ELA Summer Scholars Work. Upcoming 7 th Graders. Reading

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1 ELA Summer Scholars Work Upcoming 7 th Graders Reading You will have access to IXL over the summer. Please practice ELA skills under the I tab for thirty minutes a week. If you know that you are weak in an area, focus on that. Please complete pages and in the Close Reader notebook. Keep a reading log (it can be on notebook paper) of what you are reading. Read books within your Lexile level. At the end of each week, give a brief (two-three sentences) reflection about what you have read, covering basic plot and character development. Do frequent comprehension checks to make sure you understand what you are reading! After every book you finish, complete the following story map:

2 Summer Scholar Program 7 th grade Mathematics All students must know multiplication facts In addition to this, they need to master all operations with decimals and fractions as a prerequisite for success in 7 th grade mathematics. The following assignments are being given so that students can practice these skills. All assignments will be done on IXL.com. Students should be able to receive a smart score of 75 or more for each skill. Decimals 6 th grade F.2, F.3, F.4, F.5, F.7 Adding and Subtracting Decimals 6 th grade - G.1 Multiplying and Dividing Decimals 6 th grade - H.2, H.4, H.6, H.7 Fractions and Mixed Numbers 6 th grade -I.1, I.3, I.4, I.6, I.7, I.9, I.10, I.11 Adding and Subtracting Fractions 6 th grade - J.1, J.2, J.3, J.4, J.6, J.7, J.9 Multliplying Fractions 6 th grade - K.1, K.2, K.3, K.5, K.6, K.7, K.8, K.10, K.11, K.12, K.13 Dividing Fractions 6 th grade - L.2, L.3, L.5, L.7, L.8 Integers (OPTIONAL) 6 th grade - M.1, M.2, M.3, M.4, M.5, M.6

3 Government Go to Mrs. Giardina s GSIC website and review the government vocabulary PowerPoint. For each pair of statements, decide which describes an autocracy (A) and which describes a democracy (D). Who holds the power? The people (citizens) hold power. One leader holds power. Citizens Rights Citizens have limited rights/freedoms. Citizens rights/freedoms are protected by law. Citizen Participation Citizens have little choice in who leads the government. Citizens vote to elect leaders. Citizens have many opportunities to participate in government. Citizens have few/no opportunities to participate in government. Based on the descriptions, decide whether each country is autocratic (A) or democratic (D). Saudi Arabia is ruled by a king. When the king dies, power passes to his son. In Turkey, citizens vote for the president. South Korea s constitution guarantees basic freedoms of the press, speech, and religion. North Korea s citizens have no ability to influence their government. In China, people vote, but the candidates all belong to the Communist Party. South Africa s citizens participate in government by voting, running for office, and expressing their opinions. Decide whether the statement describes a parliamentary or presidential democracy. You can check both boxes. Parliamentary/Presidential Citizens elect the chief executive. Citizens elect members of the legislature. The chief executive is appointed by the legislature. The executive and legislative branches are fused together. The executive and legislative branches are separate.

4 Citizens have rights and freedoms Citizens elect officials to represent them in government. Economics Go to Mrs. Giardina s GSIC website and review the economics PowerPoint. Decide whether the statements describe a market (M) or command (C) economy. The national government controls the country s natural resources. Private companies are able to buy natural resources and set their own prices. Companies hire more workers because the government will pay their salaries. Companies lay off workers because their sales have declined. Decide which trade barrier is described in each statement. Write T for tariff, Q for quota, or E for embargo. Company XYZ produces cheese, which costs $100 per pound, in Scotland and exports it to the USA. A 20% tax would require Company XYZ to pay the US government $20 to export the cheese. Mexico imposed a limit of 250,000 tons of sugar that could be imported into Mexico. In 1962, the United States prohibited all imports and exports to and from Cuba. In 2006, the United Nations Security Council restricted the export to and the import from Iran on certain items and technology potentially related to nuclear weapons. In 2010, China announced an import tax on American poultry of up 105.4%. In 2005, the United States limited the imports of Chinese textiles to 7.5% a year. In 2012, the US Commerce Department imposed a tax on Chinese made solar panels. In 1990, the Japanese government extended its limit on automobile exports to the USA. In 2011, the US Department of Agriculture increased its annual sugar-import limit to 1.6 million tons for the year. In 2006, the United Nations passed a Resolution that prohibits states from supplying North Korea with conventional weapons (battle tanks, artillery, aircraft, missiles, etc.)

5 ACROSS 4 factories, machines, and technology used to produce goods 6 person who risks his or her own money to create a new product or business 9 type of economy all countries have 12 process of exchanging one country's money for another's 15 economic decisions are made by the government 16 percentage of people who can read and write 18 Saudi Arabia specializes in it DOWN 1 limit on the number of foreign-made goods allowed into a country 2 countries produce what they can make most efficiently and trade for everything else they need 3 economic decisions are made by custom or habit 5 anything that slows or stops trade 7 knowledge and skills of workers 8 total value of all goods and services produced by a country in a year 10 group of oil-producing nations which seeks to control the price of oil on the world market 11 Israel specializes in it 13 economic decisions are made by individuals and businesses 14 a ban on trade with another country 17 tax on imported goods Video Questions Arabs 1. What are Arabs? 2. What religion do most Arabs practice? 3. What did Arab civilization develop? 4. What is the Arab League? Kurds 1. Who are the Kurds? 2. Where do they live?

6 3. What religion do most Kurds practice? 4. What language do Kurds speak? 5. What has happened to Kurds in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq? 6. What did Saddam Hussein use to attack the Kurds? Ottoman Empire 1. What was the Ottoman Empire? 2. Who was Osman I? 3. When did the empire end? 4. Who was Suleiman I? 5. Why did the empire start to decline/weaken?

7 6. Why was the empire dissolved? 7. What did dividing the empire lead to? The Ganges 1. What is the Ganges? 2. Why is the Ganges important? 3. Why do people bathe in the Ganges? 4. What pollutes the Ganges? Huang He LHDVGwlwYc 1. What is the Huang He? 2. Why is it called the Yellow River? 3. Why is it called China s Sorrow? 4. What are dams used for? 5. How have the Chinese tried to stop flooding?

8 Gandhi 1. What did Gandhi do when he was 13? 2. What did Gandhi study? 3. Where did Gandhi find a job? 4. What kind of protest did Gandhi use? 5. What did Gandhi protest against in India? 6. What does Mahatma mean? 7. Who did Gandhi influence? 8. How did Gandhi die? Mao Zedong 1. Who was Mao Zedong? 2. What did Mao believe about the Chinese Revolution? 3. Who was Chiang kai-shek? 4. What happened in 1949?

9 5. How did Mao create a personality cult? 6. What were Red Guards? 7. How many Chinese people died from famine? The Great Leap Forward 1. What was the Great Leap Forward? 2. What were Mao s goals in the Great Leap Forward? 3. What did Mao expect rural people to do? 4. What were the problems caused by the Great Leap Forward? 5. What other disasters caused problems during the Great Leap Forward? 6. What was the death toll? Cultural Revolution 1. What was the Cultural Revolution?

10 2. What was the purpose of the Cultural Revolution? 3. What was the other objective of the Cultural Revolution? 4. What did the Cultural Revolution cause? 5. What did Mao do with schools? 6. What were the Red Guards encourage to do? 7. What did the Red Guards destroy? 8. What problems did the Cultural Revolution cause? 9. How many people did the Red Guards kill? 10. What finally ended the Cultural Revolution? Sahel

11 1. What is the Sahel? 2. What kind of vegetation does the Sahel have? 3. What kind of agriculture occurs in the Sahel? 4. What happened in the Sahel in the late 20 th century? 5. What happened as a result of droughts in the 1970 s and 1980 s? African Savanna 1. What is the savanna? 2. When is the rainy period? 3. What kinds of plants are in the savanna? 4. What has extended into the savanna since the 1960 s? 5. How have dams had both a positive and a negative impact?

12 Ashanti 1. Where do the Ashanti live? 2. What language do they speak? 3. Describe the Ashanti religion. 4. Who colonized Ashanti land? 5. What are the Ashanti famous for? Bantu 1. Where are the Bantu found? 2. What two religions have influenced traditional Bantu religion? 3. How did Bantu slaves influence culture in North America? F.W. de Klerk 1. Who is F.W. de Klerk? 2. What was apartheid?

13 3. Who could vote for de Klerk in 1989? 4. What did de Klerk do in 1990? 5. What happened in 1991? 6. What happened in 1993?