1. Take a 1/2 sheet. Write one or two words for each of the following categories (you may NOT use the examples as one of your words):
1. Traits and personalities that people can have (example: love, anger, patience, etc.):
2. Words that describe something (example: terrible, ridiculous, etc.):
3. Action words (example: plan, operate, produce, etc.):
4. Types of places you can go to (example: moon, airport, school, etc.):
We will be doing creative activities with the words.

2. MMS Summer Reading Rising 8th Graders
Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson
I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

3. MMS Summer Reading
Rising 8th Graders

4. Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera
“Maybe Holgy's right. Maybe we are all holograms.”  ― Anna Perera, Guantanamo Boy
Review (
"Set six months after 9/11, this unforgettable novel raises crucial headline issues through the story of teenage Khalid, born near Manchester, England in a secular Muslim family." Starred Review, Booklist "Readers will feel every ounce of Khalid's terror, frustration, and helplessness in this disturbing look at a sad, ongoing chapter in contemporary history." Publishers Weekly "This gripping look at a poorly defined war's unintended consequences uniquely challenges readers to examine common beliefs and ask searching questions about means and ends." Kirkus Reviews

5. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
"'I'd like to write this showing the point of view of the help. The colored women down here.' I tried to picture Constantine's face, Aibileen's. 'They raise a white child and then twenty years later the child becomes the employer. It's that irony, that we love them and they love us, yet...' I swallowed, my voice trembling. 'We don't even allow them to use the toilet in the house.'"
pg. 125
"Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else."
pg. 83

6. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming is a 2014 adolescent novel told in verse by author Jacqueline Woodson. It discusses the author's childhood as an African American growing up in the 1960s and '70s in South Carolina and New York. (

7. I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora
When Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see To Kill A Mockingbird included. But not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee classic. They plan controversial ways to get people to read the book, including re-shelving copies of the book in bookstores so that people think they are missing and starting a website committed to "destroying the mockingbird." Their efforts are successful when all of the hullabaloo starts to direct more people to the book. But soon, their exploits start to spin out of control and they unwittingly start a mini revolution in the name of books.

8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”  ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.”  ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that? ”  ― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

10. Things to do:
Discuss the last part of the book Ask Me No Questions.
Discuss the summer reading list books.
Finish Assessments (if applicable).
3. MMS Student Saves the MMS Universe
4. Video Games on:
5. Apples to Apples
6. Password
7. Create your own superhero slogan 8.

11. How does the book end?
The following slides include summaries of the final chapters of Ask Me No Questions.

18. Stories in Which Peace Solves the Problem… not fighting