7th Grade Unit 1 Benchmark Review

To retell a story in your own words.

What is expressed as a statement, not as a single word or a long paragraph?

A folk tale that takes place in a magical land ruled by royalty and the characters are good or evil.

A genre of stories that is generally set in the future and tie in with science and technology.

A genre of stories that involves a secret or crime that needs to be solved, usually by the end of the story.

What is the universal message or lesson the author wants you to learn?

A genre of stories that didn't really happen, but are based on events in history or on Historical Figures.

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Which is not a folktale?

When you use what you know and details from the text to make a prediction about what you are reading.

A folktale made up by people who want to explain how or why the world works.

Expresses what the story is mostly about in 1 or 2 sentences.

Text evidence + Schema =

A genre of stories that are made up but could easily happen in real life.

A folktale with some connection to a real historical person or event.