Curso de preparación completo para el SHSAT (lectura, gramática, matemáticas)

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This class is an ongoing preparatory course for the SHSAT test

CLASS STRUCTURE

This class is ongoing. Students can enter and leave at any time. Topics do not build. I encourage all new learners and/or parents to message me with some information/learning goals for the student. I am also happy to send the previous week's homework.

There is an optional homework assignment scheduled after every class in which I will provide feedback or a key.


During each 55 minute lesson, students will practice reading, grammar/editing/revising, and math skills. All content is directly applicable to these specific tests. Guidelines, tips, and tricks are also covered as well.

MISSED CLASSES
If your student misses a class, a recording will always be accessible on the classroom page. The Google Slides notes are always available as well. The weekly assignments will also be posted for the student. 

Note: If your student is not able to attend in person, refunds will not be issued. This is because the student can still access the materials, recording, and receive grades for assignments. If you need to miss a class or several and do not want to be billed, you can pause your subscription.

CLASS SCHEDULE
1. Welcome/Go over schedule
2. Reading Passages and Skills
3. Grammar Topic and Editing Practice
4. Math Practice
5. Intro to homework

TOPICS

Each week, a variety of topics from the following list will be covered:

7th grade content: 7th: time, mean, rates, proportions and ratios, slope, linear equations, rational numbers, perimeter, area, volume, circumference, "percent" problems including discounts/taxes/etc, counting, fractions, decimals (including repeating), geometrically similar objects and their scaling, number line including scaling and negative units, absolute value, adding and subtracting involving negative and positives, algebra involving one variable of various sorts, rules and truisms involving intersecting lines, circles/triangles/
quadrilaterals/polygons/cubes/right prisms, angles and their sums/interior/exterior/within
polygons, parallel lines, population inferences and X-way tables, word problems, multistep solutions, chance and probability including factorials, from lists and data sets,
unit conversions, parallelogram, trapezoid, octagon, rectangle, square, order of
operations, numeric patterns, prime number, prime factorization, factors, GCF, LCM, mixed
fractions, fraction ordering, conversion to/from decimals/fractions

8th: graphing/slope/intercept/distance, outliers, number line, FOIL, solving linear
equations, inequalities, shaded regions, using functions including comparing/rate of
change/interpreting/input/output, geometric similarity and congruence, Pythagorean
Theorem, right triangles, translations/rotations/reflections/dilations/clockwise/
counterclockwise/90/180/270, more slope/coordinates/grids/distances, more cones/cylinders/spheres/volume, radical numbers, exponents, square and cube roots, scientific and decimal notations and conversions thereof, percent involving interest

Students are also expected to do out of the box thinking to address "novel situations."


Summer SEMESTER

Week of 6/10: Intro to Tests Styles and Topics (Testing Tip, Vocabulary Topic 1, Narrative Reading Passages, Punctuation Part 1, mean, median, mode, number sense part 1

Week of 6/17: Persuasive Reading Passages, Main Idea, Strong Arguments, Editing, Punctuation Part 2, mean, median, mode, number sense part 2

Week of 6/24: Descriptive Reading Passages, Inferences, Verb Agreement, Geometry Topics Part 1

Week of 7/2: Expository Reading Passages, Author Purpose, Verb Agreement Part 2, Geometry Topics Part 2

Week of 7/9: Poetry Reading Passages, Mixed Skills, Improving Sentences, Editing, Word Problems

Week of 7/16: Mixed Reading Passages, Mixed Skills, Strong Verbs and Adjectives, Graphs and Data