Southern Regional Middle School

SOUTHERN REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

Summer Reading Program 2017

1. You must read at least THREE books this summer. TWO must be written by the authors from the attached list. One may be a book of your own choosing. All books selected should be appropriate for your reading level and have literary value.

2. Check out the books in your local library or bookstore. To get the most benefit from this assignment, choose a book you have not read. You are only cheating yourself if you don’t. Why not challenge yourself and choose a classic to read as one of your selections this summer?

3. Plan to read the entire book! If you don’t, your answers will show it.

4. Complete the written assignment which follows for ONE of the books. The book you choose to report on should be a fiction book. You will need to be ready to discuss the other two books when you return to school. They can be non- fiction.

5. This assignment is also posted on the www.srsd.net website. Your responses should be typed and submitted to your language teacher by Friday, September 8, 2017.

6. There are computers for your use this summer at the local libraries. You may also plan to stay after school on September 6th and/or 7th to use the school computer lab should it be necessary, although waiting until that late date is not encouraged. The assignment can be turned in until 3 pm on Friday, September 8.

7. This summer reading assignment will be part of your grade for MP1. Do your best. This assignment introduces you to your language teacher.

8. Consider the typing.com assignment at the end of this packet. Just 15 minutes a day will help you develop lifelong word processing skills. Response Requirements

Your Name Book Title Author Each response requires 8-10 sentences.

1. Choose two quotes, scenes, bits of dialogue and/or descriptions. Copy the text and page # for each, then discuss how it made you think or feel. Your discussion response should be 8-10 sentences for each.

2. In 8-10 sentences, explain why you would or would not recommend this book. Use examples to support your response.

3. In 8-10 sentences, explain what you think is the most important event in the book? Support your response with details from the story.

4. In 8-10 sentences discuss what you learned from the book that you can apply to your own life. Use examples to tell how.

5. Choose a symbol to represent the book. In 8-10 sentences, explain what the symbol is and why you chose that symbol. SOUTHERN REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

Summer Reading Program 2017

Authors of the Classics

Alcott, Louisa May Asimov, Isaac Bradbury, Ray Burnett, Frances Hodgson Carroll, Lewis DeFoe, Daniel Dickens, Charles Doyle, Sir Arthur Dumas, Alexandre Henry, O. Lewis, C.S. London, Jack Montegomery, L.M. Scott, Sir Walter Spryi, Johanna Stevenson, Robert Louis Tolkein, J.R. Twain, Mark Verne, Jules Wells, Orson Wyss, Johann David Author List

Adams, Douglas Alvarez, Julia Avi Barnhill, Kelly Bauer, Joan Bruchac, Joseph Card, Orson Scott Chrichton, Michael Christopher, John Cisneros, Sandra Colfer, Eoin Collins, Suzanne Cooney, Caroline Coy, John Creech, Sharon Farmer, Nancy Feinstein, John Grisham, John Haddix, Margaret P. Hamilton, Virginia Hinton, S.E. Horowitz, Anthony Hughes, Dean Jacques, Brian Klages, Ellen Kormon, Gordon Krakauer, Jon L’Engle, Madeline Lisle, Janet Taylor Lowry, Lois Lupica, Mike Myers, Walter Dean Napoli, Donna Jo O’Roark Dowell, Frances Paolini, Christopher Paterson, Katherine Paulsen, Gary Peck, Richard Pullman, Phillip Reiss, Kathryn Rowling, J.K. Rylant, Cynthia Riordan, Rick Seidler, Tor Soto, Gary Spinelli, Jerry Taylor, Mildred Taylor, Theodore Woodson, Jacqueline Yep, Laurence Yolen, Jane 4 - Outstanding 3 - Great 2 – Good Try 1 – Needs Work 0 – Get Em’ Next Time

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#1 Hunt-and-peck typing is inefficient!

#2 Hunt-and-peck typing takes your focus away from your ideas because you are instead focusing on how to type those ideas.

#3 After time, you will make fewer errors if you know the position of the keys.

Plan to practice for 15 minutes daily this summer and you will be much more competent with word processing by fall! Lessons are Free!

Go to:

https://www.typing.com/typinglessons