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4th Grade Summer Reading 2020 Each scholar rising into 4th grade must read the required text (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl) and complete the accompanying assignment. This will be due on the first day of school (Thursday, August 13). Scholars will discuss the summer reading text as a class when they return to school in August, so teachers are expecting scholars to do this assignment well in order to contribute to class discussions and complete other assignments. Please follow the directions in order to ensure success for this assignment. Scholars should pace themselves in order to complete this assignment before school begins. Assignments submitted after the due date will incur a 25% late penalty until Monday, August 17, and a 50% penalty until Wednesday, August 19. Scholars who enroll at CPS after August 3, 2020, will have two weeks (ten school days) to complete their work. Scholars who enroll after August 24, 2020, are excused from this assignment. REQUIRED TEXT Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl ISBN: 978-0-142-41031-8 If scholars would like to read additional books, several suggestions are listed below. Novel Author Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls The Black Stallion Walter Farley Peter Pan J.M. Barrie Old Yeller Fred Gipson Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Reading Assignment: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a fun classic book filled with adventure, witty characters, and good life lessons. We are so excited for you to read it! Enjoy! IMPORTANT DIRECTIONS: As you read this novel, please complete the following assignment. When asked to answer a question, you should write your answers in complete sentences on a piece of lined paper and follow any specific instructions provided. If you are asked to include a quote and page numbers, you should format it like the example below: ● Johnny was a “strong and courageous” young boy (page 53). ● “Johnny was the best student I ever had” (page 137). ● “dark hair,” “kind eyes,” loyal to friends (pages 3, 18). ● REMEMBER TO DO THE FOLLOWING: ● Print out the assignment ● Put your name and the due date (08/13/2020) in the upper right hand corner of your lined loose-leaf paper ● Title the page, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Assignment ● Number your paper from 1-20, skipping lines ● Use neat handwriting (cursive preferred) and write in pencil ● When answering questions, use POQITA: Part of the Question in The Answer ● Capitalize the first word in the sentence and propers nouns (names of people/characters and places) ● Use punctuation at the end of the sentence. 1 Name: ________________________________________ Date: _____________________ Print Scholar’s Name 4th Grade Summer Reading 2020 Before submitting your assignment, please print out this rubric and attach it to your work. Staple the packet together with the rubric on top. The scholar and a parent should sign below, indicating that this work is the scholar’s. Submit the following on the first day of school: ● Signed Rubric = pg. 2-4 ● Character Chart = pg. 5-6 ● Written responses to questions on pg. 3-4 = handwritten neatly on notebook paper in pencil and labeled by question number TEACHER NOTES/COMMENTS: _____ / 150 total points Student’s Signature: ___________________________________________________________________ Parent’s Signature: ____________________________________________________________________ 2 4th Grade Summer Reading Rubric 2020 Chapters Assignment Points Readers often meet the main characters in the early chapters of a novel. Begin filling in the character chart as you read these first chapters, focusing _____ / 24 Chapters 1 and 2: on the following characters: Charlie, Grandpa Joe, and Mr. Willy Wonka. Here Comes Use adjectives from the story to describe the characters. Charlie; Mr. Willy The setting includes the place, time, and weather of a story. Wonka’s Factory 1. What settings have been introduced so far. _____ / 4 2. How is Charlie’s home different from the Wonka chocolate factory? As stories progress, readers encounter additional characters and learn more Chapters 3 and 4: about characters already introduced. Mr. Wonka and the _____ / 24 Indian Prince; The Continue filling in your character chapter for major characters, especially Secret Workers what you are learning about Grandpa Joe, Charlie, and Mr. Willy Wonka. Use adjectives from the story to describe the characters. In these chapters, we meet two more characters and their families, Augustus Gloop and Veruca Salt. Chapters 5 and 6: The Golden 3. Because of what they have learned from their parents, both children _____ / 4 Tickets; The First are spoiled, selfish, and do not practice the habit of temperance. Two Finders What examples do we see from their stories that prove this to be true? Include a quote with page number from this chapter for support. In these chapters, we meet two more characters, Violet Beauregarde and Mike Teavee. _____ / 4 Chapters 7 and 8: 4. How are Violet and Mike similar to Augustus and Veruca? Charlie’s Birthday; 5. How are all four children different from Charlie Bucket? Two More Golden Tickets Found Begin filling in the character chart for the characters: Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee. Use adjectives from the _____ / 32 story to describe the characters. Chapters 9 and 10: Grandpa Joe Takes Although Charlie is suffering from starvation, he never complains because he does not want to be a burden to his family. a Gamble; _____ / 2 6. How does this show that Charlie is a selfless character? The Family Begins to Starve Chapters 11 and 12: One of the main themes of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is justice, The Miracle; What you get what you deserve. _____ / 2 It Said on the 7. How is this theme displayed when Charlie found the last golden Golden Ticket ticket? 8. Why does it make sense that Grandpa Joe is the one to accompany _____ / 2 Charlie to the chocolate factory? Chapters 13 and 14: The Big Day We learn a lot about Mr. Willy Wonka in these chapters. Add information in Arrives; the character chart about him. Use adjectives from the story to describe the Mr. Willy Wonka characters. _____ / 8 3 Chapters Assignment Points We are introduced to a new setting in these chapters, the inside of the factory. 9. In a one sentence answer, describe the Chocolate Room in the _____ / 4 Chapters 15 and 16: factory. Don’t forget to use adjectives from the story! The Chocolate 10. Was the inside of the factory what you expected it to be. Why or Room; The why not? Oompa-Loompas We are introduced to the Oompa-Loompas in chapter 16. Fill in the character chart with information about them. Use adjectives from the story _____ / 8 to describe the characters. Chapters 17 and 18: Greed is having an intense and selfish desire for something, especially Augustus Gloop wealth, power, and food. Goes up the Pipe; 11. How does Augustus show that he is greedy? _____ / 4 Down the 12. How does his type of greed lead to him getting in trouble in the Chocolate River factory? Chapters 19 and 20: The Inventing Room-Everlasting 13. Which invention of Mr. Willy Wonka’s seems the most exciting or Gobstoppers and interesting to you (the everlasting gobstopper, the hair toffee, or the _____ / 2 Hair Toffee; The great gum machine)? Why? Great Gum Machine Chapters 21 and 22: By ignoring Mr. Wonka and her parents, Violet does not practice the habit Good-by Violet; of obedience well. _____ / 2 Along the Corridor 14. How does her disobedience get her into trouble? Chapters 23 and 24: Square Candies Veruca is spoiled and impatient, and her parents helped her become this way. This ultimately gets all three of them into trouble in the nut room. That Look Round; _____ / 2 15. What is the author trying to teach us about being spoiled and Veruca in the Nut impatient? Room Chapters 25 and 26: The Great Glass 16. If you stepped inside of the great glass elevator, would your reaction be more like Charlie’s or more like Mike’s? Why? Elevator; The _____ / 4 17. Predict what you think will happen to Mike Teavee in the Television- Television-Chocolate Room. Chocolate Room Chapters 27 and 28: After Mike is shrunk by the television, the Oompa-Loompas sing a song Mike Teavee is about how television watching can be bad and reading is always good. _____ / 2 Sent by Television; 18. Why do you think the author felt it was important to make this Only Charlie Left point to his readers? In the end, Charlie is given a gift for him and his family that is far greater Chapters 29 and 30: than he could have imagined. The Other Children 19. Based on what you’ve learned about Charlie and Mr. Wonka _____ / 8 Go Home; Charlie’s throughout the book, why do you think Charlie was the only child Chocolate Factory of the five who visited the factory to be given the entire chocolate factory? A theme is a lesson or main idea in a story or book. Whole-Book 20. Why do you think the author wrote this story? What lesson was he _____ / 8 Reflection trying to teach his readers? 4 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Character Chart DIRECTIONS: Print out this character chart to fill in as you read the specified chapters. Use adjectives and specific words from the story, and put page numbers for where you found the words when you are able. Answers do not have to be in complete sentences. Each box should contain a minimum of 3 words. (Examples: Physical -“curly haired” pg. 13 or “poor” pg.