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Helen Fort Summer Reading Response Prompts
Summer Reading Responses - Due September 15, 2023
The assignment for students entering 7th or 8th grade is posted as a Google Form in the HFMS Read Something Amazing Google Classroom and should be completed after reading your selected book from the choices given on this page. Please make sure to submit the completed form by September 15, 2023. If you did not join that Google Classroom when the presentation was given to your ELA class in June, you can join now using code: 5pxg5hf
Prompt 1 - Choose one prompt about character and respond to it in a few sentences on the form in Google Classroom.
What did the main character learn in the book?
What is an experience of your own that was similar to someone in the book?
Choose one character from the book and write what you think happens to them after the end of the story.
Prompt 2 - Choose one prompt about plot, conflict or theme and respond to it in a few sentences on the form in Google Classroom.
Which event from the story stood out for you as memorable? Why was that memorable?
Explain a different way that the author could have resolved one of the conflicts (problem) in the book.
Choose one word to describe this story. For example: funny, sad, moving, or motivational. Then, provide two details from the story that support the word you chose.
Prompt 3 - Choose one prompt about your thoughts on your book and respond to it in a few sentences on the form in Google Classroom.
What will be your most vivid memories of this book a year from now? Provide one specific detail to support your answer.
If you could jump in at any point this book, and become part of the storyline, where would it be? Provide details and your reasoning.
What do you think the author was trying to accomplish with this novel? Why? Provide details and your reasoning.
Book Choices
I AM PRINCESS X
I AM PRINCESS X
Best friends Libby Deaton and May Harper invented Princess X when they were in fifth grade, but when the car Libby is in goes off a bridge, she is presumed dead, and the story came to an end--except now, three years later, Princess X is suddenly everywhere, with a whole underground culture focused on a webcomic, and May believes her friend must be alive. This is a combination of a novel and a comic.
MELISSA
MELISSA
Knowing herself to be a girl despite her outwardly male appearance, George is denied a female role in the class play before teaming up with a friend to reveal her true self.
NEW KID
NEW KID
New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real.
SCHOOLED
SCHOOLED
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie, but when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
TIGHT
TIGHT
After his quick-tempered father gets in a fight and is sent back to jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for being quiet and thoughtful, snaps and follows new friend Mike into trouble.
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