7th Grade Honors ELA Review

The setting of a story includes which of the following elements? Check all that apply.

• Where a story takes place

• The theme of the story

• The main character's conflict

• When a story takes place

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CCSS.RL.7.3

To "conclude" means...

• use context clues

• make a judgement

• begin a story

• introduce a conflict

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following is s synonym of the word "infer?"

• Reject

• Define

• Conclude

• Inform

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CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.7.5C

Theme is the ___________ of a story.

• message

• protagonist

• conflict

• tone

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CCSS.RL.7.2

A summary of a story should include details about the ________, _________, and _________ of a story.

• rising action, climax, resolution

• conflict, characters, setting

• prequel, epilogue, sequel

• beginning, middle, end

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.
The Summary of this passage is:

• There are a lot of cows in Texas.
• There are many different, varied parts of Texas.
•  Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.
•  There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

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CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Giddy-up, cowboys and girls! In the Southwest during early half of the 1800s, cows were only worth 2 or 3 dollars a piece. They roamed wild, grazed off of the open range, and were abundant. Midway through the century though, railroads were built and the nation was connected. People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast, where the Yankees had a growing taste for beef. Out of the blue, the same cows that were once worth a couple of bucks were now worth between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train station. It became pretty lucrative to wrangle up a drove of cattle and herd them to the nearest train town, but it was at least as dangerous as it was profitable. Cowboys were threatened at every turn. They faced cattle rustlers, stampedes and extreme weather, but kept pushing those steers to the train station. By the turn of the century, barbed wire killed the open range and some may say the cowboy too, but it was the train that birthed him.

The summary of this passage is:

• Cows were not worth a lot of money until they could be easily transported to the East after the invention of the train. Many people then became cowboys despite the dangers they faced.

• In the Southwest during early half of the 1800s, cows were only worth 2 or 3 dollars a piece.

• It became pretty lucrative to wrangle up a drove of cattle and herd them to the nearest train town, but it was at least as dangerous as it was profitable.

• People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast, where the Yankees had a growing taste for beef. Out of the blue, the same cows that were once worth a couple of bucks were now worth between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train station.

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CCSS.RI.7.2

Which of the following could be a theme of a story?

• Fear is more dangerous than any beast.

• A brave young girl pretends to be a man and takes her father's place in the army.

• A fear of heights.

• "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too."

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Which of the following could be a theme of a story?

• Your past does not define you.

• Returning home after a long time.

• A man sees a group of people he used to work with a long time ago.

• An old man who used to be a farmer.

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

What is a theme?

• a story line

• the topic/subject

• a universal truth about life and people

• the time and place of an event

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.5.2