Summer Reading Outline for Seventh and Eighth Grade Biography
2013-2014
For the 2013-2014 school year, incoming Seventh and Eighth grade students will need
to select a biography as their book of choice. This biography must be chosen from the
list below created for their particular grade. The 7th grade will pick from a list of
famous men while the 8th grade will pick from a list of famous women.
On the first day of school, August 21st, students will need to bring the following:
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The chosen biography book which has already been read entirely.
An internet article that is brought to school on the first day and is about that
particular person.
Make sure that the date of birth and death as well as biographical information is
highlighted in the article and that you have thoroughly read the article.
This information will be used to build the biography research paper during the first
quarter of the school year.
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8 Grade Women’s Biography List
7 Grade Men’s Biography List
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1. George Washington Carver
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
3. Mark Twain
4. Galileo Galilei
5. Leonardo Divinci
6. Jonathan Edwards
7. Lou Gehrig
8. Theodore Roosevelt
9. John Bunyan
10. C.S. Lewis
11. Ghandi
12. Pablo Picasso
13. Payne Stuart
14. Walter Peyton
15. Tom Landry
16. Billy Graham
17. John Wooden
18. Ronald Reagan
19. General Robert E. Lee
20. Ulysses S. Grant
21. General George S. Patton
22. Chester Nimitz
23. General Douglas McArthur
24. Ludwig Von Beethoven
25. Jimmy Stewart
26. James Langston Hughes
27. Watchman Nee
28. Dr. Feng Shan Ho
29. Geronimo
30. Cesar Chavez
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Joan of Arc
Abigail Adams – wife of John Adams,
mother of John Quincy Adams
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Fanny Crosby – hymn writer and poet
Princess Diana
Clara Barton
Lucille Ball
Julia Child
Wilma Rudolph
Annie Oakley
Eleanor Roosevelt
Grace Kelly
Mother Theresa
Sojourner Truth
Anne Sullivan
Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zacharias
Lena Horne
Anne Frank
Karen Carpenter
Harriet Tubman
Audrey Hepburn
Cleopatra
Jane Austen
Elizabeth I
Ruth Bell Graham
Eva Peron
Selena
Katherine Sue Fun Cheung
Oichi
Hiawatha