McClintock Middle School

Summer Reading Activity

2013-2014

Below is the information you need to complete McClintock Middle School’s Summer Reading Activity. Please select a book from your grade level list.

Each of the books on your summer reading list has a common theme of bullying. Bullying is defined as “Intentional, repeated, hurtful acts, words, or other behaviors committed by one or more persons against another in a hurtful or harmful way.” Bullying may take one or more of the following forms in your book:

  • Physical – hitting, pushing, kicking other students; taking or damaging someone else’s property; assault
  • Reactive – a student who has been repeatedly bullied becomes a bully himself hoping to hurt others in the way he has been hurt
  • Verbal – using words to humiliate and harass another student
  • Relational – trying to convince peers to reject or exclude another student; cutting a student off from social functions and friends

Directions:

1. Answering the following questions to help you reflect on your book.

2. Please make sure to find at least one sentence from the novel to support your answers, which should all be at least five sentences.

This reading guide will be the first assignment of the new school year. We hope this activity is one that will stimulate you intellectually and satisfy you emotionally. Have a wonderful summer and happy reading!

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Reading Guide

Student Name: ______

Title: ______

Author: ______

Describe the main character’s external (physical) traits, as well as, his or her internal traits (on the inside – for example: kind, generous, jealous). Give at least one example of each.

Is your main character the bully or the victim? What form does the bullying take? (Refer to the definitions on the previous page.)

By the end of the story, has the bully changed? Explain your answer. Has the victim changed? Explain your answer.

Add yourself as new character in the story. Describe the role that you would take. For example: What would you say to the bully? How would you help the victim?

What did you enjoy best about your book? What will you remember about it and why?

Draw a picture in the space below that represents a scene from your book.

McClintock Middle School

Summer Reading Activity

Book List

Grade 6 (incoming)

AuthorTitle

BloorTangerine

HahnStepping on the Cracks

McKayIndigo’s Star

NixonCaught in the Act

SpinelliCrash

SpinelliStargirl

WilhelmThe Revealers

Grade 7

BrugmanWalking Naked

EstesThe Hundred Dresses

KormanSchooled

KossThe Girls

PatersonThe Great Gilly Hopkins

PhilbrickFreak the Mighty

Grade 8

AndersonSpeak

CormierThe Chocolate War

DickensOliver Twist

GardenEndgame

HoweThe Misfits

MyersShooter