Summer Reading Models Gr. 6,7,8
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Double Entry Journal Model
Using STARGIRL by Jerry Spinelli
Purpose for double entry journal: This is your opportunity to pause and reflect on your reading which will help you better understand the text.
Please read two books from the summer reading list.
Do at least five (5) double entry journal entries for each book. These entries should be well spaced throughout the book—beginning, middle, end.
Please type or neatly write the entries in dark blue or black ink on 8 ½ x 11 paper and staple it all together.
Each entry should include the following:
Quotation: My thoughts about the quotation:
Choose and copy a passage from the book and write its number page after it.
A “passage” is a piece of text, anywhere from one good sentence to a paragraph to half of page in length
Example:
Chapter 1, Page 3
“Did you see her?” That was the first thing Kevin said to me on the first day of school, eleventh grade. We were waiting for the bell to ring.” Explain your passage. You may wish to address some or all of the following in your responses:
1. Briefly explain WHY you chose the passage. Some possible reasons:
• It makes you laugh
• It touches an emotion in you
(makes you sad, nervous, happy, angry, relieved, etc.)
• It is suspenseful or it makes you wonder what will happen next
• You think it is a good description/ makes you feel as if you’re there
1. Another character or event in the same book.
2. Your own life or the life of a family member or friend
3. Another book you’ve read
4. Lyrics to a song or words to a poem you know
5. A movie you’ve seen or a character in a movie
6. Something you believe to be true/ a truth about life
7. A wish or dream you have for yourself
Example:
I can remember my first day of school. I was 5 years old and walked to school to begin Kindergarten with my cousin, mom, and aunt. The schoolyard seemed so big and we were waiting for the bell to ring. I remember being afraid and holding my mom’s hand. When the bell rang, she walked me to the line up for the kindergarten kids.
REMINDER: This is ONE entry. You need to do TEN like this —five from each book.
SUMMER READING- Grade 7 and 8
Double Entry Journal Model
Using The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton
Purpose for double entry journal: This is your opportunity to pause and reflect on your reading which will help you better understand the text.
Please read two books from the summer reading list.
Do at least five (5) double entry journal entries for each book. These entries should be well spaced throughout the book—beginning, middle, end.
Please type or neatly write the entries in dark blue or black ink on 8 ½ x 11 paper and staple it all together.
Each entry should include the following:
Quotation: My thoughts about the quotation:
Choose and copy a passage from the book and write its number page after it.
A “passage” is a piece of text, anywhere from one good sentence to a paragraph to half of page in length Explain your passage. You may wish to address some or all of the following in your responses:
1. Briefly explain WHY you chose the passage. Some possible reasons:
• It makes you laugh
• It touches an emotion in you
(makes you sad, nervous, happy, angry, relieved, etc.)
• It is suspenseful or it makes you wonder what will happen next
• You think it is a good description/ makes you feel as if you’re there
• Other…?
2. Explain WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO THE STORY OR CHARACTERS
3. CONTEXT: Explain what’s going on in the book at the time of the passage.
4. CONNECTION: Explain a connection between the passage and something else.
Some possible connections you could make:
• Another character or event in the same book
• Your own life or the life of a family member or friend
• Another book you’ve read
• Lyrics to a song or words to a poem you know
• A movie you’ve seen or a character in a movie
• Something you believe to be true/ a truth about life
• A wish or dream you have for yourself
• Other connections…?
Passage: Response
In the country … I loved the country. I wanted to be out of towns and away from excitement. I only wanted to lie on my back under a tree and read a book or draw a picture, not worry about being jumped or carrying a blade… The country would be like that, I thought dreamily.
(Ch.3, page 44)
I chose this passage because it touches an emotion in me. It makes me feel the frustration that Ponyboy feels. I feel sad for him that he has such a hard life in the city and I wish that he could relax and have the easier life he wants to have.
The passage is important to the book because it shoes us how desperate the boys feel sometimes. It sets up (foreshadows) what’s going to happen in Chapter 4 when the two of them actually do go to the country to escape after something terrible happens.
This passage comes after the boys have had an encounter with the Soc girls at the drive-in. Ponyboy and Johnny are sick of all the problems they have to face as Greasers. They’re tired of having to watch their backs all the time. Johnny doesn’t even get any relief at home because his dad beats him and his mom is too selfish to notice or care. Ponyboy sees the country as the only place they can escape all their problems.
I connected this passage to a truth about life. I think it shoes how we, as humans, “romanticize” other places when we are in trouble or upset. We think that things would be better somewhere else. We think that our problem would go away if we could live in another place. This is usually just a dream, though, because we do not solve problems by running away or escaping to other places. We only really solve problems by facing them and working on them ourselves.
REMINDER: This is ONE entry. You need to do TEN like this —five from each book
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