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Grade 7 English Literature Semester IExam Study Guide

The information in this document will help to prepare you for the exam. Make sure you read the text, review notes, worksheets, homework, and old quizzes and tests. Review the vocabulary for each section below and make sure you can answer the questions listed underneath each section. Good Luck 

The duration of the exam is 2 hours.

English Literature exam will cover the following content:

  • Section 1: Vocabulary

This section will include a mixture of multiple choice questions tackling synonyms or antonyms, as well as sentence completion and true or false.

  • Section II: Literacy Skills

This section will include multiple choice questions, short answers, and an essay question all related to the selections and stories that are included in the study guide.

Section III: Reading Skills

This section will be an unseen comprehension(s) to assess the students’ understanding and acquisition of the different reading skills introduced throughout the semester.

The exam will be divided into the following sections:

Part A (40 - 60%): This section will consist of multiple choice, fill in the blank, and true/false questions. Part B (20-30%): This section will be a combination of short response/short essay questions and map, graph, chart questions.

Part C (20-30%): This section will consist of one or two long essay questions.

There will be a bonus on the exam not to exceed 5% and will address higher order thinking.

Lesson Title + Genre / Reading Skills / Vocabulary Words / Resources to study from
Necessary Roughness (Chapters 1-20) (Comprehension and Vocabulary questions) / Cause and effect, sequencing making connections, point of view context clues, drawing conclusion, summarizing, main idea / obedient, perpetual,auditions,franchise,
sacrifice,reluctantly,fiddled
pungent,corny,applicable
Squinting,snorted,muttered
Bellowed,leery,ratcheted
Ratty,enormous,jinx
Bewildered,ominously,ushering
Exaggeration,crammed,lull
Molded, instinctively, blabbered, lumberjack, concussion, moron, despite,
Discarded, trotted, scrimmaged , vengeance, cripple, sarcastically complimented, throbbed ,
Representative, Pinched, leaky
Wilderness, rotten, stomped, curiously, testimony / Novel
notes
Seventh Grade / Plot, exposition, climax, conflict, rising action, falling action, resolution / Ferocity, quiver, linger, sheepishly, portly, unison / Holt McDougal Literature CD P. 34-44
NotesHandouts
Thank you M’am / Plot and Conflict
Make Inferences / Barren frail mistrust presentable / Holt McDougal Literature CD P. 66 -74
NotesHandouts
Text Analysis Workshop (Plot, Setting , and Character) / Literary terms/elements / Holt McDougal Literature CD P. 1-19
& P. 28-33
Notes & Handouts
Back to the Future / Plot and setting
In movies / Holt McDougal Literature CD P.154-157
Hand-outs
The Unnatural Course of Time / Analyze a writer’s position / Holt McDougal Literature CD P.158 -161
Hand-outs
Dirk The Protector / Point of View in a Memoir
Identify Cause and Effect / Cohort, conventional, decoy forerunner, hustle, impasse predatory, puny / Holt McDougal Literature CD P.277- 285
Hand-outs
Text Analysis Workshop
Character and Point of View / Point of View
Methods of Characterization / Holt McDougal Literature CD P.184 -189
Hand-outs
Zebra
Short story / Character and Plot
Make Inference
Monitor / Grimace , intricate , disciplinarian, gaunt, jauntily
Winced, chafe, contour, somber ,exuberantly / Holt McDougal Literature CD P.190- 215
Hand-outs
How to Study for the Literature Exam:
Reading skills will be assessed through an unseen comprehension to test the students’ acquisition of the different reading skills. Students are not required to memorize irrelevant details from the selections, they are required to understand major themes and link them to the story.