NY Released Test - Grade 7 ELA (2023)(New York Standards)

He enjoys playing competitive games.

He wishes to visit more museums.

He desires to learn more about his heritage.

He prefers listening to jazz music.

“And back and forth we’d go, trying to one-up the other in a cultural heritage version of rock, paper, scissors.” (paragraph 9)

“Weekends, I hung out with my only close friend left in the projects, Norbert.” (paragraph 5)

“Size implies maturity. Yes, I was the size of an adult (actually, bigger than most!), but I was still just a kid.” (paragraph 1)

“As a card-carrying Good Boy, I wanted to meet adults’ expectations and get their praise, but as a Regular Kid, I wanted to be like my peers and get their friendship. . . .” (paragraph 1)

“And back and forth we’d go, trying to one-up the other in a cultural heritage version of rock, paper, scissors.” (paragraph 9)

“We would shut ourselves in my room to play chess and talk about our plans for the future.” (paragraph 5)

“. . . both of us had started to take an interest in finding out more about our ethnic origins.” (paragraph 6)

“. . . I had a friend in whom I could confide any thought or feeling, knowing he would never make fun of me.” (paragraph 9)

He discovers the other players know more ways to score in basketball.

He believes he needs to change the way he plays basketball.

He understands he may not be a strong player because of his age.

He realizes he needs to practice more if he wants to improve as a player.

Kareem expected Coach Donahue’s decision to have him play varsity.

Kareem is worried that Coach Donahue is disappointed by his performance as a player.

Kareem and Coach Donahue understand the importance of studying.

Kareem is beginning to understand and appreciate Coach Donahue’s personality.

“My refuge from the explosive turmoil outside, and the implosive turmoil I had started to feel inside, was basketball.” (paragraph 4)

“I hurried away on a mission to tell anyone who would listen that I would be playing varsity that afternoon.” (paragraph 15)

“We even took the subway to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to find out more about Filipino and African cultures.” (paragraph 9)

“The scary thing about being so tall when you’re so young is that people automatically treat you as if you’re older.” (paragraph 1)

The authors present a problem Kareem and Norbert encounter and describe how they solve it.

The authors describe the various interests that Kareem and Norbert have.

The authors compare and contrast the friendship of Kareem and Norbert to the friendships of other students.

The authors use cause and effect to describe how Kareem and Norbert became friends.

by explaining why the speaker moved away from the sea

by suggesting the speaker is happiest when moving from place to place

by revealing why the speaker dislikes being around people

by showing how the speaker knows the reason for feeling discontented

They show the causes and effects of the speaker deciding to live in a different place.

They contrast the speaker’s experiences and feelings about living in different places.

They introduce the conflict the speaker feels about her opportunities in different places.

They compare phases in the speaker’s life when she wanted to be in a different place.

indicating the main places the speaker wishes to revisit

illustrating some of the speaker’s most cherished memories

emphasizing how strongly the speaker wishes to return to the sea

revealing the speaker’s concern about some features of the sea

“If I could see the weedy mussels / Crusting the wrecked and rotting hulls, / Hear once again the hungry crying / Overhead, of the wheeling gulls.” (lines 21–24)

“Searching my heart for its true sorrow, / This is the thing I find to be: / That I am weary of words and people, / Sick of the city, wanting the sea;” (lines 1–4)

“If I could hear the green piles groaning / Under the windy, wooden piers, / See once again the bobbing barrels, / And the black sticks that fence the weirs;” (lines 17–20)

“Feel once again the shanty straining / Under the turning of the tide, / Fear once again the rising freshet, / Dread the bell in the fog outside,” (lines 25–28)

“I am too long away from the water;” (line 35)

“Wanting the loud sound and the soft sound” (line 7)

“Crusting the wrecked and rotting hulls,” (line 22)

“Fear once again the rising freshet,” (line 27)

by explaining the importance of the concert for the mother

by identifying the mother’s opinion about Haydn

by showing the value of music in the mother’s life

by describing the crates where the mother keeps her music

“When Josh was five, he discovered the cello.” (paragraph 4)

“. . . she landed in Takoma Park, at Ahimsa House.” (paragraph 2)

“But he loved hearing stories about the people who lived there.” (paragraph 3)

“The next day, Mom signed him up for cello lessons . . .” (paragraph 5)

by giving Josh an opportunity to express his feelings

by letting the narrator share a memory with her brother

by revealing how Josh has grown in his ability to play the cello

by allowing the narrator to make dinner while her brother is occupied