St. Bonaventure Catholic School Junior High

Grade 7 Choices: The Great Gilly Hopkins by: Katherine Paterson,

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by: C.S. Lewis, Maniac Magee by: Jerry Spinelli, Coraline by: Neil Gaiman, Tuck Everlasting by Na-talie Babbitt, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by Betha-ny Hamilton, Rick Bundschuh, and Sheryl Berk.

Grade 8 Choices: Left to Tell by: Immaculee Illibagiza; Anne Frank:

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen , Max the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan, Brainwashed (Crime Travelers #1) by Paul Aertker, Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt, Ripper by Stefan Petrucha.

Objectives: Students will develop an appreciation for literature and leisure reading.

Students will analyze character, setting, and plot of the books while applying their Catholic Identity within the themes of the story. (Active Christ-Centered Catholic who can demonstrate on-going individual Catholic faith formation through knowledge of scripture, Church beliefs, history, and tradition. Life-long Learner who can read and think critically to make informed real world decisions. Effective Communicator who uses tech nology as a tool to gather information, solve problems, and communicate ideas.)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.10 Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

Students will incorporate the use of technology to present what they have learned.

Directions:

You will be giving a comprehension presentation via Google Presentation. The presentation format will be shared with you that contains all the slides that you will have to fill out to show your analysis of the book you’ve read. It’s a comprehension presentation because you will demonstrate through this presen-tation what you’ve learned from the book you’ve read.

First of all, choose the book you would like to read. Find a great place to read. Go to the beach or lay in the hammock in your backyard if you have one. Read a little each day and enjoy the book. When you are done reading, do the following:

1. Create a slide presentation of what you read. You must use all of the information in the slides, but you may change the look or design of the slides.

2. Add pictures, but you must give credit of the pictures that used. In other words, in the last slide, type in the website of where you obtained the pictures. Reminder: google.com and yahoo.com are not websites. These are search engines. You must find where the picture was obtained.

3. The PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS are on the following page for each grade. Please follow them accordingly.

Due Date: Due the day after Labor Day

*** You may submit it to Mrs. Ciccoianni or Ms. Garner any time during the summer. If you have any questions, email either one of us at aciccoianni@stbonaventureschool.org or kgar-ner@stbonaventureschool.org. We will answer questions unless we are out of town on vacation.

The following are the PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS for 6th and 7th grade going into the 7th and 8th grade. Please use pictures throughout your presentation. When you are done, share your presentation document with Ms. Garner or Mrs. Ciccoianni.

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS for 6th Grade entering 7th Grade.

1. SLIDE 1: This should contain the TITLE OF THE BOOK and AUTHOR, your NAME and GRADE 7 or 8.

2. SLIDE 2: CHARACTERS: Label the main character (PROTAGONIST) and any character(s) that are in conflict with him/her(ANTAGONIST). How do you know the character fits that label?

3. SLIDE 3: SETTING: WHERE and WHEN does the story take place? Be specific and include ALL PLACES and TIME PERIODS. Also in-clude DESCRIPTIONS that lead to setting, i.e. weather, clothing, accents, etc…

4. SLIDE 4: POINT OF VIEW: Who is telling the story? How do you know? Is it a character in the story or an outside narrator?

5. SLIDE 5: PLOT: How would you describe the plot of the novel? What parts of the novel would fall under the beginning? middle? and end? (you may add an extra slide if needed)

6. SLIDE 6: CONFLICT: Describe the different forms of CONFLICT in the story. Was it internal (man vs. himself)? External (man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature)? EXPLAIN and give me REASONS FROM THE BOOK to SUPPORT your answer. You may use an extra slide if needed. Just add one.

7. SLIDE 7: THEME: What lesson or central insight did you learn from this story? Explain. Use EVENTS FROM THE STORY to SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER. What Catholic Christian lesson did you learn? Pick a lesson from any of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John to relate to this novel, and explain why. If you read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, which is a Christian allegory, you should have a lot of information to compare.

8. SLIDE 8: CREDITS: Where did you get your pictures from? Type in the website to give the credit.

If you need help in understanding any of these literary terms, please visit

http://www.scholastic.com/scopemagazine/PDFs/SCOPE-Library-LiteraryTerms.pdf OR http://www.shmoop.com/literature-glossary/ to help you.

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENT FOR 7th Grade entering 8th Grade

1. SLIDE 1: This should contain the TITLE OF THE BOOK and AUTHOR, your NAME and GRADE 7 or 8.

2. SLIDE 2: CHARACTERS: Label the protagonist and antagonist(s). How do you know the character fits that label?

3. SLIDE 3: CHARACTERIZATION: Pick 4 characters that fit the labels of ROUND, FLAT, DYNAMIC, and STATIC. Explain why using evi-dence from the novel.

4. SLIDE 4: SETTING: WHERE and WHEN does the story take place? Be specific and include ALL PLACES and TIME PERIODS. Also in-clude DESCRIPTIONS that lead to setting, i.e. weather, clothing, accents, etc…

5. SLIDE 5: POINT OF VIEW: What point of view is this written in? FIRST PERSON, THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT, or THIRD PERSON LIMITED? How do you know? How does the fiction or non fiction aspect of the book affect it?

6. SLIDE 6: PLOT: How would you describe the plot of the novel? What parts of the novel would fall under EXPOSITION, RISING AC-TION, CLIMAX, FALLING ACTION, and RESOLUTION? (USE THE NEXT SLIDE TOO)

7. SLIDE 7: PLOT Continued…

8. SLIDE 8: CONFLICT: Describe the different forms of CONFLICT in the story. Was it internal (man vs. himself)? External (man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature)? EXPLAIN and give me REASONS FROM THE BOOK to SUPPORT your answer. You may use an extra slide if needed. Just add one.

9. SLIDE 9: THEME: What lesson or central insight did you learn from this story? Explain. Use EVENTS FROM THE STORY to SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER. Apply 1-2 of the 7 Catholic Social Teachings to the book you read. EXPLAIN. Use http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/seven-themes-of-catholic-social-teaching.cfm

10. SLIDE 10: CREDITS: Where did you get your pictures from? Type in the website to give the credit.

The student COMPLETED the project and SUBMITTED it before or on the day after Labor Day . 10 points.

Each slide for the literary elements was COMPLETED and USED EXAMPLES FROM THE NOVEL to support the analysis.

Character Slide 15 points

Setting Slide 10 points

Point of View Slide 10 points

Plot Slide(s) 15 points

Theme slide 20 points (CATHOLIC IDENTITY COMPONENT: students were able to relate the theme or lesson of what

they read to ONE of the GOSPELS of MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, or JOHN)

A TITLE SLIDE was completed and PICTURES were used throughout the presentation. CREDIT OF WHERE THE PICTURES

CAME FROM WAS CITED. 20 points

TOTAL OF 100 POINTS!

The student COMPLETED the project and SUBMITTED it before or on the day after Labor Day . 10 points.

Each slide for the literary elements was COMPLETED and USED EXAMPLES FROM THE NOVEL to support the analysis.

Character Slide 10 points

Characterization 10 points

Setting Slide 10 points

Point of View Slide 10 points

Plot Slide(s) 15 points

Theme slide 20 points (CATHOLIC IDENTITY COMPONENT: students were able to relate the theme or lesson of what

they read to ONE or more of the seven CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHINGS of the Church)

A TITLE SLIDE was completed and PICTURES were used throughout the presentation. CREDIT OF WHERE THE PICTURES

CAME FROM WAS CITED. 15 points

TOTAL OF 100 POINTS!

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They say Aslan is on the move. Perhaps he has already landed,' whispered the Beaver. Edmund felt a sensation of mys-terious horror. Peter felt brave and ad-venturous. Susan felt as if some de-lightful strain of music had just floated by. And Lucy got that feeling when you realize it's the beginning of summer. So, deep in the bewitched land of Narnia, the adventure begins.

Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a nor-mal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and un-cle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.

Coraline's often wondered what's behind the locked door in the drawing room. It reveals only a brick wall when she final-ly opens it, but when she tries again later, a passageway mysteriously appears. Coraline is surprised to find a flat dec-orated exactly like her own, but strangely different. And when she finds her "other" parents in this alternate world, they are much more interesting despite their creepy black button eyes. When they make it clear, however, that they want to make her theirs forever, Coraline begins a nightmar-ish game to rescue her real parents and three children im-prisoned in a mirror.

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as incon-spicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and ex-plain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune.

A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the read-ing of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger - and a possible murderer - to inherit his vast fortune, one thing's for sure: Sam Westing may be dead... but that won't stop him from playing one last game!

They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that drives her to surf? How else could one explain that nothing—not even the loss of her arm—could come between her and the waves? That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii, Bethany responded to the shark’s stealth attack with the calm of a girl with God on her side. Pushing pain and panic aside, she began to paddle with one arm, focus-ing on a single thought: “Get to the beach....” And when the first thing Bethany want-ed to know after surgery was “When can I surf again?” it became clear that her spirit and determination were part of a greater story—a tale of courage and faith that this soft-spoken girl would come to share with the world.

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwan-dans.

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You thought you knew him. You were dead wrong. Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels to encourage him. But when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver is given not only the chance to find his biological father, he finds himself smack in the middle of a real life investigation: tracking down a vicious serial killer who has thrown New York City into utter panic. When the case begins to unfold, however, it’s worse than he could have ever imagined, and his loyalty to Mr. Hawking and the Pinkertons comes into question. As the body count ris-es and the investigation becomes dire, Carver must decide where his true loyalty lies.