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Summer Reading Assignments for Children Entering 6th Grade

SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT
You are to choose three books, which you have never read, from the reading list.  You will be required to complete a separate assignment for each book chosen.

These will include:

• Written Report

• Quilt Square

• Newspaper

The specific instructions for each are found below.

1.  WRITTEN REPORT
Be sure to include all of the following information information when writing your report:

1. Title and Author

2. Setting and Characters

3. Main events in the story - a brief summary, 8-10 sentences

4. Whether you liked or disliked the story - giving specific reasons/examples to support your point of view.

5. Tell on thing that you would change about the story and why.

6. Conclusion - would you recommend this book to a friend or classmate?  Again, be specific in supporting your point of view.

7. Report may be handwritten, in script, or typed.  Cover may be hand done or computer generated.

2.  QUILT SQUARE
Be sure to follow these instructions when completing your quilt square.

1. Use the paper given out to complete the quilt square.

2. Draw your favorite scene from the book.

3. Be sure to include the title and author.

4. Write a creative description of the story.

5. Decorate the edge of the paper with a design related to your book.

6. All quilt squares must be done horizontally.

7. All squares must be hand done and colored.

8. Be creative, neat, and have fun!

3.  NEWSPAPER

1. Design the front page of a newspaper that might be found in the town where your story takes place.

2. Name your newspaper.

3. Include one article about the characters or events in your book on the cover of your newspaper.

4. Include at least one illustrated scene from your story.

5. Make your newspaper look as much like a real newspaper as possible.

6. Include additional information or ads that would be appropriate for the time period in which your story takes place.

7. The computer may be used for this assignment.

8. The more detail, the better the newspaper.

DUE DATES

• The quilt squares will be due Friday, Sept. 5th.

• The other two reports are due on Monday, Sept. 8th.

The most important thing to remember is to have fun and enjoy reading your books!!  I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing the reports in September.  I know they will be fabulous!!  Enjoy the summer; I'm excited to see all of you in the sixth grade.  I can't wait!  I know we're going to have a fantastic year together!!!!

READING LIST
For Incoming Sixth Graders

• White Fang - Jack London

• The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell

• Sarah Bishop - Scott O'Dell

• Sting Down the Moon - Scott O'Dell

• Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell

• Shiloh - Phyllis Naylor

• The Secret Garden - Frances H. Burnett

• Old Yeller - Fred Gipson

• The Soul of the Silver Dog - Lynn Hall

• The Witches  Roald Dahl

• Matilda - Roald Dahl

• Number the Stars - Lois Lowry

• The River - Gary Paulsen

• Brian's Winter - Gary Paulsen

• Dog Song - Gary Paulsen

• Dancing Carl - Gary Paulsen

• The Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushmann

• Lily's Crossing - Patricia Reilly Giff

• Maniac Maghee - Jerry Spinelli

• Crash - Jerry Spinelli

• Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech

• Cattail Moon - Jean Thesman

• Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George

• There's an Owl in the Shower - Jean Craighead George

• My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George

• Sounder - William Armstrong

• Our Only May Amelia - Jennifer Holm

• Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis

• Well Wished - Franny Billingsley

• Words of Stone - Kevin Henkes

• Getting Near to Baby - Audrey Couloumbis

• The Yearling - M. Rawlings

• Missing May - Cynthia Rylant

• The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli

• Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt

• The Borrowers - Mary Norton

• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

• Swiss Family Robinson - David Wyss

• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

• The Story of King Arthur and his Knights - Howard Pyle

• Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

• Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

SERIES BOOKS

• Agatha Christie

• Anne of Green Cables - L. M. Montgomery

• The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis

• Dear America

• Hardy Boys

• Johnny Dixon Mysteries

• Little Women

• Nancy Drew

• Redwall - Brian Jacques

• Star Wars Episodes

• Time Trilogy - Madeline L'Engle

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