1. Show book trailer: To Kill a Mockingbird book trailer.
Category Archives: Summer Reading
8th Grade Summer Reading
1. Hero’s Journey
a) Overview to introduce the hero’s journey.
b) TED-Ed four minute video that succinctly introduces the patterns in literature and in our lives relative to the hero’s journey (Joseph Campbell)
2. Archetypes Overview
3. J. R. R. Tolkien
a) Biography and Facts
b) BrainPOP video
4. The Hobbit
a) Movie trailer for The Hobbit.
b) Blog posts:
Lone Star List Summer Reading Survey 2013
In an attempt to gather information about what students plan to read off of the Lone Star List, we have created a survey. Current Grade 6 GT ILA students please take the following survey. Please make certain that you have reviewed the list and the trailers posted previously.
Summer Reading Links 2013
Book trailer for all of the Lone Star 2013 titles: http://www.youtube.com/user/TXLALoneStarBooks
OverDrive: Many of the reading selections can be checked out as e-books through FISD’s OverDrive site!
Visit: http://friscoisd.lib.overdrive.com
Click on the “Explore” pull-down, and review available titles under “PreAP/AP Summer Reading List Titles”and “Classic eBooks.”
Summer Reading Lists
Please find the 2013 Summer Reading novels for middle and high school students. Sheet 1 lists the high school books. Sheet 2 lists the middle school books.
Summer Reading List HS and MS 2013 (PDF)
2013 Lone Star List Annotated (PDF)
Website: http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star
Summer Reading: Anne Frank
Created by: Lynnette Johnson Views: 1479 Steps: 8 Learners: 4 Updated: March 21
Description: Use this playlist to see a timeline of events affecting the Frank family, explore a 3D Secret Annex, find out more about the people who hid there, learn what happened to the occupants after their arrest, watch Otto Frank talk about the publishing of his daughter Anne’s diary, and discover what happened to your “Forget Me Not” child.
http://www.mentormob.com/learn/playlists/the-diary-of-anne-frank
2012-2013 GT ILA Novel List
6th Grade
The View from Saturday by E.L. Koinsberg
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
Crispin: Cross of Lead by Avi
7th Grade
Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton or Tangerine by Edward Bloor
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
8th Grade
Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Peace Like a River by Lief Enger
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare