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Summer Reading Requirements & Assignments

All Benton students are required to complete a summer reading assignment. Specific titles and details about the One-Pager assignment are listed below. Also, students who are 12 and under can earn a free book from Barnes & Noble, and Borders Bookstores this summer. The forms can be downloaded here. Happy Reading!

All Grade Levels:

Students are required to create a “One-Pager” in response to the novel read due on the First Day of School in September. See the directions and a sample one-pager for detailed instructions.


Incoming 6th Grade Students

 

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

(Available in the Benton School Office)

 

Incoming 7th Grade Students:

 

Choose any one of the following novels, and create a One-Pager:

Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Baron
Redwall  by Brian Jacques

 

Incoming 8th Grade Students:

 

Choose any one of the following novels, and create a One-Pager:

The Good Earth by Pearl. S. Buck
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Around The World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
My Sister's Keeper by Judy Picoult
The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowry Nixon
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury




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