Mrs. Angela M. Bento, Principal
[email protected]
Mrs. Bernetha Jackson, Secretary
[email protected]
Ms. Jeraldine Salazar, Secretary
[email protected]
Plainfield Academy for the Arts and Advanced Studies
1700 W. Front Street at Rock Avenue
Plainfield, NJ 07063
(908) 731-4421
June 25, 2013
Dear PAAAS Student and Parents:
It is our hope that you will enjoy your summer. Many of you will be going on exciting
vacations, visiting relatives, or relaxing at home. These are all opportunities to reflect and be
grateful for the gifts we have.
We, at PAAAS, are very busy preparing for your arrival on September 5, 2013. We are
extremely excited and eager to meet all NEW incoming students on August 23, 2013 for
student orientation.
Please organize, plan and complete all assignments. All summer work is DUE the first two
days of school and will be a first marking period grade.
In addition to these assignments, this packet contains important dates to remember and
uniform information. There are NO hoodies, shorts, sandals, capri’s, hats or skinny pants
allowed; for these are not part of our approved uniform. Students must be in regulation
uniforms at all times.
We wish you a safe and happy summer vacation.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Angela Bento, Principal and the Entire PAAAS Faculty and Staff
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Save the Dates
August 22, 2013
Parent Information Session
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
August 23, 2013
Student Orientation
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Students are to be dropped off in the back parking lot facing Rock Avenue.
Uniforms
All students will be wearing Khaki pants and a blue or green polo with black or
brown shoes. No baggy pants will be allowed and shirts must be tucked in.
Upperclassmen may wear a solid button down shirt with a tie.
7th & 8th Grade Polo Shirts: BLUE ONLY
9th, 10th, 11th, & 12th Grade Polo Shirts: HUNTER GREEN ONLY
Upon researching uniform pricing, we found that JC Penney had the most
economical prices. You DO NOT have to buy from JC Penney.
The color scheme is as follows:
Girls IZOD® Flat Front Pants
Boys Arizona Uniform Khaki
Girls IZOD® Short Sleeve Polo Shirt
Boys Arizona Pique Polo
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 9th GRADE SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS
READING
Assignments – Rising 9th Graders
 Read the two required fiction books on your grade level list and complete
Assignment A for one book and Assignment B for the other.
 Do Assignment C for the non-fiction book.
All assignments are to be either handwritten in blue or black ink on composition
paper OR word processed, double-spaced, Arial font, size 12.
PLEASE NOTE:
Your required reading and assignments will be the focus of our first few weeks of
instruction, so it is crucial that you arrive to school on the first day with all
assignments completed. These assignments will also be included as part of Marking
Period 1 grades.
If you have any questions, you may contact Mrs. Collins via e-mail at:
[email protected]
REQUIRED READING
9th Grade Reading list Choose TWO
* Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez
* All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Marie Remarque
* One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
* A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
* Red Scarf Girl Ji-Li Jiang
* Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling
Choose ONE:
*Wild Boy: the Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron Mary Losure
*The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True Damatic Story of Prudence Crandle and
Her Students Suzanne Jurmain
*Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
Simeon Wright
Assignment explanations:
Assignment A: Write a literary essay
Your five-paragraph literary essay will focus on an analysis of the main character(s) in the novel.
Assignment B: Write a literary essay
Your five-paragraph literary essay will focus on the theme of the novel.
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Assignment C: Book Review.
When you finish the book, write a two-paragraph response. In the first paragraph, summarize the
plot. In the second paragraph, discuss an idea in the book that you can connect to your own personal
experience.
Use this outline for literature essay:
I. Introduction
A. Title and Author
B. Main idea of the story
C. Thesis statement:
II. Supporting Details
These three paragraphs should include
III. Supporting Details
evidence that supports the topic,
IV. Supporting Details
including characters, conflict, resolution, etc.
V. Conclusion
9th Grade Mathematics Summer Assignment
1. Determine which of the following is not an algebraic or variable expression.
a. 9 + 8
b. 6t – 4
c. 5r/2
d. x + y
Evaluate the expression.
2. 34.5x when x = 4
3. (1/3)y when y = 9/10
4. A rectangular box is created by cutting out squares of equal sides of lengths x from a piece
of cardboard 10 inches by 15 inches and folding up the sides as shown in the figure. The
volume of the box is given by V = x (10 – 2x)(15 – 2x). Find the volume of the box when the
side length of the square is 3 inches.
Rewrite the verbal phrase in an expression.
5. The amount you earn if you make 6.5 dollars and hour.
6. The product of 6 and the quantity 2 more than a number x is at least 45.
Combine the like terms.
7. 2t – 5t =
5
8. 13w – 9w =
9. 7m * 2m =
10. 90d/5d =
Solve the proportion.
11. 16 = -4t
9
27
12. 8
= 4
m+3
m
13. On a class trip, there were 45 more girls than there were boys. The total number of
students on the trip was 211. Write and solve an equation to find the number of girls and the
number of boys on the class trip.
14. What quadrant is the point (1, -4) located in?
15. Graph y = 2x + 1.
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16. A delivery service charges a base price of $15.50 for an overnight delivery of a package
plus an extra charge for each pound the package weighs. A customer is billed $22.85 for
shipping a 3-pound package and $40 for shipping a 10-pound package.
a. Write an equation that gives the total cost of shipping a package as a function of the
weight of the package.
b. Find the cost of shipping a 15-pound package.
Solve the inequality.
17. -9n < 81
18. -3y + 5 < -19
19. 4(m + 4) < 4m + 17
20. The temperature inside of a rainforest in South America ranges from 80oF to 95oF. What
are two possible temperatures that the rainforest can be?
Fill in the blank with < or >.
21. 45
17
22. ¾
4/5
23. -12
12
Write the expression in exponential form.
24. x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x
25. z to the seventh power
26. -4(-m)(-m)(-m)
27. 2(x)(x)
Evaluate the expression.
28. 10 – 30 / 6 + 7
7
29. [(9 – 3) / 3] – 7
Solve.
30. 7/6 * 3/5
31. -|-2|
32. |3 – 7|
33. |10 + 21|
34. (-3)4(-3)2(-3)
35. Graph y = 3*(1/4)x.
Simplify.
36. (-2x2 – 7x + 4) + (x2 – 6x + 4)
37. (2q3 – 5q2 – 5q) – (2q3 + 10q2 – 1)
38. A young child is making a rectangular picture frame for their parents this holiday season.
One side length is 4b. The other side length is 8b. Find the perimeter and area.
39. Graph.
x
y
-2
2
-1
0.5
0
0
Solve without a calculator.
40. 9 + -4 =
41. -8 + 7 =
42. -14 – 6 =
43. -30 + -9 =
44. 14 – 20 =
45. -2 + 11 =
46. (-5)(-3) =
47. -6/2 =
48. (2)(4) =
49. -12/-4 =
50 (-1)(-5) =
8
1
0.5
2
2