English/Language Arts and Social Studies
Resources have been updated for Summer 2019.
*Please know that some of these resources require teacher/student log in.*
6th Grade
Five Elements of a Story - Video
Practice grammar with Grammar Blast
Brush up on your geography skills and learn factual information about our world and where things are.
The 7 Continents and Oceans of the World
Four Level Analysis Grammar-Resource will be used in 6th Grade ELA
At the beginning of the school year, all students will participate in a Summer Reading Celebration.
6th Grade Students Summer Reading
New Kid - Jerry Craft
Middle Grade --- Graphic Novel --- Realistic Fiction
7th grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons. But instead of sending him to art school, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade.
As he makes the daily trip to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?
At the beginning of the school year,
all students will participate in a Summer Reading Celebration.
Summer Reading List 2018
7 & 8th Grade Students
Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes
Middle Grade --- Historical Fiction
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that’s been unleashed on his family and community.
Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life.
Shark Girl - Kelly Bingham
Middle Grade --- Memoir
On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything -- absolutely everything -- changed. Now she's counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm, where she knows kids will whisper, "That's her -- that's Shark Girl," as she passes. In the meantime there are only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her art? What about her life?
When - Laurie Victoria
Young Adult --- Paranormal/Thriller
Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. These mysterious digits are actually death dates, and just like birthdays, everyone has one.
Forced by her mother to use her ability to make extra money, Maddie identifies the quickly approaching death date of one client's young son., When the boy goes missing on that exact date, law enforcement turns to Maddie.
Refugee - Alan Gratz
Middle Grade --- Historical Fiction
Three different kids. One mission in common: ESCAPE.
Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015.
All three young people will go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers–from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But for each of them, there is always the hope of tomorrow.
Guys Read: Heroes and Villains - Jon Scieszka
Middle Grade --- Short Stories
Heroes and Villains, the seventh volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, is chock-full of adventure featuring an array of characters--with and without capes.
Featuring ten all-new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to comics to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, and featuring eleven of the most acclaimed, exciting writers for kids working today, this collection is the perfect book for you, whether you use your powers for good--or evil.
The Benefits of Being an Octopus - Ann Braden
Middle Grade --- Realistic Fiction
Seventh-grader Zoey has her hands full as she takes care of her much younger siblings after school every day. Not that her mom seems to appreciate it.
At school, Zoey tries to stay under the radar. She thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus: eight arms to do eight things at once.
Unfortunately, she’s not totally invisible, and one of her teachers forces her to join the debate club.. Can Zoey find the courage to speak up, even if it means risking the most stable home she’s ever had?
Genius: The Game - Leopoldo Gout
Young Adult --- Science Fiction/Thriller
The Game: Get ready for Zero Hour as 200 geniuses from around the world go head to head in a competition hand-devised by India's youngest CEO and visionary.
Rex- 16-year-old Mexican-American determined to find his missing brother. Tunde- 14-year-old self-taught engineering genius who has drawn the attention of a ruthless military warlord. Painted Wolf- 6-year-old is being pulled into the spotlight by her father's new deal with a corrupt Chinese official.
The Stakes: Are higher than you can imagine. Like life and death. Welcome to the revolution. And get ready to run.
Forget Me Not - Ellie Terry
Middle Grade --- Novel in Verse --- Realistic Fiction
Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize. Only Calli's neighbor, sees her as she truly is—an interesting person and a good friend. But is he brave enough to take their friendship public?
As Calli navigates school, she must also face her mother's new relationship and the fact that she might be moving, again, just as she starts to make friends and finally accept her differences.
Lowriders in Space - Cathy Camper & Raul the Third
Middle Grade --- Graphic Novel -- Fantasy/Adventure
Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria love working with cars. But the team's favorite cars of all are lowriders—cars that hip and hop, dip and drop, go low and slow, bajito y suavecito. The stars align when a contest for the best car around offers a prize of a trunkful of cash—just what the team needs to open their own shop! What will it take to transform a junker into the best car in the universe?
Maus - Art Spiegelman
Young Adult --- Graphic Novel --- Historical Fiction
The complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. The author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival of the Holocaust - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents.
Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon
Young Adult --- Realistic Fiction --- Romance
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him.
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Him. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.