English Language Arts Final Exam Study Guide Grade 7

The objective of doing the final exam is to measure the students progress based on the comprehension skills and strategies, literary genres, themes, vocabulary, grammar, usage and mechanics skills, and types of writing covered throughout the academic year. All the skills will be reviewed thoroughly with students in classes. The test will include the following: I- Reading, Comprehension: The students are expected to answer comprehension questions on unseen and seen extracts. In order to be fully prepared, students should be able to: 1. Trace plot development 2. summarize events 3. Distinguish different genres such as folktales, myth, drama, poetry, etc... 4. identify main ideas and supporting details 5. distinguish between fact and opinion 6. compare and contrast subjective and objective writing 7. identify author's purpose 8. Define and recognize the different literary terms pertaining to drama and poetry listed on their weekly plans. 9. identify character traits 10. make inferences 11. identify and state theme 12. identify setting, tone and mood 13. distinguish between internal and external conflicts 14. recognize symbolism and figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole 15. define and identify sound devices used in poetry such as onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme, repetition, internal rhyme, external rhyme, and alliteration II- Vocabulary: The students should be able to: 1. recognize the meaning of new words from context by using context clues 2. define vocabulary words related to the following selections in their textbook: A MasonDixon Memor, Elizabeth I, from Long Walk to Freedom and The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. 3. use the selections vocabulary words correctly in sentences and in different contexts.

III- Grammar: Students should be able to: Adjectives and Adverbs: 1. recognize the uses of adjectives and adverbs as modifiers 2. distinguish when to use adverbs and when to use adjectives 3. form the positive and negative comparative and superlative of adjectives and adverbs 4. use the comparison of irregular adjectives and adverbs.

Prepositions 5. identify prepositional phrases and the objects of prepositions 6. identify how the phrase is used in a sentence. Conjunctions and Interjections- FANBOYS 7. 8. 9. 10. identify the coordinating and correlative conjunctions Use coordinating and correlative conjunctions in a sentence. apply the and/or, nor rules for compound subject/verb agreement. recognize interjections.

BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY ALL THE PARTS OF SPEECH AS THEY ARE USED IN SENTENCES IV- Writing: Students will be asked to write a structured response responding to a literature prompt. Students might be asked to: - Write about a character. - Write about a theme. - Write to describe. - Write about their opinion. Students will be assessed based on a rubric including the following traits of writing: focus/ideas, organization/paragraphs, voice, word choice, sentences, conventions and grammar skills.