Seventh Grade – Gary Soto
First some questions
Answer the following questions about Seventh Grade.
| Question | Answer |
| What background information do you learn about Victor? | Victor Rodriguez is a 12-13 year old boy who enjoys learning Spanish but doesn’t enjoy maths. He has a crush on a smart, “Cute” girl named Teresa and has a friend named Michael who has taken up the way of GQ magazine models, always scowling when he can. |
| When the boys scowl, the girls look at them. What might the girls be thinking? | There are two possible thoughts, Option 1 and I quote “Omg, that guy looks so cool, I hope I he’s in the same class as me” this is what he hopes there thinking, Option “Look that weirdo, whys he doing that face dumb face, is he trying to act cool?”. |
| What obstacles are getting in the way of Victor making Teresa “his girl”? |
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| How does the tension increase now that Victor and Teresa are in the same class together? | The tension rises on Victors side because now he thinks he has more of a chance at getting Teresa but he nervous scale also rises ten fold but it decreases when Teresa asks him for help in French. |
| Why did the teacher turn his back and walk to the blackboard? | Because he could tell that Victor was losing his confidence and was beginning to say non-existent words or trying his hardest to imitate French. |
| The French teacher, Mr. Bueller, realises that Victor is faking his knowledge of French, yet he does not let on about it. What impression does Mr. Bueller’s action tell you about him as a person and as a teacher? | He doesn’t like to embarrass his students in front of the rest of the class. He cares for the knowledge of his students and wants them to gain confidence as well, he could also tell that Victor didn’t know french at all. |
CREATE:
Create an audiobook version of the story.
- Using Online Voice Recorder or another recording tool, record yourself reading ‘Seventh Grade’.
- Make sure you listen to this version first. Try to read at a similar speed and tone.
- Record yourself for at least 5 minutes.
- Listen back to yourself reading and score yourself using this rubric
- Share you’re recording and marked rubric on your blog
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This week we had to read a book called Seventh grade which is a book by Gary Soto, this is about a boy named Victor who just started a new year in 7th grade. He was given options for class and he picked french as one because he had a crush on this girl called Teresa. He then goes off to see his friend Michael who seems to be scowling like a male model, he picked this up while reading a model magazine that was his brother’s. The rest is in a link at the top.