OES Summer Reading Challenge 2011

Sponsored by Friends of the OES Library

Name: _________________________

• Read at least TEN books (new to you) OR 2,011 pages OR read for 30 hours.

• Your required Summer Reading Program book counts on this list too!

• Record the titles and authors of your books below.

• Add the # of pages or # of hours, depending how you are keeping track.

• Classics count double – either as two books or as twice the number of pages! (but NOT 2x the number of hours)

• Ask one of your parents to sign your list.

• Bring your signed list to the Middle School library by Monday, September 12.

• We will have a Summer Reading Challenge celebration later in September.

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# of hours spent reading: _________ Parent signature: __________________________

• Do you want a Summer Reading Challenge T-shirt? If yes, please circle the size you

would like.

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Summer Reading Challenge artwork designed by Claire Huffman '15

Shakespeare in the library on Thursday, 5/12/11

The Great OES Seventh Grade

Shakespeare Trivia Contest

Questions about Shakespeare’s life and times, his plays, and his poetry

Team with the greatest number of points wins bragging rights -- your teachers will custom create a brag in Shakespearean Language!

• Four students per team

• Draw questions out of a basket, one question per team at a time

• Search for answers in books, databases, websites –- be sure to try the MSL catalog search that finds books and websites for you!
  

1. one of each kind of resource required for each question
2. you may add additional resources slips for each question, but only after having gotten the initial three

• When you find the answer, write it on the same slip of paper that the question is written on, and place it in “your group stack.” This is your “group report.”

• Attach a slip of paper with the title of the resource used to find the answer – these are your “works cited”; you must give me enough information so that I can find the answer!

pink for a website (1 pt.)

yellow for an OES database (2 pts.)

orange for a book (2 pt.)

• (optional -- If we run out of questions, begin to create additional trivia questions – write down the question on a lavender sheet of paper.)

• After 25 minutes we will stop to read out the questions and your answers

On Friday Ms. Spooner will review answers and tally each legible and/or viable one

• the # of correct answers – one point/answer
• the # of resources

2 points/book

2 points/OES database

1 point/website

• (optional -- the # of additional trivia questions written – one point per additional question written)

5/12/11

Week of May 9, 2011

Cell Phone Science: What Happens When You Call and Why
Michele Sequeira and Michael Westphal
621.38
WES

Traces the history of cell phones, explaining how they work from a scientific perspective, and examining the electrical components, technologies, and other related concepts, with information on transmission, plastics, software, and semiconductor chips. (TitleWave)

The Last Little Blue Envelope
Maureen Johnson
FIC JOH

Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist. (Novelist)

World Without Fish
Mark Kurlansky
338.3
KUR

Describes what is happening to fish, the oceans, and the environment in the early twenty-first century, explaining how commonly-consumed fish, such as tuna, cod, and salmon, are disappearing; and discussing the impact of overfishing on other species and the effects of fishing on the oceans. (TitleWave)

1861: The Civil War Awakening
by Adam Goodheart
973.7 GOO

The book introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become president. Adam Goodheart takes us from the corridors of the White House to the slums of Manhattan, from the mouth of the Chesapeake to the deserts of Nevada, from Boston Common to Alcatraz Island, vividly evoking the Union at this moment of ultimate crisis and decision. (Publisher)

Delirium
by Lauren Oliver
FIC OLI

Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

Hothead
by Cal Kipken, Jr.
FIC RIP

Connor Sullivan, All-Star third baseman on his Babe Ruth League team, has a terrible temper and problems at home, but when the sports editor of the school paper threatens to publish an embarrassing story about his tantrums, Connor must make a change. (NoveList)



Coming Tuesday, May 3, 2011!
The Throne of Fire (#2 in the Kane Chronicles)
by Rick Riordan