Summer Reading Packet
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Name ______________________________ Teacher ___________________________ Class ______________________________ Date _______________________________ Summer 2013 Seventh Grade Starter Packet Langston Hughes’ “Freedom’s Plow” Short Response After completing a close reading of Langston Hughes’ “Freedom’s Plow” please complete each of the following questions. Remember to use complete sentences and specific details from the text to support your response. This should be the best example of your writing capabilities to date. 1. Langston Hughes quotes a number of famous people in his poem. Who does he quote and why? Give at least two specific examples. What do the quotes mean? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is a plow in real life, and what does a plow symbolize in Langston Hughes’ poem? Use at least two specific details from the text. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WHEELS Seventh Grade ELA Starter Packet 2013 3. Who is Langston Hughes’ intended audience? In other words, who is he speaking to through his poem? What message or theme is he conveying? Support your answer with at least two specific details from the text. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. How is America a “dream” according to Langston Hughes? How do you define the “American Dream”? Use evidence from this poem, your knowledge of American history, and your own life experiences. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WHEELS Seventh Grade ELA Starter Packet 2013 Summer 2013 Seventh Grade Starter Packet Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address 2005 Short Response After completing a close reading of Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement Address, please complete each of the following questions. Remember to use complete sentences and specific details from the text to support your response. This should be the best example of your writing capabilities to date. 5. Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement Address offers advice to new college graduates. Provide a clear summary of Steve Jobs’ advice. Use two specific details from the text. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. In paragraph 10, we learn that between age 20 and 30, Steve Jobs experienced great success and great failure. What does the text tell us were his successes, and how did his failure occur? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WHEELS Seventh Grade ELA Starter Packet 2013 7. Why does Jobs claim that, “getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me”? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Choose one quote that you feel is the most meaningful or most important to the entire text. Please explain the quote and why you chose it. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WHEELS Seventh Grade ELA Starter Packet 2013 Name ______________________________ Teacher ___________________________ Class ______________________________ Date _______________________________ Summer 2013 Seventh Grade Starter Packet “Inside Out” by Francisco Jimenez Short Response After completing a close reading of “Inside Out” by Francisco Jimenez, please complete each of the following questions. Remember to use complete sentences and specific details from the text to support your response. This should be the best example of your writing capabilities to date. 1. Please provide a clear, concise summary of the text. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What are Francisco’s apprehensions about starting school? Provide two specific details from the text, and explain them. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WHEELS Seventh Grade ELA Starter Packet 2013 3. Why do you think Francisco becomes so attached to the caterpillar/butterfly? What is the butterfly a symbol of? Provide two details from the text to support your response. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Choose one quote that you feel is the most meaningful or most important to the entire text. Please explain the quote and why you chose it. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WHEELS Seventh Grade ELA Starter Packet 2013 Name ______________________________ Teacher ___________________________ Class ______________________________ Date _______________________________ Summer 2013 Seventh Grade Starter Packet Extended Response Directions: Read the extended response prompts below. Choose ONE prompt that you would like to write your extended response essay about. Place a check mark next to the prompt you will be responding to. Use the lines that follow to write an essay responding to the prompt. Remember, this should be your best example of writing. Use what you learned in sixth grade about organization, evidence and analysis, and vocabulary and grammar. Both Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement Address and Francisco Jimenez’s “Inside Out” explore the theme of adapting to change in our lives. Write an essay in which you explain how both authors explore this theme, and describe their similarities and differences. In your essay, be sure to: Explain how both Steve Jobs and Francisco Jimenez explore the theme of change Describe the similarities and differences in their messages Use specific details from both texts to support your response In his Stanford University Commencement Address, Steve Jobs describes fears he had, and risks he took despite those fears. Similarly, Francisco in “Inside Out” has several fears that he is successfully able to conquer. Write an essay in which you explain the fears that each person had, how they overcame their fears, and the lesson(s) the reader can learn from them. 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