rising grade 7 language and literature resources...rising grade 7 language and literature resources:...
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Rising Grade 7 Language and Literature resources:
If you want book recommendations for the coming summer, one great source is the Newberry Medal winners. Newberry books are consistently outstanding. For globally focused texts, I have enclosed a list of age appropriate suggestions for 7th graders. Please feel free to be in touch if you have any questions or would like additional information.
The Boise Public Library offers great support. Their summer reading program has already started and is open to all ages. Please note that the program has changed this year; people do not need to sign up and there are not separate programs for children and adults. (Details are available online.) After you complete your first five activities, you can claim a free book!
In addition to thinking about how often and what they will read, I encouraged students to think about writing and discussion goals too. One student has a goal to convince everyone in her family to read what she is reading so they can all talk about it together. Fantastic! You can continue to help your children think about goals that are specific and joyful.
In addition to fiction, reading nonfiction and current events over the summer will support students' growth. Ms. B recommends reading current events alongside your child and asking them questions.
Please don't hesitate to touch base if you have any questions or we can support your family in some way.
Summer Big Read!
Riverstone’s Middle and High School Summer Read is a shared intellectual journey for all students in Grades 6-12. This is the second year of a regular experience each summer for our students. Students purchase and read the selected book over the summer and prepare a short response paper highlighting something they find particularly compelling with regard to the theme that drove this year’s selection. As an alternative assignment, they can make a soundtrack for the book by picking a song/piece of music that fits each chapter of the book. For each selected song the student should write a no more than 50 word explanation of how the selected song fits a particular chapter of the book and how it relates to the theme. Each student should be prepared to discuss what they feel a meaningful or purposeful life for them would be.
During the first week of school students will meet in small groups for a discussion and reflection seminar led by a faculty member or administrator. These seminars will afford students a chance to meet their peers and to begin conversations based upon their shared readings and initial written reactions.
The theme that drove this year’s selections was: living a purposeful or meaningful life Grades 6-7 - The Inquisitors Tale: or, The Three Magical Children and their Holy Dog. Adam Gidwitz. Order paperback version.
Rising Grade 7 Summer Outline
The summer outline is a great resource for students who have just completed 6th grade Math. The Khan Academy links below are divided up by units: number theory, algebra, geometry and measurement, stats and probability, and coordinate geometry that will take students directly to the recommended exercise.
This summer I highly recommend that each student review the concepts that they have learned in 6th grade math to reinforce their learning in preparation for the 7th grade math course. I highly encourage each student to work through the outline about 1-2 hours a week throughout the summer.
Please take advantage of this opportunity. Doing this will help each student enter into 7th grade Math with a fresh understanding of the concepts from the previous year and will help them with their success next year.
• Links highlighted in RED are assumed knowledge for next year• Links highlighted in BLUE are concepts we have covered. We will review and build
upon them next year. • Links highlighted in PURPLE are a few concepts you will see next year.
Number Theory:Addition:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/addition-subtraction/e/addition_4
Subtraction: • http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/addition-subtraction/e/subtraction_4
Adding and Subtracting Negative Numbers:
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/absolute-value/add-sub-negatives/e/ ordering_negative_numbers
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/absolute-value/adding_subtracting_negatives/e/adding_and_subtracting_negative_numbers
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math/cc-7th-negative-numbers/cc-7th-add-sub-negatives/e/adding-negative-numbers-word-problems
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math/cc-7th-negative-numbers-add-and-subtract/cc-7th-add-sub-word-problems-w-negatives/e/negative-number-addition-and-subtraction--interpretation-problems
Multiplying:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/multiplication-division/e/multiplication_4
Dividing: • http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/multiplication-division/e/division_4
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-review-multiply-divide/arith-review-mult-digit-div-2/e/division_3
Multiplying and Dividing Negative Numbers:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/absolute-value/mult_div_negatives/e/
multiplying_and_dividing_negative_numbers
Multiplication and Division Word Problems• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math/cc-4th-mult-div-topic/cc-4th-
mult-comparing/e/arithmetic_word_problems
Rounding Numbers: • http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/e/rounding_numbers
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-decimals/arith-review-rounding-decimals/e/rounding-decimals-using-a-number-line
Place Value
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/order-of-operations/place_value/e/place_value
Exponents: • https://www.khanacademy.org/math/in-seventh-grade-math/exponents-powers/in-
exponents/e/positive_and_zero_exponents
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/in-seventh-grade-math/exponents-powers/in-exponents/e/powers-of-ten
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/in-seventh-grade-math/exponents-powers/laws-exponents-examples/e/exponents_1.5
Square Roots and cube roots:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/exponents-radicals/e/square_roots
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/exponents-radicals/radical-radicals/e/square_roots_2
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/exponents-radicals/cube-root-tutorial/e/cube_roots
Order of Operations: • https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/pre-algebra-arith-prop/pre-algebra-
order-of-operations/e/order_of_operations_2
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra-basics/core-algebra-foundations/algebra-foundations-order-of-operations/e/order_of_operations
Lowest Common Multiple:
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/factors-multiples/least_common_multiple/e/least_common_multiple
Highest Common Factor: • http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/factors-multiples/e/
greatest_common_divisor
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/pre-algebra-factors-multiples/pre-algebra-greatest-common-divisor/e/gcf-and-lcm-word-problems
Manipulating Fractions:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/comparing_fractions_2
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/simplifying_fractions
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/equivalent_fractions
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/equivalent_fractions_2
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/converting_mixed_numbers_and_improper_fractions
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/fraction_word_problems_1
Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers:
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/Adding_and_subtracting_fractions/e/adding_fractions_with_common_denominators
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/in-sixth-grade-math/fractions-1/addition-subtraction-fractions/e/subtracting_fractions_with_common_denominators
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fraction-arithmetic/arith-review-add-sub-fractions/e/adding_fractions
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fraction-arithmetic/arith-review-add-sub-fractions/e/subtracting_fractions
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/adding_and_subtracting_fractions
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/Mixed_number_add_sub/e/adding_subtracting_mixed_numbers_1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/adding-subtracting-fractions-wp/e/adding-and-subtracting-fractions-with-unlike-denominators-word-problems
Multiplying Fractions:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/multiplying_and_dividing_frac/
e/multiplying_fractions_0.5
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/multiplying_mixed_numbers_1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fifth-grade-math/cc-5th-fractions-topic/cc-5th-mult-frac-word-probs/e/multiplying-fractions-by-fractions-word-problems
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fifth-grade-math/cc-5th-fractions-topic/cc-5th-mult-frac-word-probs/e/multiplying-fractions-and-whole-numbers-word-problems
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/multiplying_fractions
Dividing Fractions:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/dividing_fractions
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/fractions-pre-alg/dividing-fractions-pre-alg/e/dividing_fractions_0.5
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fraction-arithmetic/arith-review-dividing-fractions/e/dividing_fractions_1.5
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra-basics/basic-alg-foundations/alg-basics-fractions/e/dividing_fractions_2
Understanding Decimal Place Value:• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fifth-grade-math/cc-5th-place-value-decimals-
top/cc-5th-decimal-pv-intro/e/value-of-a-decimal-digit
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/decimals-pre-alg/decimal-place-value-pre-alg/e/writing-and-interpreting-decimals
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/decimals-pre-alg/decimal-place-value-pre-alg/e/comparing-decimal-place-value
Adding Decimals:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/e/adding_decimals_2
Subtracting Decimals:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/e/subtracting_decimals
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/adding_decimals/e/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems
Multiplying Decimals:• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/decimals-pre-alg/multiplying-
decimals-pre-alg/e/multiplying_decimals_0.5
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/decimals-pre-alg/multiplying-decimals-pre-alg/e/multiplying_decimals_1
Moving the Decimal:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/multiplying_decimals/e/
understanding_moving_the_decimal
Dividing Decimals:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/dividing_decimals/e/
dividing_decimals_0.5
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/e/dividing_decimals_1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/e/dividing_decimals_2
Decimal To Fraction:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/
converting_decimals_to_fractions_2
Fraction To Decimal:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions/e/
converting_fractions_to_decimals
Decimal To Percentage:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/percents/e/
converting_decimals_to_percents
Percentage To Decimal: • http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/percents/e/
converting_percents_to_decimals
Percentage Word Problems:
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/percent_tutorial/e/finding_percents
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/percents/e/percentage_word_problems_1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/percent_word_probs/e/discount_tax_and_tip_word_problems
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/percent_word_probs/e/markup_and_commission_word_problems
Look into Next Year’s Number Theory Unit
Simplifying Radicals:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/exponents-radicals/radical-
radicals/e/simplifying_radicals
Exponents and Scientific Notation:• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/exponents-radicals/negative-
exponents-tutorial/e/exponents_2
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/exponents-radicals/scientific-notation/e/scientific_notation
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/exponents-radicals/exponent-properties/e/exponent_rules
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/exponents-radicals/exponent-properties/e/properties-of-integer-exponents
Ratios and Proportions:
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-ratios-prop-topic/cc-6th-describing-ratios/e/representing-ratios
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-ratios-prop-topic/cc-6th-ratio-word-problems/e/ratio_word_problems
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-ratios-prop-topic/cc-6th-ratio-word-problems/e/solving-ratio-problems-with-tables
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/applying-math-reasoning-topic/multistep-word-problems-tut/e/multistep-equations-without-variables
Geometry and Measurement:Using a Protractor:
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/angles/e/measuring_angles
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-angle/measure-angles/e/drawing-angles
Complementary and Supplementary Angles:
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/angles/e/complementary_and_supplementary_angles
Parallel Lines:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/angles/e/parallel_lines_1
Vertical Angles:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/parallel-and-perpendicular-lines/
ang_intro/e/vertical_angles
Triangle:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/triangles/e/triangle_angles_1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/angles/e/angles_1
Quadrilateral:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/basic-geometry/e/quadrilateral_types
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/basic-geometry/e/quadrilateral_angles
Polygons:
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/quadrilaterals-and-polygons/e/angles_of_a_polygon
Perimeter: • http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/basic-geometry/perimeter_area_basics/
e/perimeter_1
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-perimeter/basic-geo-area-perimeter-polygon/e/perimeter-2
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/basic-geometry/circum_area_circles/e/radius_diameter_and_circumference
Area:• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/measurement/area-basics/e/
area_of_squares_and_rectangles
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-perimeter/basic-geo-area-perimeter-polygon/e/area_of_triangles_1
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-perimeter/basic-geo-area-perimeter-polygon/e/area_of_parallelograms
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-perimeter/basic-geo-area-perimeter-polygon/e/areas_of_trapezoids_rhombi_and_kites
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/basic-geometry/circum_area_circles/e/area_of_a_circle
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math/cc-4th-measurement-topic/cc-4th-area-and-perimeter/e/area-and-perimeter-of-rectangles-word-problems
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math/cc-4th-measurement-topic/cc-4th-area-and-perimeter/e/area_of_squares_and_rectangles
Volume: (surface area will be on a few of the links. This is for next year, but will be good to look at )
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fifth-grade-math/cc-5th-measurement-topic/cc-5th-volume/e/volume_1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-third-grade-math/cc-third-grade-measurement/cc-third-grade-mass-volume/e/volume-word-problems-1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fifth-grade-math/cc-5th-measurement-topic/cc-5th-volume/e/volume_2
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/basic-geometry/volume_tutorial/e/solid_geometry
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-geometry-topic/cc-6th-volume-surface-area/e/volume-word-problems-with-fractions
Look into Next Year’s Geometry and Measurement Exam:
Finding Angles:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/parallel-and-perpendicular-lines/
triang_prop_tut/e/angles_1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/parallel-and-perpendicular-lines/triang_prop_tut/e/angles_2
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/parallel-and-perpendicular-lines/complementary-supplementary-angl/e/angle_addition_postulate
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/in-seventh-grade-math/lines-angles/related-angles/e/vertical_angles_2
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/parallel-and-perpendicular-lines/ang-intro/e/parallel_lines_2
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math/cc-7th-geometry/cc-7th-area-volume-surface-area/e/area--volume--and-surface-area
Surface Area:
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-volume-surface-area/basic-geo-surface-area/e/nets-of-3d-figures
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-volume-surface-area/basic-geo-surface-area/e/surface-area
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-volume-surface-area/basic-geo-surface-area/e/surface-areas
Algebra Evaluating Expressions:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/e/
evaluating_expressions_1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/variable-and-expressions/e/evaluating_expressions_2
Combining Like Terms:
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-equivalent-exp/cc-6th-combining-like-terms/e/combining-like-terms-0.5
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/manipulating-expressions/e/combining_like_terms_1
Writing an Expression:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/
manipulating-expressions/e/writing_expressions_1
Solving Equations:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/e/
one_step_equations
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/equations_beginner/e/linear_equations_1
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra-basics/core-algebra-linear-equations-inequalities/core-algebra-solving-basic-equations/e/linear_equations_2
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/basic-equation-practice/e/linear_equations_3
Look into Next Year’s Algebra Exam• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/
solutions-linear-equations/e/solutions-to-linear-equations
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra-basics/alg-basics-algebraic-expressions/alg-basics-distributive-property/e/distributive-property-with-variables
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math/cc-7th-variables-expressions/cc-7th-manipulating-expressions/e/combining_like_terms_2
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/complicated_equations/e/multistep_equations_with_distribution
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra-basics/quadratics-polynomials-topic/multiplying-binomials-core-algebra/e/multiplying_expressions_0.5
Coordinate GeometryGraphing Points:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/algebra-functions/e/graphing_points
Identifying Points:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/algebra-functions/e/identifying_points_1
Naming Quadrants:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/linear-equations-and-inequalitie/
coordinate-plane/e/graphing_points_2
Plugging in Values:• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/equation-of-a-line/e/plugging_in_values
Identifying Slope:• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-linear-equations-
functions/8th-slope/e/slope-from-a-graph
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-linear-equations-functions/8th-slope/e/slope-from-an-equation-in-slope-intercept-form
Points on a straight line
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/linear-equations-and-inequalitie/graphing_solutions2/e/identifying_points_2
Section C - graphing straight lines
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/linear-equations-and-inequalitie/graphing_solutions2/e/plugging_in_values
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra-basics/core-algebra-graphing-lines-slope/core-algebra-graphing-slope-intercept/e/graph-from-slope-intercept-equation
Next year’s Coordinate Geometry Unit:
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-geometry-topic/cc-6th-coordinate-plane/e/reflecting-points
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/linear-equations-and-inequalitie/graphing_with_intercepts/e/solving_for_the_x-intercept
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra-basics/core-algebra-graphing-lines-slope/core-algebra-equation-of-a-line/v/finding-y-intercept-given-slope-and-point
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-relationships-functions/cc-8th-graphing-prop-rel/e/comparing-proportional-relationships
Statistics• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-data-statistics/cc-6th-
bar-charts/e/creating_bar_charts_1
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-data-statistics/cc-6th-bar-charts/e/reading_bar_charts_2
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-data-statistics/cc-6th-line-picto-graphs/e/reading_pictographs_2
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics/e/mean_median_and_mode
Probability
• http://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/independent-dependent-probability/basic_probability/e/probability_1
Look into next year Probability:
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math/cc-7th-probability-statistics/cc-7th-compound-events/e/sample-spaces-for-compound-events
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/precalculus/prob-comb/compound-probability-of-ind-events-using-mult-rule/e/independent_probability
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/independent-dependent-probability/addition-rule-probability/e/adding-probability