Summer Reading Assignment Reminder

For Incoming 7th Graders:

Aloha to our new Kawaikini middle schoolers. Come to the first day of class prepared to discuss and write about a book that you have read over the summer. 

Write on a piece of paper: 

the author
the title
the genre (the type of book)
the main characters
the setting (where an when does the book take place)
the plot (what happens)

For Returning Secondary Students (8-12th Graders):

Click on the link below to access the assignment form:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n8K4BhHkYADNsfPP6euGr-Aa9PZLkSD0x_z7S7qMDvo/edit?usp=sharing

Or if you'd rather write the information on your own paper, here's the assignment:

Summer Reading Assignment: 2013

Read two books over the summer. In the form below, identify the literary elements. If you're not sure what they mean, look them up.

Book Title:
Author:
Genre:
Setting:
Point of View: 1st person: --Omniscient --Limited --Unreliable 2nd person 3rd person
Protagonists:
Antagonists:
Central Conflict:

Plot Summary:
Theme (give evidence):
Find examples of Metaphor (You are a rock. My heart flies.)
Find examples of Simile (You are like a rock. My heart seems to be flying)
Hyperbole She was as tall as a tree. I was blinded by her beauty
Oxymoron The sweet pain The cruel kiss
Alliteration An army of angry alligators
List 10 new words and their defintions

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Summer 2013 Reading Assignment

Summer Reading Assignment: 2013 

 Read two books over the summer. In the form below, identify the literary elements. If you're not sure what they mean, look them up.

 

Book Title:
Author:
Genre:
Setting:
Point of View: 1st person: --Omniscient --Limited --Unreliable 2nd person 3rd person
Protagonists:
Antagonists:
Central Conflict:

Plot Summary:
Theme (give evidence):
Find examples of.....
Metaphor (You are a rock. My heart flies.)
Simile (You are like a rock. My heart seems to be flying)
Hyperbole She was as tall as a tree. I was blinded by her beauty
Oxymoron The sweet pain The cruel kiss
Alliteration An army of angry alligators
List 10 new words you learned.

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The Chambered Nautilus
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR.
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
   Sails the unshadowed main,—
   The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
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Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.

Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
   Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
   And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
   Before thee lies revealed,—
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!

Year after year beheld the silent toil
   That spread his lustrous coil;
   Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
   Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.

Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
   Child of the wandering sea,
   Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!
   While on mine ear it rings,
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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
   As the swift seasons roll!
   Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
   Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea! 

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