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Students are required to read 3 books:

    By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman
    One book from the recommended reading list
 
Please use this reading log to keep track of books read.



2) By the Great Horn Spoon, Sid Fleischman

Use “Planning Sheet T-chart” to identify similarities and differences between
yourself and the book. These can include character traits, setting, problems, relationships,
or any other aspects from the story. After completing the T-chart, choose one
character from the book and write a friendly letter to him/her comparing and contrasting the  character’s life with your own.

 Planning Sheet T-Chart
2nd5thq.pdf (125)

3) Students’ Book of Choice: Choose 1 of the following 2 assignments

1. After reading, students write an epilogue predicting what will happen to the characters in
the story 5-10 years later.
Guiding questions to consider include:
- How will the characters change?
- What new adventures will they have?
- What will they be doing?
Your epilogue must make sense and relate back to the events which took place in the
story.

2. After reading, re-write the ending of the story, providing a new or different
resolution to the book’s original problem.
Recommended Reading List

11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
Al Capone Does My Shirts
by Gennifer Choldenko
The Big Field by Mike Lupica
Boys Are Dogs by Leslie Margolis
Candymakers
by Wendy Mass
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Dancing Pancake by Eileen Spinelli
A Dog’s Life by Ann M. Martin
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
by Jacqueline Kelly
Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
Faith, Hope and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Hero by Mike Lupica
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Ida B. by Katherine Hannigan
Knots in My Yo-Yo String
by Jerry Spinelli
The Lemonade War by Jaqueline Davies
Loser
by Spinelli
The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas
Magyk by Angie Sage
Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
My Side of the Mountain by Jean George Craighead
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Powerless by Matthew Cody
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by Eric Berlin
Scumble
by Ingrid Law
Seer of Shadows by Avi
Smells Like Dog by Suzanne Selfors
Spaceheadz
by Jon Scieszka
Strange Case of the Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
Surving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konisburg
When You Reach Me  by Rebecca Stead
Zoobreak by Gordan Korman

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