Holiday Homework Grade 7 (Math, English, Science) · PDF filetrue identity as a demi-god and discovers a secret world where the characters of Greek mythology actually exist. 39 Clues

Holiday Homework – Grade 7

(Math, English, Science)

Math:

Click on the following links to practice topics done over the year in grade 6.

https://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/math/ (Download the paper based tests)

http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/6th-grade/em-at-home/ (click on study link help)

http://www.nelson.com/mathfocus/grade6/student/tryout.html#ch3 (self-check your answers)

http://chss.sd57.bc.ca/~spearce/Math_8/practice%20tests/chapter%201.htm

Create a word document & compile your scores. Submit the word document to your respective math

teacher once you return on 1st August 2016.

English: Summer Reading assignments

Task 1: Use a computer to visit www.merriam-webster.com, an online dictionary. Click on the “Quizzes and

Games” tab to investigate their Vocabulary Quiz, Name That Thing, Spell It, and True Or False. Next, click

on Merriam-Webster’s “Video” tab. There are several short explanations, whimsical stories, and

interesting trivia points to learn from the editors. Two weeks before school starts, visit this site for 15

minutes every other day. Create a chart that categorizes and logs what you did during each visit, and

have one of your parent’s sign that you completed your 15 minute sessions each week. Follow this

example:

Activity Lesson Summary Parent

10 min vocab quiz, 2 videos I took 5 vocab quizzes and scored 4360 points! I learned

about Schwa and Okay.

Signature

TASK 2:

Directions:

Select two books to read over the summer. You may select from the titles provided. You will be

responsible for completing four reading activities each. Be sure to choose two activities from column A –

Fiction and two from column B – Non Fiction for a total of four assignments.

The summer project is due on August 1st 2016.

FICTION READING ACTIVITIES

Column A: Choose one activity from this column. Column B: Choose one activity from this column

STORY ELEMENT CEREAL BOX

Design a cereal box that reflects the story elements

(character, setting, problem, solution) with the novel.

WHERE IN THE BOOK

Draw a map to the place your character travelled.

Be sure to label and explain where each of the

important events took place.

NOVEL PLAYLIST

Produce a playlist of at least 5 musical selections that reflect any of the following and briefly explain why you choose the song and how it connects to your novel.

• Theme

• Main idea

• Author’s purpose/perspective

Character’s life

INSIDE/OUT CHARACTER STUDY

Identify and discuss the external and internal

attributes in a character that you have chosen.

Discuss how these attributes affect the decisions

that the character makes throughout the novel.

SCRAPBOOKING

Create a scrapbook page of a theme found within the novel. Write a brief description

/explanation of the page

FAKEBOOK PAGE

Create a Facebook page for the main character. Include the groups the character would join, provide three status updates, identify 5 people the character would choose as friends and justify your choices for the characters with a brief explanation

AROUND THE BOOK

Design a travel brochure that reflects the setting in your or novel. Be sure to include details about the setting.

NAME THAT CHARACTER

Identify five characters and provide personality

descriptions for each character.

PLOT SUMMARY

Write a one page plot summary of the novel.

CHANGE THE ENDING

Write a one page different ending to your novel.

NON - FICTION READING ACTIVITIES

Column A: Choose one activity from this column. Column B: Choose one activity from this column

CREATE A FLYER

Make a flyer with interesting information about your topic. The flyer will include at least four types of text features as well as some narrative text written by you. It must also include drawings and or other decorations. Be creative! No computer printout art allowed on this project.

TEXT FEATURE CEREAL BOX

Design a cereal box that reflects the text features from your book. Text features may include:

• Captions

• Bold text

• Photographs

• Table of contents • glossary

NON-FICTION PLAYLIST

Produce a playlist of at least 5 musical selections that reflect any of the following and briefly explain why you choose the song and how it connects to your novel.

• Theme

• Main idea

• Author’s purpose/perspective

• Character’s life

COMIC STRIP

Create a one- to three-page comic strip about your

theme. Comic must be drawn by you, not computer

generated. This project must be done in pen or a

dark marker– no pencil. Comics need to include

nonfiction facts about your theme, and three other

text features of your choice.

POINT OF VIEW

Write a letter to the editor of newspaper (real or

fictional) as the main character/subject of your book.

What issue does your subject feel most strongly

about? How can you re-create the voice of your main

subject? This letter should express what is most

interesting about the book that you read.

FAKEBOOK PAGE

Create a Facebook page for the main character. Include the groups the character would join, provide three status updates, identify 5 people the character would choose as friends and justify your choices for the characters with a brief explanation

SCRAPBOOKING

Create a scrapbook page of something that you have learned and would teach to someone else. Write a

brief description to support your work.

CALLING ALL TALK HOSTS

Type a one to two page fictitious interview with the author or a major personality from the book which reveals and extends the important information in the book. Provide full, rich, and complete responses.

HOW TO DO

Design a “How to Guide that discusses the major

highlights from the book you have chosen

INFORMATION CENTRAL

Create an informational brochure that highlights

the big ideas from the text that you have selected.

Please choose two books from the choices below.

Novel Description

FICTION - MYSTERY

The Westing Game The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

There’s a Dead Person Following My Sister

Around

Eleven-year-old Ted thinks the most dangerous thing he has to

worry about is his older brother, Zach. Then Ted's five-year-old

sister, Vicky, begins talking about her friend, Marella, whom no

one else can see. While at first Ted believes there's nothing

unusual about Vicky's imaginary friend, he soon notices that

Vicky is having nightmares and talking about a "bad lady." Then

Ted begins to share Vicky's nightmares. Soon Ted finds himself

on a quest to discover the cause of strange happenings around

the house. Along the way, Ted learns about the real-life

nightmare of slavery and the nineteenth-century slave laws of

New York State.

Sammy Keyes and The Hotel Thief Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.

Malice Everyone's heard of it...but nobody's read it. Luke, Seth, and Kady have heard all the stories about Malice--a secret comic about a strange, awful world full of tricks and traps, and overseen by a sinister master of ceremonies, Tall Jake. But if the rumours are to be believed, the children in this comic are real...Luke is the first to fall into this trap--and Seth and Kady are the next to follow. They have left our world and entered the sinister comic book. The question is--can they make it out alive?

FICTION - SERIES

Shadow Children In a futuristic and over-populated Earth, the government limits families to two children. Any "shadow child," a child born after the first two children in a family, is either killed or imprisoned by the Population Police. Luke Garner, a shadow child living under an assumed identity, joins with other shadow children in the effort to overthrow the Population Police in this gripping science fiction series.

Percy Jackson Percy Jackson is an adolescent boy who struggles with dyslexia

and ADHD. Percy's life is changed forever when he learns his

true identity as a demi-god and discovers a secret world where

the characters of Greek mythology actually exist.

39 Clues

The Cahills are the most powerful family the world has ever known. 39 Clues hidden around the world guard the family's power. It's Cahill versus Cahill in a worldwide race to find the Clues and beat the competition.

Candy Apple A fun series for girls about life, love, and friendship

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Middle school student Greg Heffley takes readers through an academic year's worth of drama. Greg's mother forces him to keep a diary and in it he loosely recounts each day's events, interspersed with his comic illustrations.

Rapunzel’s Revenge Using her long, braided hair as a lasso, Rapunzel teams up with a wild outlaw named Jack and heads west to start a brand new life filled with grand adventures and crazy characters in this colorful graphic novel

Nancy Drew Nancy Drew goes hip in these graphic novels that feature many subtle tributes to classic Nancy Drew adventures.

Hardy Boys

The Hardy Boys go hip in these graphic novels that feature many subtle tributes to classic Hardy Boys adventures.

Bone Bone and his cousins--Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone--go on wild adventures together where they meet and encounter the unexpected in this graphic novel series based on the comic books.

The Elsewhere Chronicles Upon the death of a neighborhood recluse, Max, Theo, and Noah meet the man and adopted granddaughter, Bec. In her grandfather effects, they find the means to travel to another world that's filled with strange plants and people and deadly shadow creatures.

HISTORICAL FICTION

The Brooklyn Nine Felix, Louis, Arnold, Walter, Frankie, Kat, Jimmy, Michael and Snide have two things in common: they all make up one distinctive family spanning nine generations, and they all love baseball. Alan Gratz takes us on a journey through their family history and the history of baseball in THE BROOKLYN NINE: A Novel in Nine Innings. Each inning tells the unique story of each family member and their equally unique connection to baseball. Everything from the Civil War to the All-American Girls Baseball League to Sputnik is included along with America’s favorite pastime --- baseball!

The Ever-After Bird CeCe McGill digs deep to find the strength to stand up for her

convictions when she travels South with her uncle. He’s

searching for the Ever-After Bird, a rare scarlet ibis, while CeCe

secretly helps slaves find their way to the Underground

Railroad.

The Rock and The River For thirteen-year-old Sam it's not easy being the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older (and best friend), Stick, begins to drift away from him for no apparent reason.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Based on a true story, Hiroshima-born Sadako is told that she has the "atom bomb disease," leukemia; thus she turns to her native beliefs by making a thousand paper cranes so the gods will grant her one wish to be well again.

REALISTIC FICTION

PS Longer Letter Later Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and TaraStarr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.

Because of Winn Dixie* Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in

the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that

happen to her because of her big, ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Maniac Magee* The classic award-winning story about a young boy who finds himself when he escapes an unbearable situation.

Misery Guts* Keith's parents, whom he calls "misery guts" because they are

so grim all of the time, run a failing fish-and-chips shop in

England. When all of his efforts to cheer them go for naught,

he tries to convince them to move to Australia, promoting it as

Paradise.

Earthquake Terror* When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially-paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.

Esperanza Rising Describes a thirteen-year-old Mexican girl's fall from riches, her immigration to California and her growing awareness of class and ethnic tensions.

Sahara Special Laugh-out-loud dialogue and unforgettable characters distinguish Codell's debut novel about a talented but troubled student and the inspiring teacher whose belief in her changes her life.

Al Capone Does My Shirts A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935, when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

HUMOR

The BFG

The BFG--Big Friendly Giant--kidnaps Sophie from her bed in

the orphanage and takes her back to Giantland where she

becomes involved in a scheme to end the loathsome activities

of nine evil giants.

Matilda Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school

of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and

restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

The Night I Flunked My Field Trip Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose

undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood

underachiever, this series is about the high-spirited and funny

adventures of a boy with learning differences

Sideways Stories from The Wayside School Thirty different stories describe the strange things that happen

at Wayside School, an architectural accident that was built

sideways, thirty stories high with one classroom on each floor.

The Teacher’s Funeral To Russell Culver, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they'll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam. No such luck.

SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY

A Wrinkle in Time* On a wild, stormy night, an unearthly visitor arrives at the

Wallace house.

Bridge to Terabithia* Jess copes with tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the

woods invented by newcomer Leslie Burke.

Tale of Despereaux Despereaux disappoints his family at every turn as a mouse

who cares not a whit for scurrying or nibbling. When he

discovers the phrase: "Once upon a time"--it is a discovery that

will change his life.

Satch and Me: A Baseball Adventure With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe, with radar gun in tow, takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.

The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered what Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went and Went There

Yggdrasil Birnbaum is determined to find out why all the ghosts

in early 1950s Los Angeles seem to be vanishing. Iggy and her

friends Neddie and Seamus, all of whom see and talk with the

city's numerous ghosts on a regular basis, visit Olvera Street,

Clifton's Cafeteria, and other famous spots to solve the

mystery, but it takes a visit to an alternate world called

Underland, filled with an assortment of curious characters, to

discover what those ghosts have been up to.

NON-FICTION

Out Of Darkness

A biography of the 19th-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

Woodsong

For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern

Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and

the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes

an account of the author's first Iditarod.

Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story Of

Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy

Recounts the story of the Canadian woman who disguised

herself as a man and slipped behind Confederate lines to

spy for the Union army.

Boys Who Rocked The World: From

King Tut To Tiger Woods

Featuring profiles of boy heroes around the world and throughout history including Elvis, Pablo Picasso, Tiger Woods, and King Tut, as well as lesser known heroes, an entertaining and fascinating guide shows boys how they can make an impact on today's world.

The Double Life Of Pocahontas

A biography of the famous American Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.

Three Cups Of Tea (Young Reader's

Edition)

This young readers edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present.

Bury The Dead: Tombs, Corpses,

Mummies, Skeletons, And Rituals

The latest scientific information shows young readers what archaeologists learn from studying the remains and graves of long-dead humans. Reveals how Neanderthals, ancient Egyptians, Maya, Sythians, and others buried their dead, then explains what those rituals meant to the living

Burp! The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever

Read About Eating Series: Mysterious You

Bold illustrations enhance this fact-filled book about the

human digestive system, explaining how food is broken

down, how sense and sight affect taste, and more.

Childtimes: A Three-Generation

Memoir

Childhood memoirs of three black women-grandmother, mother, and daughter--who grew up between the 1880s and the 1950s.

Scoring Rubric

Project Report Rubric

Outstanding

100 - 90

• Well written content that addresses all criteria

• All work demonstrates a complete understanding of the text, text support present and used correctly.

• All work shows thoughtfulness. Information is interesting and accurate, and is

presented so it can be easily understood.

• Very few errors in grammar, sentence construction, and mechanics

Proficient 89 - 80 • Well written content that addresses most criteria

• All or most work demonstrates a complete understanding of the text, sufficient text support present and used correctly.

• Most work shows thoughtfulness. Information is accurate, and is presented so it

can be easily understood.

• Few errors in grammar, sentence construction, and mechanics

Intermediate 79 - 70 • Average written content that addresses most/some criteria

• Work demonstrates some understanding of the text, some text support present and used correctly.

• Some work shows thoughtfulness. Information is accurate, and is presented so it

can be understood.

• Errors in grammar, sentence construction, and mechanics

Below

Proficient

69 and below

• Poorly written content that addresses little criteria

• Work demonstrates a weak understanding of the text, little or no text support present, that may be used correctly or incorrectly.

• Little or no work shows thoughtfulness. Work is confusing and difficult to

understand.

• Significant errors in grammar, sentence construction, and mechanics

Science

You are required to use the resources attached (power point and video link) with this task for

recapping the steps of Scientific method, selection of Problem Question and revisiting

experimental design.

From your observations of the natural world, come up with at least two inquiry questions you

would like to explore through this method.

Framing Inquiry Question

State each of these as “problem questions”.

A ‘problem question’ is a way to frame a problem so that we are clear up front on what we

are trying to solve, and what success will look like

A good problem statement must be

• Specific

• Measurable

• Action-oriented (there should be some scope of inquiry)

• Relevant (to the key problem)

• Time-bound

Each of these problem questions must be:

a single sentence with a question mark.

clear (no element of ambiguity)

there should be scope of inquiry using at least two different sources (it should not be

answered by simple internet research)

[Consider accepted sources of information as: experiment /survey/research/interview]

Framing Hypothesis

A hypothesis is a conditional statement that declares what we should find in our data if our

theory is correct. One form of a conditional statement:

If {...}, then {...}. If eg. X → Y

While framing hypothesis a relevant scientific language should be used

Variables

A variable is any factor, trait, or condition that can exist in differing

amounts or types.

Controlled variable is one that you want to remain the same throughout the experiment.

Independent variable is one that is changed in an experiment

Dependent Variable is the result of the experiment What is measured This “depends” on what you changed

For each of the questions selected, plan your experimental framework using the table below:

You will be completing the given table during vacations and same needs to be shared with your

science teacher in the first week of August.

Step 1: Problem

Question

Problem question 1: Problem question 2:

Step 2: Hypothesis

If ……then ……..because

Hypothesis 1 Hypothesis 2:

Step 3 : Experimental design Variable (with reason): Variable (with reason):

Dependent variable

Justification

Independent Variable

Justification

Constant Variable

Justification

Step 4: Data collection

(Steps of experiment )

Data collection Method

Data collection Method

Methods to be used to inquire into

problem question (data collection

Resources that will help you get started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmzq9M8knww (introduction to scientific method)

Attached PowerPoint Presentation (steps of scientific method)

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_variables.shtml#whatarevariables

(variables and examples)