Unit 1 7th-Grade The Case of the Disappearing Words Exit Ticket and Test Review

Which of the following are considered two forms of supporting evidence for a controlling idea in a feature article?

• facts and descriptions

• statistics and photos

• anecdotes and examples

• measurements and arguments

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.3

Read the following sentence from “The Case of the Disappearing Words.”

Many Native American children of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were required to attend boarding schools where educators forbade them from speaking their native languages.

Which controlling idea from the article does this evidence support?

• Most speakers of other world languages now tend to speak English.

• Language preservation needs to be a global priority by 2100.

• Native American languages have been dying out for years.

• Thousands of languages are vanishing and need to be preserved.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

Which of the following is a controlling idea supported by evidence?

• The News is still the best show on TV, according to comments from some viewers.

• Gravity is a universally detectable force of nature, according to opinions found across the Internet.

• Movies are the greatest entertainment on earth, according to the view of one industry leader.

• Diabetes affects one in fifteen people, according to medical research by Johns Hopkins University.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.8

What is the meaning of the Latin root lingua?

• words or communication

• mind or devising

• language or tongue

• idea or description

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CCSS.L.6.4B

Read the following sentence from “The Case of the Disappearing Words.”

Linguists at projects like the Endangered Language Alliance are working to learn from speakers of disappearing languages.

Based on your knowledge of the Latin root word lingua and the Latin suffix -ist which means “expert in,” what is the best definition for the word linguist in the passage?

• one who speaks two languages

• one who studies languages

• one who is unable to learn languages

• all of the above

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CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.RI.6.4

Using your knowledge of the Latin root lingua, select the most likely meaning of the word linguistic.

• related to the use of the mouth

• related to unusual words

• the study of foreign languages

• of or belonging to language

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CCSS.L.6.4B

An author’s perspective can be suggested through which two ways?

• through the author’s structure and organization

• through the author’s choice of words and details

• through the author’s controlling idea and supporting evidence

• through the author’s biography and background

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.6.6

Read the passage. Which choice best describes the author’s perspective?

Yet many speakers of endangered languages aren’t content just to preserve scraps of their native languages in a digital museum. They hope that new generations will learn them, and that they will again become living languages.

• The phrases many speakers, native languages, and new generations suggest that the author is herself a speaker of an endangered language.

• The phrases digital museum, new generations, and will again become suggest that the author is a scientist studying the issue with total objectivity.

• The words content, hope, and generations will learn suggest that the author writes at a moment in which language loss has been reversed.

• The words endangered, just to preserve scraps, and living languages suggest that the author is sympathetic to preventing language loss.

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.6

Which sentence can best be described as having an author whose perspective is practical and unemotional?

• By the year 2100, the planet is expected to have a population of slightly under 9 billion people.

• Within a century, our planet earth will experience an unprecedented population boom.

• After some decades, the population of the human species will rise dangerously high.

• In just eighty years, there will be so many people on this planet you won’t be able to move.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

How do you support your controlling idea?

• With a conclusion

• With examples

• With a hook

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CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.3.1E