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25 Books on Food Tank's Summer 2021 Reading List – Food Tank
 
School Theme: Strength for the Journey
 
My name is Mrs. Casey Hadjis and this is my tenth year at St. Joseph Catholic School. I currently teach sixth through eighth grades Reading/Literature including Latin & Greek. I earned my undergraduate degree from Marquette University and my master's degree in education from DePaul University.  I look forward to another wonderful year with my sixth, seventh, and eighth graders!
 
 
 

 

 

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Week at a Glance: January 9-12, 2024

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will identify character traits in short stories.
  • Students will practice making inferences in short stories.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 10.
  • Students will read independent novels.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will identify nonfiction text structure and text features in a Scope article.
  • Students will perform readers' theater.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 10.
  • Students will read independent novels.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will complete novel study of The Outsiders including charcter development and story elements.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 10.
  • Students will read independent novels.

Week at a Glance: December 18-22, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will identify character types in stories and independent novels.
  • Students will participate in classroom spelling bee.
  • Students will read independent novels.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will identify character traits in the movie "Remember the Titans."
  • Students will participate in classroom spelling bee.
  • Students will read independent novels.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of The Outsiders including character development, plot elements, and use of humor.
  • Students will participate in classroom spelling bee.
  • Students will read independent novels.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.

Week at a Glance: December 11-15, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue mythology project.
  • Students will identify different character types.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 9.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will complete character analysis.
  • Students will read a Who Is/Who Was book in class.
  • Students will complete a biography slide show.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of The Outsiders including comprehension and literary devices.
  • Students will analyze and memorize a poem from The Outsiders.
  • Students will read independent novel.

Week at a Glance: December 4-8, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will compare the movie version of Holes to the book.
  • Students will create a project based on a Greek myth.
  • Students will visit the school library.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will distinguish between direct and indirect characterization.
  • Students will create an in-depth character analysis from independent novel.
  • Students will meet in small groups to discuss character analysis.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 9.
  • Students will visit the school library.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will begin novel study of The Outsiders including character, setting, and literary devices.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 9.
  • Students will visit the school library.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
  • Students will read independent novel.

Week at a Glance: November 27-December 1, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will complete a book review for the novel Holes.
  • Students will check comprehension for the novel Holes.
  • Students will perform a readers' theater about Olympians Rising.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 8.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will identify key ideas and details in a narrative nonfiction text.
  • Students will design a monument to Navajo Code Talkers.
  • Students will find and use text evidence from two related texts.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 8.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will complete The Outsiders centers including slang of the 1960s, cars and music of the 1960s, greaser subculture, author study, and America in 1960s.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 8.
  • Students will read independent novel.

Week at a Glance: November 20-21, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of Holes including character traits, inference, and figurative language.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will complete i-Ready Growth Monitoring and lesson.
  • Students will perform a readers' theater play.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will complete i-Ready Growth Monitoring and lesson.
  • Students will complete a Gratitude paper.

Week at a Glance: November 13 - 17, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of Holes including figurative language, character traits, and inference.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 7.
  • Students will read independent novel.
  • Students will complete i-Ready growth monitoring.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will complete novel study of Touching Spirit Bear including character traits, sensory details, and word choice.
  • Students will complete final project for Touching Spirit Bear including character, setting, and theme.
  • Students will read independent novel.
  • Students will complete i-Reaedy growth monitoring.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will perform readers' theater of "Olympians Rising."
  • Students will create a comic strip of scenes from play.
  • Students will conference and journal on independent novels.
  • Students will complete i-Ready growth monitoring.

Week at a Glance: November 6-9, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of Holes including author style, parallel story lines, and character motivation.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin & Greek unit 6.
  • Students will practice identifying vocabulary in context.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of Touching Spirit Bear including point of view, character traits, sensory details, and word choice.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin & Greek unit 7.
  • Students will practice identifying vocabulary in context.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will identify key ideas and details in a narrative nonfiction text.
  • Students will design a monument to honor the Code Talkers.
  • Students will find and use evidence from two related texts.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin & Greek unit 7.
  • Students will practice identifying vocabulary in context.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
  • Students will read independent novel.

Week at a Glance: October 30-November 3, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will perform readers' theater of The Headless Horseman.
  • Students will continue novel study of Holes including cause/effect, character traits and author style.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin & Greek unit 5.
  • Students will read independent novels.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will perform readers' theater of The Headless Horseman.
  • Students will continue novel study of Touching Spirit Bear including word choice, point of view, text evidence, and sensory details.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin & Greek unit 6.
  • Students will read independent novels.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will perform readers' theater of The Headless Horseman.
  • Students will finish annotations of Prisoner B-3087 including direct and indirect characterization.
  • Students will begin final project for novel.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin & Greek unit 6.
  • Students will read independent novels.

Week at a Glance: October 23 - 27, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of Holes including comprehension, inference, and characteristics.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 5.
  • Students will visit the school library.
  • Students will read independent novel.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of Touching Spirit Bear including character development and figurative language.
  • Students will create 6-word stories for part one of TSB.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 6.
  • Students will visit the school library.
  • Students will read independent novels.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue annotations of Prisoner B-3087 including comprehension, close reading, and poetry.
  • Students will create a one-page project on an upstander from the Holocaust.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 6.
  • Students will visit the school library.
  • Students will read independent novels.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.

Week at a Glance: October 16-18, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of Holes including character, setting, and inference.
  • Students will complete Growth Monitoring for i-Ready Reading.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of Touching Spirit Bear including static v. dynamic characters, and inferences.
  • Students will complete Growth Monitoring for i-Ready Reading.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue annotation of Prisoner B-3087.
  • Students will complete Growth Monitoring for i-Ready Reading.
  • Students will read independent novel.

Week at a Glance: October 9-13, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will present information from Holes lit centers including desert habitat and reptile/amphibean video.
  • Students will begin novel study of Holes including characters, setting, word choice, and figurative language.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 4.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue novel study of Touching Spirit Bear including characters, figurative language, plot, dynamic v static characters.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin 7 Greek unit 4.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
  • Students will read independent novel.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue annotations of Prisoner B-3087 including settings, literary devices, and character development.
  • Students will visit the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 5.
  • Students will complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
  • Students will read independent novel.
 

Week at a Glance: October 2-6, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will begin work on Holes lit centers including author study, desert research, settings, and Jim Crow Laws.
  • Students will present information from lit centers
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 3. 
  • Students will conference on i-Ready Reading results and goals.
  • Students will read independent novels.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will begin novel study of Touching Spririt Bear including characterization, connections, sensory details, protagonist/antagonist.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 4.
  • Students will conference on i-Ready Reading results and goals.
  • Students will visit the school library.
  • Students will read independent novels.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue annotation of Prisoner B-3087 including literary devices, foreshadowing, and comprehension.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 4.
  • Students will conference on i-Ready Reading results and goals.
  • Students will read independent novels.

Week at a Glance: September 25 - 29, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will check comprehension of plot elements.
  • Students will identify vocabulary in context.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 3.
  • Students will read independent novel.
  • Students will successfully complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue work on Touching Spirit Bear lit centers including author study, kermode bears, totem poles, restorative justice, Tlingit Indians, and Alaska.
  • Students will begin novel study of Touching Spirit Bear including characters and setting.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 3.
  • Students will read independent novel.
  • Students will successfully complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will use primary sources to investigate the Nuremberg Laws.
  • Students will continue novel study and annotation of Prisoner B-3087 including main events, foreshadowing, and settings.
  • Students will complete Latin & Greek unit 3.
  • Students will read independent novel.
  • Students will successfully complete one i-Ready Reading lesson.

Week at a Glance: September 18 - 21, 2023

Sixth Grade Reading:
  • Students will demonstrate mastery of plot elements.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin & Greek unit 2.
  • Students will identify central idea in informational text.
  • Students will read independent novels.
  • Students will visit the school library.
Seventh Grade Reading:
  • Students will identify and write about mood in their independent novels.
  • Students will begin work on Touching Spirit Bear lit centers including author study, kermode bears, totem poles, restorative justice, Tlingit Indians, and Alaska.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin & Greek unit 2.
  • Students will read independent novels.
Eighth Grade Reading:
  • Students will continue annotation of Prisoner B-3087 including figurative language, plot and character development.
  • Students will check comprehension of Latin & Greek unit 2.
  • Students will read independent novels.
  • Students will visit the school library.