Social Studies
:
Choose any one novel from the following list:
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder: A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, and become involved in a murder. Gradually, the game becomes more and more real, and frightening things begin to happen in the neighborhood.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor: An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination that its children do not understand.
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis: Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring justice to the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family’s freedom.
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell: This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away.
Science:
Choose any one novel from the following list:
Call of the Wild by Jack London: The adventures of an unusual dog who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L’Engle: The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who wants to destroy the entire universe.
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel: Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s surface.
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells: A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.
CLASSES 6H1 6H2 6H3 ONLY
English Language Arts:
Required Reading - All students entering the sixth grade honors program must read this novel! Please be advised that other sixth grade classes will be reading a different novel.
*Scat by Carl Hiaasen: Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
*Please take detailed chapter notes for this novel, as it will be used during your ELA class at the beginning of the school year. These notes will be collected and graded, but more importantly, they will help you to recall all of the important information you have read while the novel is being discussed in class.
CLASSES: 601 602 603 604 605 606 615 618 ONLY
English Language Arts:
Required Reading - All students entering the sixth grade must read this novel!
*The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg: Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
*Please take detailed chapter notes for this novel, as it will be used during your ELA class at the beginning of the school year. These notes will be collected and graded, but more importantly, they will help you to recall all of the important information you have read while the novel is being discussed in class.