UNIT 4: Inpired by Nature (Grade 7)

Part A
What is the overall tone of Passage 1?

• uncertain

• silly

• serious

• uplifting

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

Part B

Which TWO lines best support the answer to PART A?

•   And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew, (line 9)

•   Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky. (line 14)

• I watched her secret toil from day to day (line 6)

• Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound (line 4)

• Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush (line 1)

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

Read line 5 from Passage 1.

With joy; and often, an intruding guest,

What is the effect of the semicolon?

• It urges the reader to read the line faster.

• It causes the word joy to stand out.

• It signals a new idea unrelated to joy.

   

• It changes the meter of the line.

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

Read line 10 from Passage 1.

There lay her shining eggs, as bright as flowers,

Why does the author create imagery with words such as shining and bright?

•   to inform readers that it’s a sunny day

•   to emphasize the joy and happiness of new life

•   to inform readers that the eggs are especially shiny

•  to emphasize that the eggs have just been laid

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

What is the effect of the different rhyme scheme in the last two lines of Passage 1?

A brood of nature’s minstrels² chirp and fly,

        Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky.

• It leaves the reader wanting to read more.

•   It suggests that the speaker is singing.

•   It causes the reader to take notice.

•   It alters the mood of the poem.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

Part A:  What is the overall theme of Passage 2?

•   Laughter is the best medicine.

•   Trees are the most beautiful part of nature.  

•   Imagination is the only escape from loneliness.n you have to stop and that hurts.”

•   People want to feel like they belong somewhere.

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

Part B
Which quotation from paragraph 15 of Passage 2 best supports the answer to Part A?

• “Oh, I don’t mean just the tree; of course it’s lovely—yes, it’s radiantly lovely—it blooms as if it meant it—but I meant everything, the garden and the orchard and the brook and the woods, the whole big dear world.”

• “And I can hear the brook laughing all the way up here. Have you ever noticed what cheerful things brooks are? They’re always laughing.”

• “I’ve just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted.”

• “But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

How does the setting of Passage 2 influence its theme?

•   by describing a garden with lilac trees

•   by mentioning a brook near Green Gables

•   by establishing that it’s a place Anne loves

• by indicating that Green Gables is beautiful

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Read the following sentence from paragraph 1 of Passage 2.

It was broad daylight when Anne awoke and sat up in bed, staring confusedly at the window through which a flood of cheery sunshine was pouring and outside of which something white and feathery waved across glimpses of blue sky.

Why does the author use the metaphor of a flood to describe the sunshine?

• to compare the sunshine to wateR

• to suggest Anne’s love of the sunshine

• to illustrate the beauty of Green Gables

•   to emphasize the abundance of the sunshine

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

In Passage 2, how does the imagery in paragraph 5 contribute to the development of the
story’s plot?

• It shows that Anne is particularly fond of dandelions.

• It suggests that the blossoms are the reason Marilla approached Anne.

• Mentioning the cherry tree sets up a conflict between Anne and Marilla.

• Describing the setting helps explain Anne’s love of the place.

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7