Summer Suggestions: 6th - 7th Grade

Reading Goals:

• Independently read and comprehend sixth grade level fiction and nonfiction texts. Make logical inferences and predictions, based on evidence. 
• Cite text evidence to support what the text says explicitly, and inferences drawn from the text. 
• Use key ideas and details from the text to infer the main idea or central theme. 
• Understand and explain the point of view in a text. 
• Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics. 

Reading Summer Suggestions:

• Read every day! Continue to track the books you finish. How many different genres can you read in one summer?
• Set a goal for how many books you will read this summer. See how close you can get – or maybe you’ll even pass it!
• Go to the library weekly! (And join their Summer Reading Challenge!)
• Use your Newsela account (or create a new account) and read an article each week. Annotate the article for important details.

Writing Goals: 

• Determine and use the best or most relevant evidence from a text to support answers to text-based questions. Provide context for each piece of evidence. Connect evidence to answer to fully prove answer. (RACE) 
• Write informative, persuasive and argumentative essays that include an introduction, at least three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Identify a claim and strong reasons to support the claim. Use best or most relevant evidence from the text to support reasons. Explain how evidence supports claim and reasons.  
• Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events. Introduce characters and a clear plot sequence. Connect the characters and plot by effectively using dialogue and transition words. 

Writing Summer Suggestions:

• Create a journal and write about your summer
• Research a topic online and create a persuasive speech
• Practice your RACE responses using independent reading book

Social Studies Goals:

• Can apply the conventions of B.C.E., B.C. and A.D. to arrange an analyze events in chronological order.
• Can describe the influence of geography on the development of unique civilizations in India, Egypt, China, Mesopotamia. 
• Can describe the governments, cultures, economic systems, technologies, and agricultural practices and products of early civilizations and their enduring influence in the Eastern Hemisphere today.
• Can use appropriate maps, globes, and geographic tools to gather, process and report information about people, places, and environments.
• Can use various criteria to describe, classify and compare regions within the Eastern Hemisphere.
• Can explain how individuals and societies answer the fundamental questions of economics of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce. 

Social Studies Summer Suggestions:

• Stay up to date on current events.  Challenge yourself to find connections between what we have studied and what is going on around the world. 
• When going on a road trip, become the navigator.  Use a paper map and your map reading skills to navigate the directions for the driver. 
• Visit www.studiesweekly.com or kids.nationalgeographic.com for videos, games, articles and more. 

Religion Goals:

• Describe Mary as the ‘Mother of God’.
• Identify those who made covenants with God in the Old Testament.
• Define the importance of the Eucharistic Liturgy.
• Define the Theological Virtues.
• Create a personal prayer including praise, petition, thanksgiving and adoration.
• Identify how the Holy Spirit works in the lives of God’s people.
• Explain the 7 Catholic Social Teachings.
• Explain what it means to be ‘Made in the Image and Likeness of God’.

Religion Summer Suggestions:

• Continue to attend Sunday mass with your family.  If you are going on vacation out of town, find a local church to attend.  See how we are all connected by the similarities of Mass and sharing in the Eucharist. 
• Use the "Sunday's Word" book to follow along during the readings.  Instead of a "Mass Reflection," talk to your family about the readings.  What were they? What was their meaning or purpose? How did they speak to you?
• Look for opportunities to live your faith.  While traveling or just meeting new people over the summer, how can you present yourself as Christ-like.    Do you see opportunities for stewardship?

Math Goals:

• Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems
• Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions
• Compute fluency with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples
• Apply and extend previous understanding of arithmetic to algebraic expressions
• Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities
• Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables
• Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume

Math summer suggestions:

• Work on either Summer Solutions Common Core Math Level 6 or Summer Solutions Original Mathematics Intermediate B.
• Find a booklet with fun math puzzles. For example, a workbook with sudoku puzzles.
• Find ways to incorporate math into daily errands. For example, comparing unit price at a grocery store.

Science Goals:

• Evaluate how living systems at all levels or organizations demonstrate the nature of structure and function
• Igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks form in different ways.
• Identify and classify Igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks based on their unique characteristics
• Use appropriate mathematics, tools and techniques to gather data and information.

Science summer suggestions:

• Visit a nature center and learn about the environment and habitat around you.
• Find experiments that would be fun and affordable. For example, making slime or creating the lowest impact contraption for dropping an egg.
• Watch a Planet Earth Episode (they are on Netflix and at the library).
• Plant a garden in your yard and keep notes on the process by which things grow. Compare the rate at which your plants grow compared to the estimated time on the back of the seed packet.