American Heritage Lower School Summer Reading Requirements Entering Sixth Grade 2013

American Heritage strongly emphasizes reading. Therefore, we encourage our students to continue reading during the summer months. Each grade level reading committee has carefully chosen these books.

We hope you enjoy shopping with your child, allowing them to select their favorite books from this extensive list. Please note that any of the books listed could go out of print without notice. If this should occur, please make another selection from the list provided.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Lower School Media Center at (954)472-0022 ext. 3089, Fax: (954)472-0573, Email: patricia.deben@ahschool.com

Sixth Grade Requirements: Students are required to read both Hatchet and Hoot. They must follow the reading book report form provided on Edline for Hatchet. The book report will be collected on the first day of school. However, it will not count as a literature grade. Instead, the teacher will add 10 points to the grade you earned on the Hoot test. Any book report form that is partially completed or plagiarized will receive zero (0) points.

Please bring a typed copy of your book report form to your Language Arts class on the first day of school. Save an electronic copy to be turned in on turnit.com. During the first week of school, all students will be given a reading comprehension test on Hoot. If you are in Honors Literature, you will take a comprehension test on both Hatchet and Hoot.

Grade Six

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

American  Heritage  Summer  Reading  Assignment    Incoming  6th  Grade  

Name: ___________________________________

Title: ____________________________________

Author: __________________________________

1. Genre:

Realistic Fiction Mystery Historical

Fantasy Non-fiction Biography

Science Fiction Adventure

2. Characters: List three major characters in order of their importance to the plot and write a description about each of them in at least three sentences.

3. Tell how a character has changed over the course of the novel:

4. Setting (Time and Place):

5. Conflict (Describe the main character's problem):

6. Resolution (Describe how the problem was solved):

7. Plot (List the main events from the story in sequential order):

8. Theme (What lesson(s) has the character learned over the course �of the novel?):

9. Review : I do/do not recommend this book because... (Support with details from the text):