Quarter 1 Revision Sheets

Quarter 1 Revision Sheets Topics Segment Lesson Title Literature 1. The Medicine Bag 2. “You Are the Electric Boogaloo”; “Just Be Yourself!” 3. “Hanging Fire”; “Translating Grandfather’s House” Vocabulary Unit {1} The Times of Zheng He (Narrative Nonfiction) Unit {2} In Poor Taste (Letter to the Editor) Unit {3} Lunch at Delmonico’s (Diary Entry) Grammar Grammar Booklet Reading Unseen reading comprehension Topics covered [1st Quarter] I- My Perspectives 1. The Medicine Bag {short story} -Analyze Craft and Structure p. (23) Figurative Meaning: Symbolism• - Concept Vocabulary p. (24) • wearily • straggled • fatigue • frail • sheepishly Word Study • Animal Words {sheepishly, doggedly, bullheaded, lionize, elephantine} - Conventions p. (25) Verbs in Active and Passive Voice • Active Voice • Passive Voice 2. You Are the Electric Boogaloo Just Be Yourself! {LETTERS} - Concept Vocabulary p. (50) • immense • majestic • numerous Word Study Latin Suffix: -ous {numerous, continuous, desirous, prosperous} -Analyze Craft and Structure p. (51) Author’s Word Choice: Tone • tone • word choice • connotations • denotations - Conventions p. (52) Verbs Moods • Indicative Mood • Imperative Mood • Interrogative Mood 3. Hanging Fire Translating Grandfather’s House {POEMS} Concept Vocabulary p. (54) • horizon • awakenings • beaming Context Clues: • Synonym • Contrast of Ideas • Explanation - Concept Vocabulary p. (62) • horizon • awakenings • beaming -Analyze Craft and Structure p. (63) • Forms of Poetry: - Lyric poetry - Narrative Poetry • Identifying the Theme of the Poem II- Vocabulary: • Unit 1 “adjacent, alight, barren, disrupt, dynasty, foretaste, germinate, humdrum, insinuate, interminable, interrogate, recompense, renovate, résumé, sullen, trickle, trivial, truce, vicious’’ • Unit 2 “available, cater, customary, dissuade, entrepreneur, firebrand, hazard, homicide, indifference, indignant, indispensable, lubricate, mutual, pelt, plague, poised, regime, hinder, transparent, unscathed” • Unit 3 “animated, brood, culminate, downright, drone, goad, indulge, constituent, literate, loom, luster, miscellaneous, oration, peevish, seethe, singe, unique, upright, verify, hanker” III- Grammar: Unit 1 {NOUNS & PRONOUNS} - PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS, AND IDEAS {P.1} NOUNS {P.2} - COLLECTIVE NOUNS {P.3} NOUNS {P.4} - COMPOUND NOUNS {P.5} NOUNS {P.6} - PRONOUNS AND ANTECEDENTS {P.7} PRONOUNS {P.8} UNIT 2 {VERBS} - TRANSITIVE VERBS {P.14} {P.15} - RECOGNIZING FORMS OF BE {P.16} VERBS {P.17} - ACTION VERB OR LINKING VERB? {P.18} VERBS {P. 19} - CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT - COUNT AND NON-COUNT - COMMON AND PROPER - PERSONAL AND POSSESSIVE - INTRANSITIVE VERBS - USING OTHER LINKING - RECOGNIZING HELPING V- Reading Comprehension: • Unseen The Medicine Bag” “ Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve First Read: Comprehension Identify the choice that best answers the question. _ ___ 1. In “The Medicine Bag,” how does Grandpa arrive at the narrator’s home? a. He is driving an old, dust-covered car. b. He is riding in the back of an old pickup truck. c. He is traveling to the narrator’s home in a police car. d. He is walking down the street with dogs following him. _2. In “The Medicine Bag,” why does Grandpa say he has arrived for a surprise visit with the family? a. He wants to see where his only existing descendants live, and he wants to give Martin the medicine bag. b. He feels that death is now very near, and he wants to be buried where his only existing relatives live. c. He wants to teach his grandchildren lessons that will help them respect the old ways. d. He wants to see his family in person to discuss the resentment he has felt for years. _3. In “The Medicine Bag,” why does Grandpa collapse after arriving at the house? a. He has been injured in an attack by dogs. b. He is shocked by life in the suburbs. c. He is overcome with grief. d. He has heat exhaustion. _4. As Grandpa explains in “The Medicine Bag,” how is the medicine bag to be passed down from generation to generation? a. only through chiefs b. only through males c. only through females d. only through firstborn children _ 5. In “The Medicine Bag,” why is the pouch referred to as a medicine bag? a. It holds rocks that carry magical energy. b. It holds leaves that can overcome sickness. c. It holds items that protect and guide the wearer. d. It holds powders needed in the work of a Lakota shaman. First Read: Concept Vocabulary Identify the choice that best answers the question. _ 6. Which of the following words gives the most likely meaning of wearily as it is used in this sentence? After a Tenmile hike, we ate an early dinner and then climbed wearily into our tents. a. Sadly b. Tiredly c. Playfully d. Carefully 7. If Kris asks a question sheepishly, how does she ask it? a. in a bold way b. in a clever way c. in an annoying way d. in an embarrassed way _ 8. Which person best demonstrates the meaning of frail? a. a famous athlete signing autographs b. a sickly person being helped up the stairs c. a shopper complaining about poor service in a store d. a middle-school student taking high-school math classes Close Read: Analyze the Text Identify the choice that best answers the question. 9. The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B. _ Part A In “The Medicine Bag,” before Grandpa comes to visit, how does the narrator feel about talking to his friends about his Lakota grandfather? a. He makes fun of how Grandpa dresses and where he lives to amuse his friends. b. He becomes angry when the other children make fun of Grandpa’s heritage. c. He likes the fact that his stories about Grandpa appeal to the other kids. d. He never reveals to his friends that Grandpa is a Lakota. __ Part B Which quotation from “The Medicine Bag” best supports the answer to Part A? a. He was my great grandfather, and he didn’t live in a tipi; he lived all by himself in a part log, part tarpaper shack on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.