Section 1: For “The Tree’s Last Laugh”

1. ELA Trimester 3 Mid Term Study Guide DIRECTIONS: Use a separate sheet of binder paper to answer each question. Label your answers according to the section and number for each question. • Section 6: For the letter about the break room: • What is an effect of the employees’ behavior? • According to the author of the passage, employees at Bennet Designs are ____. • When reading this passage, we can see that the author is ____, but also ____. • What is one of the author’s opinions? • What will happen if the situation in the break room doesn’t change? • Section 7: For “Young Trombonist”: • What kind of story does the beginning of the passage resemble? • What is the role of the parents in the passage? • List three places the passage takes place. • What is the point of the passage? • List 2 effect of Stacie’s hard work. • What is the main problem Stacie faces during the passage ? • Section 8: For “My Grandfather”: • What part of speech is the word Irish in sentence 14? • What do you think the work stoicmeans, and why do you think so? • Which of the following does the word stoicmodify in sentence 9? • Which sentence is a sentence fragment? • Rewrite sentences 15 and 16 correctly (check punctuation). • Section 9: “Traveling Seeds”: • How should the underlined part of sentence 14 be written? • How should the underlined part in sentence 9 be spelled? • How should the underlined part of sentence 3 be written? • How should the underlined part of sentence 12 be written? • Section10: For “Mike Smiley”: • What part of speech is the word retired in sentence 1? • What part of speech would you use to modify the word trampoline in sentence 8 ? • From what point of view is the passage written? • Section 1: For “The Tree’s Last Laugh” • If the author wanted to include research information after sentence 10, what might they include? • If the author wanted to add a paragraph to the story describing events before the storm, where would the paragraph go, and what would it say? • If the author wanted to include an additional paragraph to the story after sentence 8, what would it be about? • What is a better way of writing sentence 6? • Section 2: For the table with the states listed: • List three things that are compared among the states. • If you loaded states into the area of Alaska, what is the total number of states you could squeeze in,and which ones would they be? • How is the table with the states organized? • Which state means “green mountain” in French? • Which state has short summers? • Section 3: For the passage about installing a stereo receiver: • What should you do if liquid gets into the unit? • Which component attaches to connectors marked R+ and R-? • When should you call Concerto customer service? • What should you do for best FM reception? • Write one more thing you know about installing a receiver. • Section 4: For “Pot of Gold”: • What does the author use of third-person point of view allow readers to understand? • What was the result of the sons’ digging in the orchard? • What was the father’s motive for telling his sons about hidden treasure? • If this story had been told from the point of view of one of the sons, what would readers understand? • Which detail supports the idea that some people do almost anything to become rich?  • Section 5: For “Great Shrinking Lizards”: • What is the main purpose of the first three paragraphs? • Approximately how far are the Galapagos Islands from Ecuador? • How do we know that marine iguanas shrink? • ”Large iguanas even dive underwater to snatch algae off the sea floor.” • How does the choice of the word snatch affect the meaning of the sentence?