Summer Learning Activities for CAST Students entering 7 th grade 2017-2018 Dear Parents and Students, The days of summer go by fast and the first day of school will be here before you know it. This Summer Learning Activity packet will help your child keep an inquisitive mind over the summer and be ready for school in August! There are 3 activities included to complete. This packet will be due when we return to school. You can turn it to any of your teachers the first week of school, or your first block teacher by Friday August 18, 2017. They will count as your first assignments for Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts. In addition, we encourage you to read daily over the summer. Your local libraries are full of books to choose from in a variety of interests. We have included a list to choose from as well. On our school website, under Quick Links on the right, there is a link to reading resources the district has made available for students over the summer. Have a fun summer! See you in August! Student Name:
Solar Eclipse, August 21st, 2017 An August solar eclipse will sweep across the United States and offer an unusual number of Americans the chance to see a total solar eclipse. Total solar eclipses typically occur every year or two, but many of them don t come across North America, with the viewing path being over water, desert, or other remote places that make it hard to view. 1. Research and draw a model of a solar eclipse (use colors, on a separate piece of paper). 2. Research and draw a model of a lunar eclipse (use colors, on a separate piece of paper). 3. What phase must the moon be in for a total solar eclipse to occur? 4. Why don t we have an eclipse at every new and full moon? 5. Why can a large area of the Earth view a lunar eclipse while only a small portion can see a total solar eclipse? 4. Where in the United States will you be able to see this total solar eclipse? 5. How much of the solar eclipse is visible to you in Florida?
6. Solar eclipses are predictable, when will Florida see a total solar eclipse? 7. When is the next lunar eclipse visible from Florida? 10. If you could take a trip to view the solar eclipse this summer, where would you go? Describe your trip and why you chose that location. (Answer must be in paragraph form. Include dates, times and specific location details for observing. )
Explore around the world! Pick a line of latitude and use a globe to trace that line in a full circle. Make a list of the countries and other important features, such as mountain ranges, bodies of water or deserts, which the line of latitude passes through. If you don't have a globe, use the NatGeo MapMaker Interactive to do this project online. Line of Latitude (can be a number other than a multiple of 10!): Countries Important Geographic Features Describe the similarities and differences between these countries and features, in complete sentences.
Summer Reading 2017 Keep your skills sharp and keep the boredom away by READING this summer! The public library has special programming for teens in addition to lots of great books. Be sure to check it out! Assignment: Students are required to read at least 1 book over the summer and respond to the questions on the following page. Here are the titles to choose from, recommended for middle school students: Sunshine State Books 2017-18 Courage for Beginners by Karen Harrington Framed! by James Ponti The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill How to (Almost) Ruin Your Summer by Taryn Souders It Ain t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson Moving Target by Christina Diaz Gonzalez The Nerdy Dozen by Jeff Miller The Nest by Kenneth Oppel Omega City by Diana Peterfreund Randoms by David Liss Shadows of Sherwood by Kekla Magoon Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt Key The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Non-fiction award winners Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg and Kevin O Malley Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice Phillip Hoose Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, written by Phillip Hoose Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War by Allen Thomas Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally Walker Breakthrough by Jack Andraka with Matthew Lysiak Radioactive! How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World by Winifred Conkling More great reads in fiction! The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly Me & Miranda Mullaly by Jake Gerhardt The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Enzenberger Booked by Kwame Alexander The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty Flush by Carl Hiaasen Tesla s Attic by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman Masterminds by Gordon Korman Ship Breaker by Bacigalupi, Paolo Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Jacobson A Higher Geometry by Sharelle Byars Moranville Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson Beetle Boy by M. G. Leonard The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare The Angel Experiment by James Patterson Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel by Megan Morrison
Summer Reading Book Review Name: Book Title: Author: Answer each question with complete sentences! 1. Where and when does the story take place? Describe the major setting throughout the story. 2. How does the main character change throughout the story? 3. Why do you think he/she changed in this way? 4. Describe the main character of the story.
5. What is the main problem (conflict) this character is facing? 6. How does he/she solve this problem by the conclusion of the story? 7. What is the theme of the story? Describe why you think this. Theme is the message about life that the author wants you to take away from reading the book.