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Grade 8 Summer Reading
(for previous 7th graders -  rising 8th graders)

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Students will read the following readings  to complete the summer reading assignment below.   Books can be purchased online or at most bookstores and can usually be found at most public libraries.  In addition, students can use “Learning Ally” to read and  listen to the book.

This assignment will be the 1st assessment grade for the marking period. It is due the 1st week of school.

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Task:

- Examine the list of summer reading novels for your grade level.

Select one that you will read for your task.


- As you read your selected novel, track central events, characters, and conflicts. Additionally, focus on more in depth concepts, such as character motivations (why they do what they do), author’s choices, writing style, themes, and etc. 


- For your novel, select four quotes total (from the beginning, middle, and end of the novel). Your quotes should be significant to the novel. (Keep in mind: plot, character, conflict, motivation, author’s choices, writing style, themes, and etc.)


Create a T chart with the quotes on the left (include the page number), and a one paragraph

analysis on the right. 


- You analysis should follow the one paragraph expectations for your grade level. Your paragraph should clearly explain the significance of your selected quote. You should develop your ideas fully and proofread for clarity.

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Example:

Name:
Novel: “V for Vendetta”
Author: Alan Moore & David Lloyd
Due Date:


Analysis
“‘I believe in strength. I believe in unity. And if that strength, that unity of purpose, demands a uniformity of thought, word and deed then so be it. I will not hear talk of freedom. I will not hear talk of individual liberty. They are luxuries. I do not believe in luxuries’” (Moore and Lloyd, issue ii, pg 2).

 

Quote

It is very hard to put ourselves into the position of dictators. After WWII, Hitler was seen, and is still seen, as the ultimate evil; an evil that should not happen again. However, in “V for Vendetta” by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, the authors choose to give the reader the dictator’s perspective. By doing this, readers are given an interesting view into the motivation of characters that they normally would not understand. In this quote, Adam Susan (the dictator) defends his perspective on fascism by indicating that the community can only be strong and survive if the people are united in “thoughts, word and deed.” To do this, his people must sacrifice their freedom. This theme centered on freedom is what drives the novel, one character fighting to give the people freedom, and the other taking the people’s freedom away. 
 

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Choices

by S.E. Hinton 
Lexile 750
Pages: 208


Overview: Ponyboy can count on his brothers and his friends, but not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids who get away with everything, including beating up greasers like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect--until the night someone takes things too far. 

THE OUTSIDERS

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Choices

by Suzanne Collins 
Lexile 810
Pages: 384


Overview:  In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the other districts in line by forcing them to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight-to-the-death on live TV. One boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and sixteen are selected by lottery to play. The winner brings riches and favor to his or her district. But that is nothing compared to what the Capitol wins: one more year of fearful compliance with its rule. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her impoverished district in the Games.

HUNGER GAMES

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Choices

by Ernest Cline 
Lexile 970
Pages: 375


Overview: Welcome to the OASIS, a hyper-realistic, 3D, video game paradise. It's 2045, and pretty much everyone logs in to the OASIS daily to escape their terrible lives, lives affected by overpopulation, unemployment, and energy shortages. Eighteen-year-old Wade Watts is one of these people, and he has a mission: to find an Easter egg hidden inside the OASIS by its wackadoodle creator, James Halliday.

READY PLAYER ONE

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