RISING 8th GRADERS 2015 Summer Reading – J.T. Moore Middle Prep Please read at least 2 of the books from the list. Complete a Double Entry Journal while you read. Fiction The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Double Dutch by Sharon Draper Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson Threatened by Eliot Schrefer Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Non-Fiction Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom by Sue Macy I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai Graphic Novel The Dumbest Idea Ever by Jimmy Gownley Double Entry Journal Directions A Double Entry Journal is an organizer you can use to write down your thoughts while you read. On the left side, copy quotes or ideas from the text. On the right side, write your thoughts or questions that go with those quotes or ideas. Below is an example. Make a larger one for yourself on a blank sheet of paper. Book Title: The City of Ember Quote or Idea from the Text (with a page number): My Thoughts, Question, or Connection (in my own words): Examples: Examples: “Grown people did their work, and younger people, until they reached the age of twelve, went to school. On the last day of their final year, which was called Assignment Day, they were given jobs to do.” (p. 5) Text-Text Connection: This is exactly like The Giver. In that story, kids get their job assignments at age 12, too. “Someone tapped her on the shoulder. Startled, she turned and saw Doon behind her… ‘Will you trade with me?’ he asked.” (p. 15) I am so glad that Lina is going to trade jobs with Doon! I think this means that they might become friends as the story continues.