Grades 6 - 8

For all Grades:

Students are required to keep a composition journal for each novel by chapter (divide composition book in half with a tab), giving summary and important details of the chapter.   Journals should be used as a study guide to prepared for assessment and will be collected the first week of school.

 

SUMMER READING LIST – 6^TH GRADE                     

Required Reading:

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry                                                  

Choice of One:

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George                  

The Call of the Wild by Jack London         

 

SUMMER READING LIST – 7^TH GRADE    

Required Reading:

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Choice of One:

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

 

SUMMER READING LIST –8^TH GRADE  

Required Reading:

Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Choice of One:

Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

 

                             

June 13, 2008