St. Paul’s Catholic School 5th Grade Summer Reading List Choose any combination of assignments that adds up to 30 points. The length of each writing piece listed is the minimum requirement. 10 points each Write a poem about your book. (16 lines) Draw and color a map of the setting. Locate the important landmarks of the novel. Write an obituary for a character. (100 words) Make a crossword puzzle about the book. Include at least 15 clues and an answer key. 15 points each Discuss the similarities and differences between the protagonist (main character/hero) and yourself. (200 words) Write a prequel to the novel. (300 words) Write a five paragraph essay persuading your friend to read the book. Write a different ending for the novel. (300 words) Write and design a newspaper article about an event in the story. (300 words) Discuss whether or not the antagonist is effectively punished. (200 words) 20 points each Find two songs that relate to your book. Write out the lyrics to both songs. Include a 100 word explanation of the relationship between each song and the novel. Write a song for the novel. Record yourself performing it. Turn in the recording and the lyrics. Create a 3-D piece of art that symbolizes an aspect of the book. Make a scrapbook for one of the characters. Include at least seven items and a paragraph for each item explaining its significance. Recreate the main event of the story in play like format. Turn in a video of yourself performing the play (costumes and props required) Remember: The projects you turn in must add up to 30 points! You must do one project for each of your “selection” books. Do not complete a Summer Reading Project on the required text, Hatchet. After turning in your Summer Reading Projects; you MUST take the corresponding Accelerated Reader within the first two weeks of school. The points you earn from the Summer Reading Projects and the Accelerated Reader Quizzes will be your FIRST READING GRADES for the year. Each student entering 5th grade MUST read… After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Hatchet Paulsen, Gary Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Additionally, please choose TWO of the following books for your Summer Book Assignments… Left alone on a beautiful but isolated Island of the Blue Dolphins O'Dell, Scott island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch. Lewis, C.S. Tuck Everlasting Babbitt, Natalie From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Konigsburg, E.L. A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle, Madeleine The Cricket in Times Square Seldon, George Winnie Foster discovers a magic spring that has given the Tuck family eternal life. She is faced with the difficult decision of whether to drink from it and whether to tell all when a stranger wants to know the secret in order to sell the water. Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and take up residence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Meg Murry and her family receive a surprise visit from an unearthly stranger out of another dimension in time. Chester the cricket resides in a newsstand in Times Square. He has many adventures, climaxing with the rescue of the newsstand owner from financial disaster.