LANGUAGE ARTS REVIEW SEVENTH GRADE
1st semester 2015-2016
NAME ___________________________________________GRADE 7_______
Part I Questions
1.
What is Fiction?
2.
What is non Fiction?
3.
What are the purposes of non-Fiction?
Part II Fill in
1. Mention three elements of fiction.
2. Name three types of fiction writing
3. Mention three elements of nonfiction.
4. Name three types of Nonfiction writing
5. Name three elements of short stories.
6. Name three elements of nonfiction organization writing.
7. Name types of nonfiction writing.
Part III Write a brief description
1.
Cynthia Rylant
2.
Jean Fritz
3.
Annie Dilliard
4.
Lucille Clifton
5.
Russell Baker
6.
Gary Soto
7.
O. Henry
Part IV short story
1. “Papa´s Parrot ”
a. Why is Harry embarrassed by his father?
b. What does Harry do after school to help his father?
2. “mk”
a. What problems does reading help Jean solve?
b. What is the first thing Jean’s roommate decides to do for Jean?
3.
“from An American Childhood”
a. What are Annie and her friends doing?
b.
Why are Annie and her friends being chased?
4.
“The Luckiest Time of All”
a. Why do you think Elzie considers the stone to be lucky?
b. Why are Mr. Pickens’s thoughts not revealed?
5.
“No Gumption”
a.
What is worrying Russell’s mother?
b.
What do you learn about Russell based on his feelings
about his sister’s salesmanship?
6.
“Seventh Grade”
a.
What does Victor’s blush say about him?
b.
How does Victor deal with subjects that are difficult for
him?
6.
“After Twenty Years”
a.
What is the officer doing?
b.
Which of the two men seems to have had more success in
the twenty years since they last met?
Part V Grammar
Four Kinds of Sentences
A. Read the sentences below. Circle the end punctuation in each one.
Then write declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory.
1.
A diary holds secrets. ___________
2.
Do you have a diary? ___________
3.
Write about yourself. ______________
4.
What a great day you had! _________
5.
I cannot find the key to my dairy. _________
6.
How strange that is! ________
7.
Help me find the key. ________
8.
How did my sister find the key so fast? _______
9.
This diary was a birthday gift. _________
Subject and Predicate
B.
Label the Simple Subject (SS) and Simple Predicate (SP)
1. Many bright colors drift across the sky.
2. A flat yellow sun begins to sink.
3. One more day is coming to an end.
4. A glorious sunset could be a sunset for a poem.
C. Label Complete Subject (CS) and Complete Predicate (CP)
1.
Poetry books were borrowed from the library.
2.
Two poets have visited our school.
3.
Both of them read their poems aloud.
4.
One poem described a new notebook.
Fragments, Run-ons and Sentences
D. Determine whether the following word groups are complete
sentences (C), fragments (F), or run-ons (R). Revise any run-on.
1.
Thought that the Shakespeare play was confusing.___________
2.
Mix the ground beef with the chopped onion and pepper then
add the bread crumbs and egg._______
3.
While they raked the leaves._______
4.
No one could make heads or tails of the very unusual
sculpture.______
5.
We made plans to get together at Charlotte's house later on
during the week we had a lot of catching up to do.______
6.
Because it's supposed to rain._____
7.
If Lillian gets here late, she'll be eliminated from the
competition.________
8.
Our town recycles cans, bottles, and newspapers.______
9.
When Julie went to Paris she visited the Louvre Museum, the
Eiffel Tower she also visited the Champs-Elysées._____
Part VI – Define
A. Give an example for each vocabulary word.
Word
Definition
Antonym
Sentence
Frail
Topped
Paupers
Hindered
Impetus
Murmuring
Solemn
Simultaneously
Idle
Irony
Contradiction
Obstruct
Veritable
Subdivision
Diction
Synonym
Part VII – Essay writing
Pick one of the following styles of writing and write using at least 7
sentences essay including an introduction, body and conclusion and a
concept-web/venn-diagram.
Expository writing (compare and contrast)
Narrative writing
Persuasive writing
Part VIII - Reading Comprehension
Pick one of the following and answer it in the form of an essay using at
least 7 sentences and including an introduction, body and conclusion
not forgetting the diagram.
a. Compare and contrast two children from the novel Cheaper by
the Dozen.
b. Compare and contrast Dad and Mother from one of the novel
Cheaper by the Dozen.
c. Compare and contrast the setting of the novel Cheaper by the
Dozen to today’s world.