Summer Reading Rising Sixth Graders

St. Joseph School 

Language Arts/Literature. Ms. Logerfo

Grade 6 Summer Reading Assignment 2021

1.  Choose a book that interests you. Choices include fiction (F), historical fiction (HF), and non-fiction (NF).  These are listed by author’s last name.

Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War II (HF)  

Geer, Andrew.  Reckless, Pride of the Marines (NF)

Kamkwambe, William. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Young Readers Edition (NF)

L’Engle, Madeleine.  A Wrinkle in Time,  (F)

Lewis,  C.H.  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (F) 

Losure, Mary.  Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal’d. (NF)

O’Brien, Robert. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (F)

Palacio, R.J. Wonder (F)

Park, Linda Sue. A Long Walk to Water (HF)

Seredy, Kate. The White Stag  (F)

Spyri,  Johanna.  Heidi (full length)  (F)

Wilder,  Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie. (HF

2. Your assignment is to write entries in a journal.  Purchase a black and white composition book and write neatly as this will be your Literature notebook for September. Leave the first page blank. A heading is required for every subsequent page: your name, St. Joseph School, LA/L Summer Reading, title of your book, author, date of entry.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

3. Topic choices for your journal entries are endless.  You can write about the setting, the characters’ personalities, their struggles, their relationships.  You can write about figurative language and the author’s purpose. You can write about events that have happened in the book or are happening or might happen.  You can explain what you don’t understand as you try to make sense of what you are reading. 

You can warn characters not to trust other characters. You can compare people in the book to those in your life and events in the book to those in the world around you. You can tell the author what you think of the book and what you like or dislike about it.  You can write about what the book teaches you about the world you live in and about the way human beings are. 

4.  The one thing you cannot do is write someone else’s version.  If you were planning to look up the book on the internet and copy what someone else wrote - don’t do it! I will know! I can sniff out phony goods like a police dog.. 

5.  You should write a minimum of ten entries in your journal.  You can divide up the number of chapters and write an entry every few chapters. Entries should relate to all parts of the book - not just the beginning chapters.   Every entry should be a well-written paragraph.  Beneath your entry, list new vocabulary words, proper names of people and cities, and other details.  You do not need to write a definition or an explanation for every word and name, but for a few important ones on each page.  List these to remind you as you may want to remember a detail when you are talking about the book in class.

Summer Reading Assignment due September 7, 2021.

Grading rubric attached.

Summer Reading Rubric LA/L 2021

Criteria	5 points	4 points	3 points	2 point	1 point	Points earned
Quality	Entries are “rich” in details, examples, and quotations.  Your thoughts are easy to follow and deeper thinking is evident.	Most entries show detail, examples, or quotations.  Most entries are easy to follow and show deeper thinking	Entries do not use specific details, examples or quotations. Some entries show deeper thinking.	Entries are vague but related to text. Entries do not show evidence of reflection and do not make clear sense to the reader.	Entries are vague and not related to text.  Entries do not show evidence of reflection and do not make clear sense to the reader.	_________
Quantity	You have written more than ten entries	You have written nine entries	You have written eight entries	You have written five to seven entries	You have written fewer than five entries	_________
Neatness	Ten or more pages have  complete headings.   Writing is legible and neat and journal has appearance of the high value you place on reading, writing, and thinking.	Nine pages have complete headings.. Writing is legible and neat and your journal’s appearance suggests you value reading, writing, and thinking..	Eight entries have complete headings..  Writing is neat and legible.	Five to seven entries have complete headings. Journal lacks appearance of your placing a high value on reading, writing and thinking.	Fewer than five entries have complete headings. Journal lacks appearance of your placing a high value on reading, writing and thinking.	_________
Writing conventions - Sentence construction, Spelling, Punctuation, Capitalization	Entries are in logical order, written in  well- structured sentences with fewer than three errors in punctuation spelling, or capitalization.	Entries are in logical order, written in well- structured sentences with fewer than seven errors in punctuation spelling, or capitalization,	Some entries are in logical  order and written in complete sentences.   with ten or fewer errors in punctuation spelling, or capitalization.	Entries have more than ten errors in sentence construction, spelling, capitalization and punctuation.	Errors make it difficult to follow your writing.	_________
Vocabulary, proper names of people, cities other data.  Required: List &#defined.	30 or more vocabulary words/proper nouns/details are listed;  10 or more are defined	Total 15  vocabulary words/proper nouns/details are listed;   7 are defined	Total 10  vocabulary words/proper nouns/details are listed; 5 are defined	Total 5 vocabulary words/proper nouns/details are listed; 4 are defined.	Fewer than 5 vocabulary words/proper nouns/details in total; 3 or fewer are defined.	_________

Quality ______ + Quantity ______+Neatness ______ + Writing conventions _______ + Data_______ = _________

Total Possible Points_____________

Total Points Earned ______________ X 4 = ______________%

Grade 8

For the poem, "Incident in a Rose Garden", p. 892

• Name the title and the poet.   
• Identify the literary device in the poem 
  
• Define it.
• Show (Quote the words and phrases from the poem which are the literary device) and
• Explain in your own words its meaning.
• Use quotation marks as necessary (for the title, and for any words you directly quote.)
• Do this concisely, clearly, promptly, and quietly.

Based on whether the classwork is completed well and handed in at the end of the period, tonight's assignment may be waylaid.


  If the classwork is handed in today by 3p, the homework assignment will be withheld.

For 8-1, homework assignment for tonight has been withheld.

For 8-2, homework assignment for tonight has been withheld.

 May 17, 2021

Grade 8 Homework and Test Prep

1.  Read "The City is So Big" by Richard Garcia, page 399
Be able to identify the "mood" of the poem, and be able to quote three words the poet uses to express this mood.
Also, identify a literary device in the poem and be prepared to define the device and explain its use and meaning in the poem...
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Written homework:
2.  Read the excerpt from "The People, Yes" by Carl Sandburg, literature text page 343
Write on looseleaf, in cursive, in paragraph form, in complete sentences

• Identify the author and title of the poem (quotation marks around title); 
• Identify the literary device that is prevalent in the poem (hyperbole); 
• Define the literary device;
• Quote three examples of this device in the poem; 
• Explain these three examples of hyperbole in plain language; 
• Explain what is the theme that the poet is trying to express through the use of these hyperbole.

3.  Language Arts Literature Study Guide posted on Google Classroom

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Grade 6 Homework and Test Prep

1.Read the poem "I Am the Creativity", p. 699 in lit text.

In cursive, in paragraph form, in complete sentences 

• Identify the title and poet (Title has quotes around it - is not underlined like a book title)
  
• Tell the literary device that is present
  
• Define the literary device (metaphor)
  
• Tell what are the things that are different that the poet says are same in the poem.
  
• Why does the poet use metaphor to say what she want to say to the the world in this poem?  Why doesn't she just say what she means?  How does the use of metaphor help express her meaning better than if she didn't use it?  What is her meaning?

2.  Language Arts Literature Study Guide and Literature Practice on Google Classroom 

 May 12, 2021

Grade 6.  Writing effective sentences

Do work on looseleaf to hand in tomorrow. Homework heading includes name, grade, date, book name, page #, and topic name.

Warriner's p. 384

A. 1-5.  Identify as sentence, sentence fragment, or run-on.  If it is a fragment or a run-on, correct it.  If it is a correct sentence as is, you do not have to do anything.

B. 6-10  Each has two sentences.  Combine these into one sentence, using additional words or phrases as necessary, or a semi-colon to create a compound sentence.

Grade 8.  Subject-Verb and Pronoun Antecedent  Agreement 

Warriner's text p. 154.

Homework on looseleaf to hand in tomorrow.

Homework heading includes name, grade, date, book name, page #, and topic name

Do Exercise A, 1-10.
If the italicized verb in the sentence agrees with the subject and the sentence is already correct, Write "C."
If the italicized verb does not agree with the subject, write the correct form of the verb on the line.  
You need not copy the sentences.

(Tip. The subject of the sentence is NOT going to be found as the object of a prepositional phrase.)
(Tip.  Put interrogative sentences in decorative form to find the subject of the sentence.)


Do Exercise B, 11-20.
If the italicized pronoun agrees with its antecedent and the sentence is already correct, Write "C."
If the italicized pronoun does not agree with its antecedent, write the correct form of the pronoun.
You need not copy the sentences.


(Tip.  Many definite pronouns are always singular, among them: each, either, somebody)

Grade 7  Subject-Verb and Pronoun Antecedent  Agreement 

Warriner's p. 146,147

Homework on looseleaf to hand in tomorrow.

Homework heading includes name, grade, date, book name, page #, and topic name

A. 1-10

Choose the correct word or word group in parenthesis in each sentence.  

You do not need to write the entire sentence.  

(Tip:  The subject of the sentence is NOT going to be found as the object of a preposition in a prepositional phrase.)

B.  11-20

If there is an error in the sentence, write the incorrect verb or pronoun.  Then write the sentence correctly.

If the sentence is already correct, write, "C."

(Tip:  Remember many indefinite pronouns are always singular, among which are: each, and either.)

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 May 11, 2021

6/7/8 Vocabulary Workshop p. 122

Rewrite the adages in your own words in complete sentences.  

Remote students please do on google doc in GC.

 May 10, 2021

6/7/8

Vocabulary Workshop Review Units 7-9

Complete pp 118 - 121, 125

 May 2, 2021

Grade 8 

Brainstorm your own childhood for memorable events such as the childhood events of Scout and Jem -

• getting in trouble in school,
• telling scary stories
• trespassing on a neighbor's property

Remember moments from your own childhood that stand out; list.

Write a few notes on each - then choose three events you will write about  -

• LIKE the writing of the house/neighborhood/ person, you will write in PRESENT TENSE, as if it is happening now.
  
• Use active verbs
• UNLIKE the writing of the house/neighborhood/person  - YOU are in this storyl
• Use first person pronouns as necessary.  
  
• Use dialogue with proper conventions of quotation marks.
• Use at least one literary device - metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia
• Use sensory language - sight, sound, touch, taste, smell

Draft of one event due Wednesday, 5/5

Derivatives Numbers open book quiz due Tuesday 5/4

Spelling Unit 9 test Wednesday 5/5

Unit 9 Vocabulary test Thursday 5/6

Grade 6

• Writing scene and description due 5/5 
• Unit 9 Vocab test 5/4
• 6-2 Religion Chapter 11 test 5/6

Grade 7

• Write a definition of a literary device in which you use the literary device you are defining to define it!
• Unit 9 Vocab test 5/4