7th Grade Summer Reading

Julia Landon College Preparatory and Leadership Development School

 

 

          Beverly Naidoo

 

Summary:


Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.

 

 

             Patrick Smith

 

 

Summary of Forever Island:

 

 

Forever Island tells the story of Charlie Jumper, and old Seminole Indian who clings to the ancient ways and teaches them to his grandson.  When their simple swamp existence is threatened by a development corporation, Charlie decides to fight back to protect the Everglades.

 

 

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Summer Reading Assignment

 

Julia Landon College Preparatory and Leadership Development School

 

 

 

Students should be prepared with their summer reading assignments by the end of the second full week of school.

 

Summer Reading List

 

7th Grade Titles

 

The Other Side of Truth

by

Beverly Naidoo

 

Forever Island

by

Patrick Smith

 

 

 

Directions:

 

1.  Read both required books.

 

2.  In order to be prepared for your work in class with these books, take notes as

     you read each chapter or section.  Do this by using the Summer Reading

     Documentation Chart to take notes as you read.  For each chapter or section, give one

     or more examples of how the main character’s actions help or hinder his or her

     leadership ability.  For each example, give the page number and paragraph where it is

     found.   This will be important when you do your writing and as you participate in the

     seminar.

 

3.  For each main character, make a list of five adjectives that describe the character’s

     Leadership ability.

 

4.  Choose the one main character that you believe is the best example of a leader and

     write a paragraph of 100-150 words explaining your choice.  Include at least two

     specific examples from the text which support your choice and explain them in detail.

     Use the charts to help locate the examples.  Incorporate at least three adjectives

      from the list in your writing.  Students should take care to do their best work without

     assistance.  Teachers will use the student writing to evaluate instructional needs.

 

 

You will also use your chapter notes, adjective lists, and paragraphs as you participate in a seminar discussion led by your teacher.

 

Summer Reading Documentation Chart

 

Julia Landon College Preparatory and Leadership Development School

 

 

Student:  ________________________  Book Title:  _____________________________

 

 

Main Character:  ____________________________________________

 

Directions:

 

As you read, take notes on what the main character does as he or she moves through the story.  Make notes about the main character’s important actions on the chart.  Give the chapter number or name, page number and paragraph number (1st complete paragraph from the top, 2nd complete paragraph from the top, etc.) where the action can be found in the book.  When documenting the character’s  important actions, be sure to explain if you think the action was helpful or hurtful to the character’s leadership ability.  You may duplicate the chart as many times as necessary.  If you are doing your work electronically, the chart will automatically expand as needed.  More than one chapter may be documented on the same chart.  You will need your charts for a seminar discussion once school has started.

 

Chapter

Page

Paragraph

Action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meet the Authors

 

Beverley Naidoo

Beverley Naidoo grew up in South Africa under apartheid. She says: "I was brought up with the usual conceptions most white South Africans have, completely taking for granted the services of our cook-cum-nanny, whose own three children lived over three hundred kilometers away. I still feel intensely angry about the racist distortions of reality -- passed on to me as a child. . . . I believe we owe it to young people here to help them understand what that struggle against an evil system is about. How can we hope for peace if we deny our children access to that knowledge?"

Beverley Naidoo was detained without trial when she was twenty-one and left South Africa the following year for Britain, where she has since lived.

 

 

Patrick Smith is a 1999 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the highest and most prestigious cultural honor that can be bestowed upon an individual by the State of Florida.
In May 2002 Smith was the recipient of the Florida Historical Society’s Fay Schweim Award as the “Greatest Living Floridian.” The one-time-only award was established to honor the one individual who has contributed the most to Florida in recent history. Smith was cited for the impact his novels have made on Floridians, both natives and newcomers to the state, and for the worldwide acclaim he has received.