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English
EFT7G / Grade 7
End of Year Revision Guide
English – Fast Track
Reading Comprehension and Literature
Reading comprehension skills will be tested with seen and unseen passages. Students
will need to read seen and unseen passages and answer questions about them.
The following reading comprehension and literary skills may be included in the test:
The Snow Girl
Genre: Fiction
 Identify point of view
 Identify characters
 Identify plot
 Identify order of events
 Identify cause and effect
Sir Edmund Hillary
Genre: Biography
 Relate main idea of paragraphs to main idea of essay
 Evaluate evidence to support claims
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Genre: Fiction (Short Story)
 Make an inference
Writing for Freedom: A History of Slave Narratives
Genre: Nonfiction
 Determine central idea / main idea
 Determine author’s point of view
The Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave
Genre: Nonfiction (Memoir)
 Determine author’s point of view
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The Negro National League
Genre: Historical Text
 Summarize text
 Identify main idea and supporting details
 Recognize and explain development of events
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
Genre: Mystery
 Recognize narrator
 Identify character traits
 Identify events, conflict, and character motivation
 Compare and contrast characters
 Recognize features of mystery, including clues, foreshadowing, and suspense
Vocabulary
 Be familiar with all vocabulary words from the stories
 Be able to recognize the words used in context
 When given a choice of words, be able to fill in a blank of an incomplete
sentence with an appropriate vocabulary word
 Be able to match words and definitions from a list
 When given a list of vocabulary words, be able to select some of the words and
use each word in an original sentence that demonstrates its meaning
 Be able to identify the correct synonym and antonym of a given word
 Be able to choose the correct definition using context clues
The Snow Girl
deliberate
emerge
hue
inquired
peculiar
perplexed
reluctant
weary
Sir Edmund Hillary
designate
lacked
endurance
legacy
formidable
sanitation
humble
urban
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
bound
console
cower
cultivate
gait
horrid
lame
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motto
restless
revive
savage
touch
valiant
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
abduction
inherit
assured
investigate
complicated
mock
custody
repulsive
fate
solitary
The Negro National League
astounding
permit
dignity
professional
idolized
provided
draw
Writing for Freedom: A History of
Slave Narratives
abolish
menial
disorient
unprecedented
institution
vital
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The Narrative of William W. Brown, A
Fugitive Slave
delegate
induce
detest
resolve
discharge
Writing
Be able to write an essay. You will be given a prompt. You will need to respond to the
prompt using the essay style. You will also be provided with a rubric that you can use to
construct your essay. You will use a few minutes at the end of the test to neatly make
revisions and corrections. Your essay will be graded on the following writing traits:
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Ideas
Organization
Fluency and Word Choice
Conventions of Standard English
Grammar
 Unit 11 More Abstract Nouns
 Unit 12 Collective Nouns and Plurals
o Collective Nouns
o Agreement: Collective Nouns with Singular Verb
o Plurals
o Making Plurals: nouns ending in -y
o Making Plurals: nouns ending in -ey, -ay, -oy, -uy
o Making Plurals: nouns ending in -o
o Making Plurals: proper nouns ending in –y
 Unit 15 Pronouns: Relative
 Unit 16 Coordinating Conjunctions and the Compound Sentence
 Unit 17 Subordinating Conjunctions and the Complex Sentence
o The Complex Sentence
o Subordinating Conjunctions - until
o Subordinating Conjunctions - although
o Subordinating Conjunctions - when
o Subordinating Conjunctions - unless
o Subordinating Conjunctions - after
o Subordinating Conjunctions - before
 Unit 18 Correlative Conjunctions
 Unit 19 Phrases and Sentences
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Unit 20 Verbs
o Action Verbs
o Helping Verbs: am, is, are
o Helping Verbs: will
o Helping Verbs: was, were
o Helping Verbs: has, have, had
Unit 24 Punctuation: Dashes, Parentheses, and Colons
o Dashes: additional information
o Parentheses: additions, figures, and cross-references
o Parentheses: relevant information
o Colons: lists
Unit 26 Reported Speech
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