Welcome to Seventh Grade! A Note from the Principal Congratulations! You are ready helps you do that. It helps you for seventh grade! All your strengthen vocabulary, fluency, hard work this year has paid off and comprehension.
and I am proud of you. I know Summer 2014 you have learned many things It’s good to read some things in regards to reading this year. by yourself and it’s still okay to Inside this issue: One of the most important listen to your parents read too. Assignment #1 2 things I hope you have Make sure you take some time experienced is that practice pays to show your parents what What You Need to Know 2 off. It’s important to continue you’re reading. Maybe your Assingment #2 3 reading for fun. Your teachers parents will read the books with Ms. Taffet’s & Mrs. Kohut’s have picked out some good you. It can be fun to dialogue Recommendation 4
books for you to read this together about what you’re Mr. Interrante’s Recommendation 4 reading. Don’t forget that it’s summer. Take a look through Mrs. Garnett’s Recommendation 4 this packet to find your important to make time to read summer activities. like you did during the school year with your homework. Did you know that sixth graders who read during the summer I hope you have a summer filled are better prepared for seventh with many experiences with grade in the fall? Now that you your families. I look forward to know that you can read to learn seeing you again in August! new things, you build upon what you already know by Mr. O’Sullivan reading more. Reading for fun
From Your Teachers Welcome to 7th grade! We first weeks of school. on the first day of school, look forward to learning with You will receive the Summer August 18, 2014. you this year. Math Skills Sharpener The written assignment for workbook, which you’ll be summer reading will be due the responsible for completing. first day of class. Students may All of your reading be given more assignments on assignments and math the summer reading during the workbook must be returned 2 Assignment #1 Read Rifles for Watie by from the novel. Be sure to Harold Keith. The focus is number each example for Jefferson Davis Bussey’s each category. development from a naïve Courage sixteen-year-old into a mature gentleman and Initiative soldier. Explain how Jeff Self-confidence shows his maturity by giving three examples of the traits to Making good the right. For each example decisions write complete sentences which provide details
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These are great Book Trailers about the story and the time period. However, each one has at least 1 spelling error. On the first day, if you bring a piece of paper with all of the mistakes written and
corrected, you will receive 5 bonus points on this assignment.
What You Need to Know:
Jefferson Bussey is sixteen discovery that the Rebels an extremely difficult when the Civil War breaks are young men just like decision. To whom will he
out. His desire is to him. Later after he has show his loyalty? contribute to the honor basically served for the and glory of war by Union and Rebel armies,
fighting as a soldier in the he has information vital to The picture below will be a snapshot of Union Army. Soon he the success of each. The one of the homeroom teachers reading discovers that war is not all war becomes more intense the book. power and success. He and soon he must make experiences starvation, exhaustion, fear, and loss. “With both armies now at full fire power, he was conscious only of the awful When Jeff is chosen to thunder clap of battle. There were no clear thoughts in his head. He thought of infiltrate the enemy as a victory nor defeat but rather that the end of the world was coming…” spy he makes an important –Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie, Ch. 12 3 Assignment #2 Read one book from the Book List and type a 2 page review. The review should be in Calibri (body) 11 font. It should include your first and last name at the bottom of 2nd sheet on the right side of the paper with grade and section after your name. Beginning 7th Grade Reading List You are required to choose one book from this list to complete Assignment #2 Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain After Many Days by L.M. Montgomery A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman Charlie Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Death Comes for for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata Maze Runner by James Dashner Messenger by Lois Lowry O Pioneers by Willa Cather Ranger’s Apprentice (series) by John Flanagan Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Take Me to the River by Will Hobbs Tales of Old Time Texas by J. Frank Dobie The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell The Kind of Friends We Used to Be by Frances O’Roark Dowell The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter The Virginian by Owen Wister Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne True Grit by Charles Portis
Mrs. Czinege & Mrs. Kohut’s Recommendation: In Death Comes for the her words, Cather reveals October, eighth graders will Archbishop, Willa Cather the fusion of numerous have the opportunity to narrates the exciting cultures and religions experience the book—that adventure of two French that took place in the is, the Taos trip will bring the priests who attempt to nineteenth century. book’s characters and places evangelize the peoples of During the Taos trip in to life! You will actually see New Mexico. Cather’s remnants of the courageous story is not your typical priests’ adventures in New read; the author writes the Mexico. Death Comes for the story in a unique, Archbishop will not only descriptive format. inspire you, but it will make Painting a picture of the the Taos trip more beautiful landscapes with meaningful! Mr. Interrante’s Recommendation: Do you love adventure How long does it take to stories? Jules Verne is one go around the world? You of my favorite authors got it, an even 80. because of his scientific knowledge that is weaved into his stories. There is Check out this Book Trailer: even a passage in this book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXj that mentions a kind of evOTlusc time travel. Mrs. Garnett’s Recommendation: “Really, it’s a very ordinary- group of students in Tokyo I often get asked, looking suitcase. A little tattered who are determined to learn “Do you have around the edges, but in good more about her; and Hana’s anything like condition.” We quickly learn, brother George, a survivor however, that the story that the Number the who eventually moved to suitcase tells is far from ordinary. Canada. Hana’s Suitcase is one Stars or The That’s because it belonged to of the most compelling non- Diary of Anne Hana Brady, a young victim of fiction stories you’ll ever read! the Holocaust. The story Frank?” I think alternates between the Hana’s Suitcase, is a worthy perspective of Hana’s story; a answer. This true story begins,