Grade Seven Exam Study Guide

June Exam Review Exam Value: 20% of final grade

SHORT STORY Section (30% = approximately 30 minutes)• A previously unseen short story• 10 Selected Response Questions (Multiple Choice format) = 10%• 2 Constructed Response Questions x 10% = 20%• Constructed Response questions are to be answered in paragraph

format (opening, middle, closing sentence)

 POETRY Section(20% = approximately 20 minutes)

• A previously unseen poem• 10 Selected Response Questions (Multiple Choice format) = 10%• 1 Constructed Response Question = 10%• Contructed Response question is to be answered in paragraph

format (opening, middle, closing sentence)

VIEWING Section (25% = approximately 25 minutes)

• 2 Questions:• 1 Question x 15% (journal entry requiring journal format: Date, Opening Salutation,

Body, Closing Salutation, Signature) VOICE is very important. Choose your Point of View and be convincing with it. First Person Point of View is allowed and encouraged in the journal format.

• Paragraph format is not required in a journal response. A journal has its own format.• A journal response can be fictional (not true) or non-fictional (true).• 1 Question x 10%

• Paragraph format NOT required in this section for either question, though answers must be written in complete, detailed sentences.

DEMAND WRITING Section (25% = approximately 25 minutes) 

• A previously unseen writing prompt• 1 Question x 25% (to be completed in ONE regular English class

period, one week prior to exam week, on Wednesday, June 10th).• must involve an novel studied in class this year• This question is to be answered in a MULTI-paragraph response (=

essay).• - 5% of the 25% question value here is a PLANNING CHART to be

completed before • writing the essay. (25 minute question but full period allowed.)

Essay terms

• Essay: a short piece of non-fiction prose writing dealing with a single topic or theme, and usually expressing one person’s point of view on, or understanding of, that topic.• Genre: the type of writing. Each type of writing follows a set of rules.• Purpose: the reason for writing the essay. The purpose is often

stated within the introductory paragraph.• Introduction: the opening paragraph found in most essays, which

prepares the reader for what the essay is about.

Essay terms

• Body: the paragraphs after the introduction and before the conclusion that develop the major ideas and give the details / evidence to support the ideas or argument.• Conclusion: the closing paragraph found in most essays, which closes the

essay and often summarizes the main points of the essay.• Paragraph: a group of sentences that belong together because they

develop a particular idea.• Audience: a profile of the reader (audience), which is kept in the writer’s

mind, while writing, and ensures that the writing is tailored to that reader. • Biography: a true story written by an author about the life of another

person.

Essay terms • Autobiography: a true story written by a person about his or her own life.• Footnote: a note at the bottom page of an essay that explains to the reader where

the author got a particular piece of information that is noted on that page.• Source: information, usually found at the end of an essay. This gives the author,

title, publisher, etc. of all of the articles, essays, books used when researching the topic.

• Plagiarism: using information from an outside source and used as your own.• Edit: a part of the writing process in which you check for wording, punctuation, or

organization that is incorrect or confusing.• Revise: the stage of the writing process in which you look critically at what you

have written and make improvements.• Proofread: A stage of the writing process in which you check for errors in grammar,

usage, and mechanics.

Quizlet Practice • https://quizlet.com/51653585/essay-terms-flash-cards/

Essay: Constructed Response Questions (20%)

• This section requires you to be able to write a well developed paragraph. Therefore, it is wise to practice writing summaries and journal entries pertaining to written responses to essays and short stories…• Study literary terms pertaining to essay (see notes)• Review rules for responding to essays (see notes and below)• Summary• Respond in past tense; include title, genre, and author; be

chronological.

Essay: Constructed Response Questions (20%)• Review sample responses to essays covered during the unit (see notes)• Check your answers for content, organization, word choice, sentence

fluency, and conventions (spelling, punctuation, and grammar) (no voice in summary)• Argument• Respond in past tense; include title, genre, and author; order argument

from strong to stronger to strongest.• Review sample responses to essays covered during the unit (see notes)• Check your answers for content, organization, word choice, voice,

sentence fluency, and conventions (spelling, punctuation, and grammar)

Essay: Constructed Response Questions (20%)

• Journal Entries•Should be a full page in length. (see notes)•Should prove that you can connect the essay to your world in some way.

Short Story Terms

• Atmosphere: The overall feeling that surrounds a piece of writing. Atmosphere can give the reader important clues, as to the way a piece of writing is going to turn out.• Character Sketch: A brief description of a character, using whatever

evidence is available to you, in order to show his or her attitudes, feelings, thoughts, and personality.• Character Traits: Personal details about the character.• Climax: The point at which the plot of a narrative reaches its turning

point.• Conflict: A struggle between opposing forces

Short Story Terms

• External Conflict: A character struggling against something in the outside world• Interpersonal Conflict: The character's struggle is with another person.• Internal Conflict: The character must deal with his or her own feelings.• Dialogue: Conversation between two or more people.• Fiction: Prose stories in which the characters and events are entirely or partly

imaginary. Novels are works of fiction, as are short stories, fables and myths.• Flashback: When the story reverts back to an earlier time prior to when the

story takes place.• Genre: A term meaning “literary form”.

Short Story Terms

• Major Character: A character that changes as a result of his or her experience.• Minor Character: A character that does not change.• Motivation: Occurrences in the story that cause the plot to move forward.• Narrator: The person who tells a story; the speaker in a piece of writing.• Plot: The plan of a story or play or narrative poem. The way in which all the

little details in the writing fit together so that the end of the story makes sense.• Point of View: The position from which events are seen, a story is told, or an

argument is made.• First-Person Point of View: A story in which the narrator is one of the

characters in the story, or refers to himself or herself as “I” in the writing.

Short Story Terms

• Third-Person Point of View: Writing where the narrator is completely outside the story and never refers to himself/herself in the writing.• Resolution: The part of a story, after the climax, which pulls together all the

loose threads of the story.• Setting: The time, place and circumstances in which a story or event takes

place.• Short Story: A piece of prose fiction which usually revolves around a single

incident or episode in a character's life.• Surprise Ending: A sudden ending to a story. This usually occurs right at the

climax, and usually with a twist of some kind so that the reader has to change his or her attitude to - or point of view on - the rest of the story.

Short Story Terms

• Suspense: The condition of being uncertain about an outcome or decision. When you, the reader, find yourself worrying or wondering about what is going to happen to a character in a story, and keep on reading to find out.• Theme: An idea which comes up again and again. The main idea in a

piece of writing.

Quizlet Practice

• https://quizlet.com/51654815/short-story-terms-flash-cards/

Short Story: Constructed Response Questions (20%)

• This section requires you to be able to write a well developed paragraph. Therefore, it is wise to practice writing summaries and journal entries pertaining to written responses to essays and short stories…• Study literary terms pertaining to short stories (see notes)• Review rules for responding to short stories (see notes and below)

Short Story: Constructed Response Questions (20%)• Summary• Respond in present tense; include title, genre, and author; be

chronological.• Review sample responses to short stories covered during the unit (see

notes)• Check your answers for content, organization, word choice, sentence

fluency, and conventions (spelling, punctuation, and grammar) (no voice in summary)

Short Story: Constructed Response Questions (20%)• Argument• Respond in present tense; include title, genre, and author; order

argument from strong to stronger to strongest.• Review sample responses to short stories covered during the unit (see

notes)• Check your answers for content, organization, word choice, voice,

sentence fluency, and conventions (spelling, punctuation, and grammar)

Short Story: Constructed Response Questions (20%)• Journal Entries• Should be a full page in length. (see notes)• Should prove that you can connect the essay to your world in some

way.

Poetry Terms

• Poetry: writing where the words and phrases have a controlled rhythm and are usually arranged in short lines. Some poems have rhythm, rhyme, and stanzas.• Stanza: a stanza is to a poem what a paragraph is to a piece of prose.

Stanzas may be equal or different in length.• Refrain: a phrase, line, or stanza that is repeated regularly in a song or

poem.• Rhyme: words that rhyme and usually occur at the end of lines in

poetry, but may also occur within a single line (end rhyme, internal rhyme, accidental rhyme)

Poetry Terms

• Rhyme Scheme: a pattern of rhyming words, at the end of every line or every second line, etc.• Narrative Poem: a poem that tells a story.• Lyric Poem: a poem that expresses the writer’s personal or inner feelings.• Descriptive Poem: a poem that creates a picture in words of an event, person,

or thing.• Onomatopoeia: using words that say what they do… Bang! Zip! Whir!• Alliteration: the repetition of the first letter / consonants of words that are

close together.• Assonance: the repetition of the same vowel sound in two or more words

close to one another, usually found in poetry.

Poetry Terms

• Imagery: (sensory detail) words, phrases, or lines that create an image in the reader’s mind. Sight imagery is most often used, but there is also sound, smell, taste, and touch.• Figurative Language: abandoning the literal meaning of a word in order to

create a more vivid or unusual effect.• Simile: a figure of speech that compares two unlike things (using like, as, or

than) that resemble each other in one aspect .• Metaphor: a figure of speech that substitutes the quality of one thing with

those of another.• Personification: a figure of speech that ascribes human qualities to

inanimate things.

Poetry Terms

• Repetition: repeating words, phrases, or lines that build rhythm or emphasize a thought.• Symbol / Symbolism: a character, object, or happening, which stands

for something else of deeper or wider meaning.• Subject: the word or words, always including a noun or pronoun, that

name who or what a poem is about.• Literal Meaning: language which means exactly what it says.

Quizlet practice

• https://quizlet.com/51655801/poetry-terms-flash-cards/

PARAGRAPH FORMAT:

• Opening sentence : author, title, piece of question (or topic), OPINION (author and title are not needed if not part of question)

• Middle : details, definition of literary device, quote, examples, OPINIONS (definition of literary device is not necessary if not in the question)

• Closing sentence : author, title, piece of question (or topic), OPINION(Closing sentence must NOT be identical to opening. Opinion and order of the four elements must be different than opening. Author and title are not needed if not part of question)

JOURNAL FORMAT:• Date• Opening Salutation• Body• Closing Salutation• Signature

• Remember SPACING rules for each part of a journal. (Ex. Skip 2 lines between opening Salutation and Body.)• VOICE is very important. Choose your Point of View and be convincing

with it. First Person Point of View is allowed and encouraged in the journal format.• Paragraph format is not required in a journal response. A journal has

its own format.• A journal response can be fictional (not true) or non-fictional (true).

Types of sentences

Declarative Sentence

• Used to state a fact or facts (to provide information); usually (but not always) punctuated with a period.

“I went to the store for a container of milk.”

“That clown sure had sharp teeth.”

Interrogative Sentence

• Used to ask a question; punctuated at the end with a question mark.

“Can you believe the weather we are having?”

“How many students are supposed to be in this class?”

Exclamatory Sentences

• Used to express excitement or strong emotion on the part of the speaker; punctuated with an exclamation mark.

“What a great night for a bonfire!”

“How good it feels to breathe fresh air after being trapped in that mine!”

ALMOST ALWAYS BEGINS WITH “WHAT A . . .” OR “HOW . . .”

Imperative Sentences

• Used to give commands.

“Go to school NOW!”

“Please sit in your seat.”

“Have fun at the circus, you two!”

Please note

• Exclamatory sentences are not just any sentence with an exclamation point!

“I love chocolate-chip cookie dough ice cream!”is still just a statement of fact: it’s a declarative sentence.

CAPITALIZATION

Capitalize . . . 1. The beginning of

sentences

“The polar bear, the most dangerous predator on Earth, can outrun, outswim, and overpower you.”

“The bus stopped at the bus stop.”

Capitalize . . .• 2. Proper Nouns (people

and places): Jessica Ledwell, Leary’s Brook, Canada

• 3. Titles of movies, books, songs, etc.Star Wars, The Hunger Games, “What Makes You Beautiful”

Capitalization4. Titles of people: Mr.

Peter TarrantLt.

Michael Parker, Prime Minster, Premier

5. Beginning of quotations. “Where did he go?” she asked.

• 6. When using the pronoun ‘I’ : They went home, but I stayed at the mall.

• 7. For languages, nationalities, and religions: French, Canadian, Muslim

• 8. For businesses and groups: Microsoft, Animal Rights Club

• 9. For historical events and documents: World War I, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

• 10. For days, months, special events, holidays: Monday, July, Frosty Festival, Christmas Day

• 11. For products, awards, courses of study: Macintosh computers, Juno Award, History.

• 12. For family titles: Mom and Dad are on their way. Uncle Joe is too busy to join us.

Captain Capital

punctuation

1. ____________________________________________________________________________________

commas• Separate adjectives

that come before a noun

“They were attacked by a gigantic, ferocious shark”

Commas continued

- Set off a speaker from a quotation

Jason said, “Those clowns look like they’re up to no good.”

• Set off phrases and words that introduce a sentence

Even though he’s smart, he’s very lazy.

Commas continued• Set off words that are not

necessary for the basic meaning of the sentence

“Calgary, the 1989 Stanley Cup champion, has only one championship in their history.”

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Apostrophes• Used for contractions (word

shortening)

“He’s (He is) a great player.”

“I wouldn’t (would not) do that if I were you.”

- Used for possessives (shows ownership)

“ Jason’s sword has gone missing.”

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Apostrophes continuedException to this rule:

ITS – is a possessive (The dog wagged its tail.)

IT’s – is a contraction (It’s (It is) a beautiful day.)

Do not use apostrophes to pluralize a word.

• 8. Its important that the kitten learns to find its way home.• 9. She did not hear her childrens cries.• 10. My address has three 7s, and Tims phone number has four 2s.• 11. Didnt he say when he would arrive at Arnies house?• 12. Its such a beautiful day that Ive decided to take a sun bath.• 13. She said the watch Jack found was hers, but she couldnt identify the manufacturers name on it.• 14. Little girls clothing is on the first floor, and the mens department is on the second.• 15. The dogs bark was far worse than its bite.• 16. The moons rays shone feebly on the path, and I heard the insects chirpings and whistlings.• 17. Theyre not afraid to go ahead with the plans, though the choice is not theirs.• 18. The man whose face was tan said that he had spent his two weeks vacation in the mountains.• 19. I found myself constantly putting two cs in the word process.

Colons - Introduce a list

The following students come to the office: Jason, Michael, Robert, and Harry.

- Introduce a formal quotation

The king leapt to his feet and said: “All of my people must obey!”

Colons continued

- After the salutation of a formal letter (used to address people in an official manner):

Dear Sir:I am writing to request information

about . . .

Semi-colons• To separate items in a list that

already use commas

The most polluted cities in the world are Moscow, Russia; Ankara, Turkey; and Beijing, China.

- Act as a period but show a greater connection between sentences than a period does.

Most of the students are here now; the rest are coming in the afternoon.

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Dashes (—)1. Show a change in thought:

“He went this way–no, that way.”

2. Show an interruption to the main idea

“The Super Bowl—remember last year’s game?—is the most exciting part of January.”

Dashes (—)

3. Sets off a summary of what came before as a list.

“Campfires, dirtbiking and swimming—all part of a great summer.”

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Hyphens (-)• Half as long as dashes

1. Used in some names: Terri-Lynn, Jean-Jacques, etc.

2. Used in some adjectives when they come before the noun

A twenty-year-old manhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=65-5IdEP7Z8

Quotation marks (“ ” or ‘ ’)

• Double or single1. Used to show someone is speaking

“Hold on”, said Mark.

2. Used to show sarcasm or insincerity.

He burned down my house and killed my dog! Some “friend” he turned out to be!

Quotation marks continued

3. Use single quotation marks inside of double quotation marks to prevent confusion

Mark said, “Some ‘friend’ he turned out to be!”

parentheses ()

• Not to be called “brackets”!

1. Enclose extra material in a sentence.

John (if that’s his real name) seems to be a nice guy.

2. Around letters or numbers in labeling.

For this assignment you will need (1) a sledgehammer, (2) a cabbage, and (3) all of Elmer’s School Glue you can find.

ellipses (…)

• Three dots . . . not two, not four, not twelve, not a hundred. THREE

1. Show an interruption in dialogue.

“I don’t know if we can trust him if he’s . . . wait, is that him coming now?”

Ellipses continued

2. Identify incomplete thoughts

“He had to do something . . . but what?”

3. Indicate that words have been left out of a quotation. Original: “Someday, we, along with our fathers, mothers and children, will be

free.”

With ellipses: “Someday, we . . . will be free.”

Choose type of punctuation and write and come up with 5 example sentences to share with the class.

spelling

Spelling Rules

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Words that end with “e”

• Drop the “e” if the suffix (ending) starts with a vowel

Blame + ing = Blaming

Don’t drop the “e” if the suffix starts with a consonant

Same + ness = SamenessBlame+less= Blameless

Words ending in a consonant and ‘y’

• Change the “y” to an ‘i’ before adding ending

Pretty + ness = prettiness

. . . Unless the ending begins with an ‘i”

Cry + ing = cryingTry + ing = trying

Words ending with a vowel and “y”• Keep the “Y”Destroy + ing = destroyingSay + ing = saying

One syllable words

• If they end with a single consonant and a single vowel, double final consonant

Slam + ed = slammed Shop + ing = shopping

“i” before “e” except after “c”

• Niece• Piece• But . . . Receipt, receive, deceive

Exception: when the word sounds like “way”

Sleigh Neigh

Rules to improve spelling

• Use a dictionary or spell-checker• Check it over yourself. You will catch more mistakes than you think• Break larger words into smaller:• Beau ti ful

• Look for smaller words in larger ones• To mor row

Apply the Rules• Use the rules we have just

learned to add and ‘ing’ to the following words• Help: • Parade: • Tame:• Drop:• Slant:• Control:

Break the Following Words into Syllables• Analyze• Bicycle• Committee• Dining • February• Manufacture• Souvenir

Identify the Smaller Words Within

• Illiterate• Behaviour• Adolescent• Gymnasium• Mortgage• Loneliness• Laboratory• Restaurant

Identify the Errors• Claire was a grate (1) athlet (2) and

was also incredably (3) intelligente (4). She was an excelent (5) role modle (6) for her friends (7). It was basicly (8) a guarentee (9) that she would be excepted (10) to the universitty (11) of her choose (12), weather (13) she wanted to attend or not. The principle (14) of her school choose (15) her as the student of the year and she ran strait (16) home to tell her parents. They realise (17) that she has received (18) a excellente (19) education and would probly (20) achieve a lot in life.

Corrected Version

• Claire was a great athlete and was also incredibly intelligent. an excellent role model for her friends. It was basically a guarantee that she would be accepted the university of her choice, whether she wanted to attend or not. The principal of her school chose her as the student of the year and she ran straight home to tell her parents. They realize that she has received an excellent education and would probably achieve a lot in life.

Sentence Structure

Wait now, what’s a sentence?

1 subjectthe person, place, or thing performing or doing the action

2 verb the action

3complete idea

the reader isn't left waiting for another word

Subject-Verb Agreement• Subject verb agreement

simply means the subject and verb must agree in number. This means both need to be singular or both need to be plural. Ex: My brother is a nutritionist. My sisters are mathematicians.

Subject/Verb Agreement Examples

• Here are some more examples of subject verb agreement (the subject is bolded and the verb underlined):

• My dog always growls at the postal carrier.

• Basketballs roll across the floor.• I don’t understand the

assignment.• These clothes are too small for

me.• John doesn’t like vegetables.

Types of Sentences• Declarative sentence• Imperative sentence• Interrogative sentence• Exclamatory sentence

Declarative Sentence

• A declarative sentence simply makes a statement or expresses an opinion. In other words, it makes a declaration. This kind of sentence ends with a period.• Examples of this sentence type:• “I want to be a good writer.”

(makes a statement)• “My friend is a really good writer.”

(expresses an opinion)

Imperative Sentence

• An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request. It usually ends with a period but can, under certain circumstances, end with an exclamation point.• Examples of this sentence type:• “Please sit down.”• “I need you to sit down now!”

Interrogative Sentence

• An interrogative sentence asks a question. This type of sentence often begins with who, what, where, when, why, how, or do, and it ends with a question mark.• Examples of this sentence type:• “When are you going to turn in

your writing assignment?”• “Do you know what the weather

will be tomorrow?”

Exclamatory Sentence

• An exclamatory sentence is a sentence that expresses great emotion such as excitement, surprise, happiness and anger, and ends with an exclamation point.• Examples of this sentence type:• “It is too dangerous to climb that

mountain!”• “I got an A on my book report!”

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Sentence Fragments

• Recognize the difference between a sentence and a fragment.• When you analyze a group of words looking for the main clause, you

have to find three things: a subject, a verb, and a complete thought.• If one of these three items is missing, we have a sentence fragment.

Examples

• And yawned loudly enough to make everyone in class turn around.• Subject = Ø ; verb = yawned; complete thought = Ø.• After Gabriel ate half a box of Fruit Roll-Ups.• Subject = Gabriel; verb = ate; complete thought = Ø.• When a sentence fragment occurs, we are left wondering.

Sentence or Fragment?

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Run-on Sentences

• A RUN-ON SENTENCE (sometimes called a "fused sentence") has at least two parts, either one of which can stand by itself (in other words, two independent clauses), but the two parts have been smooshed together instead of being properly connected

How to Correct

• Run-on sentence: I am a woman I am a truck driver.• Options: • 1. If you want to completely separate the two fused sentences, then

you'd use a period: I am a woman. I am a truck driver.

2. If you want to keep more of a connection between the two thoughts, you could use a semicolon and write, I am a woman; I am a truck driver.

3. If you want to make more of a comment on the connection between the two sentences, then you could use a conjunction with a comma. For example, you could write, I am a woman, and I am a truck driver, or you could write, I am a woman, yet I am a truck driver.

4. If you wanted to get fancy, you could use a conjunctive adverb with a semicolon and a comma: I am a woman; nevertheless, I am a truck driver.

Word Types

NOUNS•people, places and things (“horse,” “book,” “countries”)

Verbs•action words (“swim,” “fight,” “run”)

Adjectives•words that describe nouns •(heavy weight, squishy slug)

Adverbs•words that describe verbs and adjectives (running quickly, extremely brilliant)

Conjunctions•transitional or connecting terms (“and,” “or,” “but”)

Prepositions•indicate location or direction (“beneath,” “below,” “over” “in front of”)

Pronouns•stand in the place of nouns (I, you, he, him, his, she, her, hers, they, them, theirs, it, its, himself, herself, themselves, etc.)

Determiners•introduce nouns. They may be the definite article (the) and the indefinite article (“a/an”)

Expletives•Also called interjections•Short expressions of emotions (“Oh!” “Hey!”)

Remember the 3 types of CONNECTIONS:

• Text to Text (to another book, movie, poster, ad, etc.)• Text to Self (to something in your own life experience)• Text to World (to something related to a world issue)

Exam Materials:

• You must have a pen (blue or black + extra one). • You may find use of a highlighter to be helpful (ex. Editing or diction check). • All paper will be provided. • A watch might be helpful to keep track of time/question. You are not

permitted to check time on your cell phone, and a clock may not be visible from your exam seat in the gym.

Exam Day Notes: • Read all selections, directions, and questions very carefully.• Be sure to answer in well-developed paragraphs, where requested. • Pace yourself. Keep an eye on the clock. Budget time for each answer. It

is better to answer all questions than spend too much time on one question. • Your grade will be based on the quality and clarity of your responses.• The most important part of any answer is your OPINION. Use specific

details from the selections given to support that opinion.• Remember to make CONNECTIONS to outside sources in your answers

where possible. Making CONNECTIONS is very valuable!• Be careful not to let the connection consume your answer. It should

only be a sentence or two. It is only meant to support your opinion.

The most important part

• Don’t forget to breathe!