Narrative Mid Unit Study Guide

1. Where a story takes place is the ______________.

7th grade takes place where?

• character/Victor's house

• setting/at school

• setting/at a library

2. "7th Grade" does not have a narrator and we have insight to Victor's feelings and thoughts. This is ___________ point of view.

• First person

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

3. Victor chose French as his elective. Elective in this sentence means _______.

• about politics
• optional

• required

4. Victor is bilingual and speaks Spanish. He decides to take French because he already knows Spanish.

This is an example of ______

• The author using the character's actions to shape the plot.

• The author using the character's actions to change the setting.

• The author using the character's actions to demonstrate the difference between French and Spanish.

5. What detail from the story supports your answer for your reason Victor took French?

• "They [Victor and Michael] shook hands, raza-style, and jerked their heads at one another in a saludo de vato."
• "He already spoke Spanish and English, but he thought some day he might travel to France, where it was cool"
• “She would be a good bet,” the teacher said. Then added, “Or the gym teacher, Mrs. Garza."

6. What evidence from the story supports the meaning of "scowl" in paragraph 4?

“I ain’t making a face, ese. This is my face.” Michael said his face had changed during the summer. He had read a GQ magazine that his older brother had borrowed from the Book Mobile and noticed that the male models all had the same look on their faces. They would stand, one arm around a beautiful woman, and scowl. They would sit at the pool, their rippled stomachs dark with shadow, and scowl. They would sit at dinner tables, cool drinks in their hands, and scowl,

• "a portly man, waddled down the aisle"
• "Picking grapes was like living in Siberia, except hot and more boring"
• "the male models all had the same look on their faces"

7. Victor's friend was practicing his scowl. What does the word "scowl" mean as it is used in paragraphs 4-5?

“I ain’t making a face, ese. This is my face.” Michael said his face had changed during the summer. He had read a GQ magazine that his older brother had borrowed from the Book Mobile and noticed that the male models all had the same look on their faces. They would stand, one arm around a beautiful woman, and scowl. They would sit at the pool, their rippled stomachs dark with shadow, and scowl. They would sit at dinner tables, cool drinks in their hands, and scowl,

• grimace, glare

• pout, snarl

• stare, smile

8. Which of the following lines from "Oranges" is an example of sensory language?

• "Frost cracking
  Beneath my steps, my breath
  Before me, then gone,"

• "The first time I walked
  With a girl, I was twelve,"

• "Bringing a saleslady
  Down a narrow aisle of goods."

9. In the line featured in this question, in the poem "Oranges," which form of figurative language is represented?

"Fog hanging like old
Coats between the trees."

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

10. "the innocence of first love" is the _______________ of the poem "Oranges?"

• central idea

• plot

• setting