2018-19 ocms 8th grade Summer Reading
Grade h t 8 g e takin please se s t n e, Stud ated ELA your r er Accel s. Sakie fo ies. Mr ibilit s n o p res 1. All 8th Graders Are EXPECTED to read and respond to at least THREE books.
2. All are responsible for picking one of the following:
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to The Giver, including Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
50 years of an iconic classic! This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is 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. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on greasers like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect until the night someone takes things too far.
Young Adult, Parent/Guardian Permission Required
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel d Hiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel d Hiv s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode. Young Adult, Parent/Guardian Permission Required
Young Adult, Parent/Guardian Permission Required
When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can t resist books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
3. All are responsible for choosing two other books to read.
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4. Submit your reader response for your first 3 books online at ocpl
EAsy Reader Response Prompts First and last name Name of school 2018-19 Grade Level Email Address
EAsy Reader Response Prompts Choose ONE and respond: A. What is an important theme/big idea of the book? Explain what in the text helped develop that theme? OR B. Choose a quote that you feel to be very significant to important to the text. Record that quote and justify its significance. OR C. How did the protagonist change throughout the course of the book? What caused or contributed to that change?
EAsy Reader Response Prompts On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being terrible and 5 amazing, how would you rate this text?
Responses Due Friday, August 31, 2018
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