyn Wood. Let’s Investigate Marvelously Meaningful Maps

Lauber, Patricia. Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms

Otfinoski, Steve. The Kid’s Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It, Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It

Wulffson, Don. Toys!: Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions

Schleichert, Elizabeth. “Good Pet, Bad Pet.”

Kavash, E. Barrie. “Ancient Mound Builders.”

Koscielniak, Bruce. About Time: A First Look at Time and Clocks

Banting, Erinn. England the Land

Hakim, Joy. A History of US

Ruurs, Margriet. My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World Simon, Seymour. Horses.

Montgomery, Sy. Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea

Simon, Seymour. Volcanoes

Nelson, Kadir. We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

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Cutler, Nellie Gonzalez. “Kenya’s Long Dry Season.”

Hall, Leslie. “Seeing Eye to Eye.”

Ronan, Colin A. “Telescopes.”

Buckmaster, Henrietta. “Underground Railroad.”

Grades 6–8 Text Exemplars

Stories Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time

Cooper, Susan. The Dark Is Rising

Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings

Hamilton, Virginia. “The People Could Fly”

Paterson, Katherine. The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks

Cisneros, Sandra. “Eleven.”

Sutcliff, Rosemary. Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad

Drama Fletcher, Louise. Sorry, Wrong Number

Goodrich, Frances and Albert Hackett. The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play

Poetry Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Paul Revere’s Ride.”

Whitman, Walt. “O Captain! My Captain!”

Carroll, Lewis. “Jabberwocky.”

Navajo tradition. “Twelfth Song of Thunder.”

Dickinson, Emily. “The Railway Train.”

Yeats, William Butler. “The Song of Wandering Aengus.”

Frost, Robert. “The Road Not Taken.”

Sandburg, Carl. “Chicago.”

Hughes, Langston. “I, Too, Sing America.”

Neruda, Pablo. “The Book of Questions.”

Soto, Gary. “Oranges.”

Giovanni, Nikki. “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.”

Informational Texts: English Language Arts Adams, John. “Letter on Thomas Jefferson.”

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Written by Himself

Churchill, Winston. “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940.”

Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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Informational Texts: History/Social Studies United States. Preamble and First Amendment to the United States Constitution. (1787, 1791)

Lord, Walter. A Night to Remember

Isaacson, Phillip. A Short Walk through the Pyramids and through the World of Art Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire

Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie

Monk, Linda R. Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution Freedman, Russell. Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical Subjects Macaulay, David. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

Mackay, Donald. The Building of Manhattan

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

Peterson, Ivars and Nancy Henderson. Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone

Katz, John. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho

Petroski, Henry. “The Evolution of the Grocery Bag.”

“Geology.” U*X*L Encyclopedia of Science

“Space Probe.” Astronomy & Space: From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch “Elementary Particles.” New Book of Popular Science

California Invasive Plant Council. Invasive Plant Inventory

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MA Framework Suggested http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/ela/0111.pdf

Suggested Contemporary Authors and Illustrators

Suggested Authors in World Literature

Grades 5-8, in addition to the Pre-K-4 selections Traditional literature

Grimm’s’ fairy tales

French fairy tales Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Rudyard Kipling

Aesop’s fables

Greek, Roman, or Norse myths

Stories about

King Arthur, Robin Hood,

Beowulf and Grendel,

St. George and the Dragon

Myths and legends of indigenous

peoples of North, Central and

South America

American folktales and legends

Asian and African folktales

and legends

The Bible as literature:

Old Testament: Genesis, Ten

Commandments,

Psalms and Proverbs

New Testament:

Sermon on the Mount, Parables American Authors and Illustrators

Louisa May Alcott

Lloyd Alexander

Isaac Asimov

Natalie Babbitt

L. Frank Baum

Nathaniel Benchley

Ray Bradbury

Carol Ryrie Brink

Elizabeth Coatsworth

Esther Forbes

Paula Fox

Jean Craighead George

Virginia Hamilton

Bret Harte

O. Henry

Washington Irving

Jack London

L.M. Montgomery

Sterling North

Scott O’Dell

Edgar Allan Poe

Howard Pyle

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Elizabeth Speare

Booth Tarkington

James Thurber

Mark Twain

E. B. White

N. C. Wyeth British Authors and Illustrators

James Barrie

Lucy Boston

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Lewis Carroll

Carlo Collodi

Daniel Defoe

Charles Dickens

Arthur Conan Doyle

Leon Garfield

Kenneth Grahame

Rudyard Kipling

C. S. Lewis

George MacDonald

Edith Nesbit

Mary Norton

Philippa Pearce

Arthur Rackham

Anna Sewell

William Shakespeare

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Johanna Spyri

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jonathan Swift

Rosemary Sutcliff

J.R.R. Tolkien

T.H. White British and American Poets

William Blake

Lewis Carroll

Stephen Vincent &

Rosemarie Carr Benét

John Ciardi

Rachel Field

Robert Frost

Langston Hughes

Edward Lear

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

David McCord

Ogden Nash

Richard Wilbur

Selections for Grades PreK–8 have been reviewed by the editors of The Horn Book.