8-Summer Reading Assignment 2012 - Pin Oak Middle School
8-Summer Reading Assignment 2012 - Pin Oak Middle School
8-Summer Reading Assignment 2012 - Pin Oak Middle School
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<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Reading</strong> for <strong>2012</strong>-2013 8 th Graders<br />
<strong>Pin</strong> <strong>Oak</strong> <strong>Middle</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
This year, 8 th Grade <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Reading</strong> will provide students with a “jump-start” on the required<br />
reading for our first, and subsequent, Independent <strong>Reading</strong> assignment(s). Throughout the year,<br />
students will read five independent reading books, and complete five Independent <strong>Reading</strong><br />
assignments (IRs).<br />
Each IR will involve reading a book from various assigned genres, completing written IR<br />
Questions, and completing a written IR Assessment. The IR questions and assessments will be<br />
covered with students in the Fall Semester when school starts.<br />
For now, we are asking that students read ahead over the summer.<br />
However, the written IR assignments that students will do throughout the year will require them to<br />
use specific details from the text. Therefore, we strongly urge you to buy copies of the books, so<br />
that the students still have the books in their possession when it is time to do the assignments.<br />
A tentative timeline for our Independent <strong>Reading</strong> assignments has been included below for your<br />
reference, and a list of suggested titles for each IR assignment is included at the end of this<br />
handout.<br />
IR Genre Timeline for <strong>2012</strong>-2013<br />
IR #1 – September – Mystery<br />
IR #2 – October-November – SciFi/Fantasy/Horror<br />
IR #3 – December-January – WWII/Holocaust<br />
IR #4 – February-April – Biography<br />
IR #5 – April – May – Free Choice<br />
Each IR Book must meet the following requirements:<br />
-falls under one of the genres requested for that particular IR assignment<br />
-is 200 pages or more<br />
-appropriate level of reading for your student(or higher)<br />
-parent approves of the book (we will collect signed parent approval forms throughout the year)<br />
-students who choose to read novels with movie versions will be asked to complete an extra<br />
“movie vs. novel” written assignment<br />
By the first day of school, all students should have completely read their IR #1 Book.<br />
The first IR assignment will be due approximately four weeks after school begins. Therefore, those<br />
students who are unable to complete their reading over the summer will still have the<br />
opportunity to successfully complete the reading in time for the first assignment due date.<br />
However, students who wait until school starts to begin reading their IR books will have to<br />
complete the required reading at the same time that they are doing other assigned homework.<br />
Thus, it is much better for students to get the reading done over the summer so they don’t have<br />
so much to juggle when school starts.<br />
And, it is even better for students to go ahead and read any of the books for IR assignments<br />
#2-5. Remember, the early bird catches the worm!<br />
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Suggested Titles for IR <strong>Assignment</strong>s<br />
NOTE: These are just suggestions. Students may select books not on this list provided that the<br />
books meet the previously described requirements and have parent approval.<br />
IR #1 – Mystery<br />
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie<br />
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie<br />
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter<br />
Last Shot by John Feinstein<br />
Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz<br />
IR #2 – SciFi/Fantasy/Horror<br />
SciFi<br />
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury<br />
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury<br />
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card<br />
1984 by George Orwell<br />
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson<br />
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins<br />
Fantasy<br />
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde<br />
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray<br />
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan<br />
Horror<br />
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley<br />
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare<br />
Shadowland by Meg Cabot<br />
The Maze Runner by James Dashner<br />
The Vampire Plagues I: London 1850 by Sebastian Rook<br />
IR #3 – WWII/Holocaust<br />
All but My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein<br />
The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender<br />
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac<br />
Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz<br />
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak Edited by Alan Adelson<br />
Eleanor’s Story – An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany by Eleanor Ramrath Garner<br />
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World<br />
War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston<br />
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom<br />
Hidden Child of the Holocaust by Stacy Cretzmeyer<br />
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson<br />
If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan<br />
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Updike<br />
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor by Laura Hillman<br />
In the Mouth of the Wolf by Rose Zar<br />
The Last Mission by Harry Mazer<br />
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli<br />
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel<br />
Parallel Journeys by Elanor Ayer<br />
Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen<br />
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<strong>Summer</strong> of My German Soldier by Bette Greene<br />
Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France by Renee Roth-Hano<br />
The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope by David Kherdian<br />
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne<br />
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen<br />
IR #4 – Biography<br />
For the biography IR, we encourage students to read about a subject in which they are not<br />
familiar.<br />
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang<br />
All but My life by Gerda Weissman Klein<br />
Angela’s Ashes by Frank Mc Court<br />
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Updike<br />
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angleou<br />
Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder by Tony Hawk<br />
Ryan White: My Own Story by Ryan White, Ann Marie Cunningham, and Jeanne White<br />
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers<br />
Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins<br />
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah<br />
Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton<br />
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah<br />
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret<br />
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey<br />
to Freedom in America by Francis Bok and Edward Tivnan<br />
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo Revised Edition by Zlata Filipovic<br />
Beckham: Both Feet on the Ground: An Autobiography by David Beckham & Tom Watt<br />
My Life and the Beautiful Game: The Autobiography of Soccer's Greatest Star by Pele<br />
Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog<br />
The <strong>Middle</strong> Place by Kelly Corrigan<br />
Enrique’s Journey by Sandra Nazario<br />
Falling Leaves: A Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah<br />
Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers<br />
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places<br />
by David F. Breashears<br />
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's<br />
Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals<br />
Go for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life by Mia Hamm<br />
When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago<br />
IR #5 – Free Choice<br />
Students can choose any book they haven’t read before that meets the previously described<br />
requirements and has parent approval.<br />
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