Seventh Grade Summer Homework

Class of 2014 and family,

Your homework this summer is to seriously think about what high school you wish to attend. Visit schools, look at their webpages, talk to people who you know who have attended these schools. Catholic high schools are very expensive and great public high schools are very competitive.

Do not apply to a school you are 100% sure you do not want to attend. If you apply, it may be your only offer. This is especially the case for public high schools. 

If you list  Franklin K. Lane High School, Townsend Harris High School, Benjamin Cardozo High School and Bayside High School in that order, you are more likely to get into Lane. Once you are matched, the program stops.

Also, if your average is 80, it is not likely that you will get a seat at Townsend Harris, that school has very high standards (Second Honors or above).

There is lots of information about high school testing and preparation at here.

Good luck and if you have any questions, feel free to email me using the information on the right of this page.

Mr. Hartmann

Trim 3 Week 13

Grade 7

Any homework assigned this month should be put in the folder by Tuesday.

Seventh Grade Social Studies Final

Choose one essay to write: Four Paragraph Hamburger essays

1. Identify and thoroughly explain two factors that caused the Northern and Southern regions to grow apart during the antebellum period of American History (1820-1860). Clarify your general factors with at least two specific examples.

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2. The Union decisively defeated the Confederacy in "The War of Secession." Identify and thoroughly explain two general factors that caused the Union's victory. Clarify your general factors with at least two specific examples.

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Grade 7

Due Wednesday: Read Pages 474-479 and 480-487

Identify content vocabulary, academic vocabulary, Key People and Events in your Social Studies notebook. Do not put these on loose leaf.

Answer Section Review 2 - 7 on page 479 and 2 - 8 on 487 in complete sentences on loose leaf.

Due Thursday: Read Pages 490-497

Identify content vocabulary, academic vocabulary, Key People and Events in your Social Studies notebook. Do not put these on loose leaf.

Answer Section Review 2-7 on page 497 in complete sentences on loose leaf.

Due Friday:  Read Pages 498-505

Identify content vocabulary, academic vocabulary, Key People and Events in your Social Studies notebook. Do not put these on loose leaf.

Answer Section Review 2-8 on page 505 in complete sentences on loose leaf.

Due Monday: Read Pages 506-512

Identify content vocabulary, academic vocabulary, Key People and Events in your Social Studies notebook. Do not put these on loose leaf.

Answer Section Review 2-7 on page 512 in complete sentences on loose leaf.