myON.com = Summer Reading Requirement

Summer Reading for Seaholm and Groves High Schools

In addition to reading The Fellowship of the Ring, students will be reading several selections using the online app called myON.com.

• 5,000 digital books – including graphic novels, sports books, fantasy, how-to books, etc.

• SAME user name and password as you use logging into Derby computers

• HOMEWORK:  MUST log into myon.com and complete the interest survey and the reading assessment by Monday Jun 13th!

• IMPORTANT:  Must click on the word “END” at the end of each book you read in order for teachers to know that you read the book.

• HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING:  expectation to have read several digital books.

https://www.myon.com/

http://thefutureinreading.myon.com/overview/myon-reader-goes-mobile

DUE Monday 6/10/16 - Derby students must complete the interest survey as well as the reading skills test before class.  Worth 20 points.

Final Assignment Deadlines

FINAL PUSH!!!


___ Science Fiction Journal Responses Section 1 thru 3 - DUE Monday 6/6/16 by midnight (worth 30 points)

___ Science Fiction Journal Responses Section 4 thru 7 - DUE Friday 6/10/16 by midnight (worth 40 points)

* ADDED ___ myON.com interest survey and reading assessment due Monday 6/13/16 in class (worth 20 points)

___ Semi-colons Sentence Composing in Criterion Due Monday 6/13/16 by midnight (worth 25 points + 5 points of extra credit)

___ Science Fiction Journal Responses Section 8 thru 14 - DUE Tuesday 6/14/16 by midnight (worth 70 points)

___ Return Checked Out Science Fiction Novels - DUE Wednesday 6/14/16

___ Science Fiction Presentations (Powerpoint, Google Slides, Prezi) DUE Wednesday 6/14/16 during class (worth 70 points)

___ Criterion Extra Credit Options O or P - DUE by Thursday by midnight 6/16/16 (worth up to 20 points)

Extra Credit Option - Writing Practice - Criterion Options O and/or P

Because of popular demand, as an option students may do up to two additional criterion assignments.  Any assignment that gets a score of 4 to 5 out of 6 will get 5 points.  Any assignment that gets 6 out of 6 will get 10 points.  Total possible:  20 points.

Please contact Mr. Chappell once you've completed your writing practice if you want credit for you work.

Option O - The public library in your neighborhood has announced that it will no longer allow patrons under the age of sixteen to use its computers. The announcement argues that children under the age of sixteen rarely need computers for research and are more likely to damage or misuse the computers. Write a letter to the head of the library in which you argue against this new policy. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

The deadline for either is Thursday, 6/16/16.  After that date there will be no extra credit offered.

Option P - It has just been discovered that Mars is a planet that can sustain life. The government is choosing people to go there and establish a colony. You want to be chosen to spend a year there as a pioneer. Write an essay persuading the government to choose you as one of the first inhabitants of Mars. Clearly describe how choosing you would benefit the project.

Sentence Composing Semi-Colons

The following sentence-composing exercises were done in class and will be due in Criterion by Monday 6/13/16 by midnight and is worth 25 points.

1. She did not try / to make her meals nauseating; / she simply didn’t know how not to.

2. The sound was like the scream / of a rabbit caught / in an owl’s talons ; / my flesh crawled.

3. Her father’s penmanship was small, precise, slightly feminine; / her mother’s had been a jumble / of capital and lowercase.

4. She said she had some luggage / and her children were sick; / they were still vomiting from time to time, / and so, / for that matter, / was she.

5. A man who was wise / found that his wisdom was needed / in every camp; / a man who was a fool / could not change his folly / with his world.

6. There would be a pageant / for the grown ups; / there would be apple-bobbing, / taffy-pulling, pinning the tail on the donkey / for the children.

7. With the force of a bullet, / the wad of chewing gum shot out / of the keyhole and / straight down Peeve’s left nostril; / he whirled upright / and zoomed away, cursing.

8. She had a rare culinary gift; / she could skin a beef tongue, / dress a hen, / make twenty empanadas without drawing a breath, / and spend hours on end shelling beans.

9. Percival, / the smallest boy on the island, / was mouse-colored / and had not been very attractive / even to his mother;  / Johnny, / his brother, / was well built, / with fair hair and a natural belligerence.

As an extra credit option, you may share a 10th sentence from a science fiction novel or other choice novel that contains a semi-colon and includes the author, title, and page number where the sentence was found.

Example / Template for Science Fiction Book Club Presentations

The following link is to a PowerPoint example to be used as a model and/or template for your presentations:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_i4DDlfmOFiWTlLbFF1NXBZR28/view?usp=sharing

Students may prefer to use Google Slides in order to facilitate collaboration:

https://www.google.com/slides/about/

And here is the same slides converted to Google Slides.  Please feel free to COPY this only.  Do not edit it until you've copied it.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18QfL28Lv-raPBbRH-0a_ZiEC0caVGKodlNmV-uiUsdM/edit?usp=sharing

Format for Science Fiction Book Club Journal Entries

SECTION 1

Title: The Hunger Games

Written by:  John Doe

Editing by:  Jane Doe

Team:  John Doe, Jane Doe, Jim Jameson, Steve Stevens, John Johnson

Summary Paragraph

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Title: The Hunger Games

Written by:  Jane Doe

Editing by:  John Doe

Team:  John Doe, Jane Doe, Jim Jameson, Steve Stevens, John Johnson

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Science Fiction Book Club Deadlines

Sections 1 – 3 (6 total paragraphs) due Monday 6/6 (30 points)
Sections 4 – 7 (10 total paragraphs) due Friday 6/10 (40 points)
Sections 8 – 14 (12 total paragraphs) due Tuesday 6/13 (70 points)

Instructions:

Write 2 paragraphs per section. The first paragraph summarizes the events of the novel.  The second paragraph names and describes how the science fiction elements impact the world of the story, the character's lives, and the decisions of the characters. Make sure to label each section and include the journal entry's writer and editor.

Each day the paragraphs are late, the grade goes down 10%.

Science Fiction Elements

THINK ABOUT:
How the science fiction elements affect:

- Personal Relationships
-Families
-Religion
-Community
-Moral Choices
-Lifestyles
-Child-Rearing


**The Giver
Potential Elements/Topics:  Eugenics, Designer Babies, Population Control, Distopia, Euthanasia…

**Ender’s Game
Potential Elements/Topics:  Government Suppression of Religion, Species and Human Genocide, One World Government, Extraterrestrial Life, Videogames and Violence, Edu-tainment (video games as schools), Eugenics...

**Fahrenheit 451
Potential Elements/Topics:  Freedom of Speech, Banned Books, Questioning Authority, Propaganda, The McCarthy Era, The Red Scare, Salman Rushdie, Distopia...

Jurassic Park
Potential Elements/Topics:  GMOS, Genetically-Modified Species, Frankenfood, Darwinism, Survival of the Fittest, Keeping Predators in Captivity, Bringing Back Endangered and Extinct Species...

The Martian
Potential Elements/Topics:  Space Exploration, Manned-Mission to Mars, The Mars Rover, Planetary Colonization, Interplanetary Farming, Terraforming, Psychological Effects of Extreme Isolation...

The Hunger Games Trilogy (any one book)
Potential Elements/Topics: Violence in the Media, War Reparations, “The 1%,” Government Propaganda, PTSD, Social Hierarchy, Protesting, Poor Uprising, Distopia...

Divergent Series (any in series)
Potential Elements/Topics:  Segregation, Apartheid, Tracking Human Potential, Rigid Caste Systems, Social Hierarchy, Protesting, Uprising, Elite “1,” Distopia...

Maze Runner (any in series)
Potential Elements/Topics:  Mind Control, Child-labor, Slavery & Indentured Servitude, Memory Erasing, Telepathy, Environmental Collapse...

Uglies
Potential Elements/Topics:  The Beauty Myth/Advantage, Mind Control, Body Shaming...

Unwind
Potential Elements/Topics:  Defiance/Rebellion, Capital Punishment, Body Part Harvesting, Genetic Regression...

The Time Machine
Potential Elements/Topics:  Caste System, Time Travel...

War of the Worlds
Potential Elements/Topics:  Biological/Germ Warfare, Extraterrestrial Life, Invasion...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Potential Elements/Topics:  Planetary Destruction, Interplanetary Travel, Space Ships Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Super Computers, The Meaning of Life...

*Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Potential Elements/Topics:  Virtual Reality, Easter Eggs, 80s pop culture, Multinational Corporations, Overpopulation, Environmental Destruction, Gaming Guilds/Clans, Free Enterprise, Care for / Housing of the Poor/Poverty, Corporate Terrorism, Online Education...

*Parental permission required

** Copies available in school

Science Fiction Book Club Schedule

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

What elements of science fiction exist in your novel?

FINAL PRODUCTS:

1) A reading journal
- 1 paragraph (3+ sentences) summary
- 1 paragraph (3+ sentences) addressing question

2) Informal a group presentation

Date                                                     Chapter(s) Journal Writer          Journal Editor
1 Wednesday, 6/1
2 Thursday, 6/2
3 Friday, 6/3 (talent show)
4 Saturday, 6/4
5 Sunday, 6/5
6 Monday, 6/6
7 Tuesday, 6/7
8 Wednesday, 6/8
9 Thursday, 6/9
10 Friday, 6/10 (field day)
11 Saturday, 6/11
12 Sunday, 6/12
13 Monday, 6/13
14 Tuesday, 6/14

15 Wednesday, 6/15 – Presentations

16 Thursday, 6/16 – Cedar Point
17 Half Day , 6/17 – yearbooks

Science Fiction Book Clubs

Below are rough examples of the paragraphs to be written in the 14 sections of your sci-fi novel.

#1 Summary Paragraph

Questions:
What happens?  Who, what, when, where, how and why?
What events take place?
What important decisions do characters make?
How do events create a cause-and-effect chain?  This event causes this to happen, and therefore this person now has to do this…

Grading Guide:
- Demonstrates knowledge of the events of the story
- Names specific important characters, places, and story ideas
- Captures the overall plot without going into too much detail
- Does not leave gaps that create confusion for the reader.  In other words, an average person could understand.
- Uses correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.

Example:
Flowers for Algernon pages 220 - 223
A cognitively impaired 38-year-old man named Charlie Gordon keeps a journal about the events happening to him.  He enrolled in an adult learning course to improve his reading with a teacher named Ms. Kinnian.  She recommended him to participate in a study  where he takes Rorschach tests in order to qualify for an experimental surgery that could increase his intelligence.  He also competes with a mouse named Algernon to solve maze puzzles.


#2 Science Fiction Elements Paragraph

Questions:
What specific elements of science fiction are introduced or at play in this narrative?
How are the science fiction elements first introduced to the reader? (early chapters)
How do the science fiction elements affect the main character or characters?
How do the science fiction elements affect the world or society?
How do the science fiction elements affect the plot events?

Grading Guide:
- Names the science fiction elements as concepts
- Explores how the science fictions elements play out in the world
- Does not leave gaps that create confusion for the reader.  In other words, an average person could understand.
- Uses correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.

Example:
Flowers for Algernon, pages 220 – 223
The short story examines the idea of what would happen if a surgery could be performed that would increase a human being’s intelligence.  This affects how Charlie sees himself.  In the beginning, Charlie sees himself as “dumb” and in the text of his journal his writing is full of many errors.  His relationship with Algernon, the mouse, is one of rivalry, as the mouse appears “smarter” to him.  He also misunderstands the concepts of the experiments he is undergoing, calling the maze tests “amazes” and missing the concepts about abstract thinking connected to the ink blot tests. In other words, Charlie feels confused often and has low self-esteem.