Study Outlines for the Reading Final Exams

5th Grade Study Outline for Reading Final Exam- June 2012

1. Study Reading Vocabulary Words for the following stories. The vocabulary words for these stories are supposed to be in the front of your Reading Notebook with their definitions.

a. Milo’s Mysterious Gift pg. 126

b. Peach Blossom Spring pg. 135

c. Images pg. 143

d. LAFFF pg. 151

e. The Dolphins Led Me Home pg. 165

f. Wolf Watch pg. 175

g. Farming on Avenue B pg. 183

h. City Birds pg. 193

i. Mary Patten’s Voyage pg. 210

j. Last Days at Red Clay pg. 219

k. The Youngest Buffalo Hunter pg. 227

l. A Gift for Athens pg.235

2. Study synonyms, antonyms, and homophones in the middle section of the Reading NB.

3. There will be both a listening comprehension section and reading comprehension section on the exam. No preparation is needed for either of these sections.

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6th Grade Study Outline for Reading Final Exam- June 2012

1. Study Reading Vocabulary Words for the following stories. The vocabulary words for these stories are supposed to be in the front of your Reading Notebook with their definitions.

a. Aunt Millicent pg. 132

b. Rabies pg. 140

c. Things That Go Gleep in the Night pg. 150

d. Miss Faberge’s Last Daze pg. 157

e. Kinship pg. 172

f. Leader of the Pack pg. 181

g. The Grandfather Tree pg. 190

h. Four Against the Sea pg.197

i. Call Me Proteus pg. 212

j. Nickel- A- Pound Plane Ride pg. 220

k. All Aboard pg. 226

l. The Eagle Has Landed pg. 235

2. Study synonyms, antonyms, and homophones in the middle section of the Reading NB.

3. There will be both a listening comprehension section and reading comprehension section on the exam. No preparation is needed for either of these sections.

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7th Grade Study Outline for Reading Final Exam- June 2012

1. Study Reading Vocabulary Words for the following stories. The vocabulary words for these stories are supposed to be in the front of your Reading Notebook with their definitions.

a. Housekeeper Wanted for Gentleman Cat pg. 93

b. River Rescue pg. 100

c. Only One Woof pg. 107

d. Daedalus and Icarus pg. 115

e. Wings to Fly pg. 121

f. The Great Balloon Craze pg. 128

g. Airy-Go-Round pg. 135

h. Through Skies Never Sailed pg.141

I. West with the Night pg. 148

j. One Bright Star pg. 156

k. Dark They Were, and Gold-Eyed pg. 163

l. The Dog of Pompeii pg. 171

m. Lost and Found: Pompeii pg. 177

n. Digging for China pg. 184

o. The Mysterious Mayas and The Moon and the Year pg. 191

p. The Cave Near Tikal pg. 198

q. The Tomb of King Tutankhamen pg. 205

r. The Treasures of Tomb 26 pg. 212

2. Study synonyms, antonyms, and homophones in the middle section of the Reading NB.

3. There will be both a listening comprehension section and reading comprehension section on the exam. No preparation is needed for either of these sections.

***Remember that the Study Outline for Social Studies is included on the Blog for this week (Vocabulary and Essay Questions).

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8th Grade Study Outline for Reading Final Exam- June 2012

1. Study Reading Vocabulary Words for the following stories. The vocabulary words for these stories are supposed to be in the front of your Reading Notebook with their definitions.

a. Saying Goodbye pg.56

b. The Long Road West pg. 63

c. Weathering the Storm pg. 69

d. The Eagle and the Oriole pg. 76

e. The Story of the Gold at Sutter’s Mill pg. 83

f. All That Glitters pg.90

g. It’s Not the Great Wall, But It Will Last Forever pg. 96

h. The Eternal Frontier pg. 103

g. Bigger Than Life pg. 110

h. Pegasus and Bellerophon pg. 117

i. Aerin’s Dragon pg. 123

j. Lee Bennett Hopkins Interviews Robin McKinley pg. 130

k. Playing for Keeps pg. 136

l. The Night the Martians Landed pg. 142

m. Invasion from Mars pg. 149

n. Mystery of Loch Ness pg. 155

o. President Cleveland, Where Are You? Pg. 162

p. Maria Pepe, Girl of Courage pg. 169

q. The Confidence Game pg. 176

r. Independence Hall pg. 182

s. The Sampler pg. 189

t. Free at Last and I Have a Dream pg. 195

u. Life from the River pg. 201

2. Study synonyms, antonyms, and homophones in the middle section of the Reading NB.

3. There will be both a listening comprehension section and reading comprehension section on the exam. No preparation is needed for either of these sections.

***Remember that the Study Outline for Social Studies is included on the Blog for this week (Vocabulary and Essay Questions).

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Reading Exam is on Thursday, 6/7

Week of May 28, 2012

Reminders:

A. ALL WORK MUST BE DONE IN BLUE OR BLACK PEN. NO OTHER COLOR WILL BE ACCEPTED. WORK DONE IN PENCIL WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED. ONLY ONE OR THE OTHER; NOT A MIXTURE OF BOTH.

B. If the assignment states that looseleaf is to be used, no other types of paper will be accepted (paper ripped out of notebooks or legal pads are unacceptable).

C. June calendars will be sent home on Thursday, 5/31

D. Thursday, May 31- Students should have Rosary Beads and be in full school uniform for the May Procession at 10:00 AM.

E. Friday, June 1 – 12:00 Dismissal due to a Faculty Meeting

F. Review for the Reading Final Exam will be posted this week.

Social Studies outline for review is listed below.

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*** Important: All past homework and classwork assignments will not be accepted after Friday, 6/1. If you are absent this week, I will accept assignment’s only for the week of 5/28 on Monday, 6/4. Remember only if you are absent, and I will check that with Mr. Marcial.

Schedule of Final Exams:

Monday, 6/4- Science

Tuesday, 6/5- Religion

Wednesday, 6/6- Math

Thursday, 6/7- Reading

Friday- none

Monday, 6/11- ELA

Tuesday, 6/12- Social Studies

HOMEWORK AND CLASSWORK FOR THIS WEEK

5th Grade Reading- 5/28/12

You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr. Marcial on Friday. Any missing assignments will be given a zero. Notebooks will be checked when I return.

Lesson Plans:

Classwork & Homework:

1. Tuesday- Read the story The Youngest Buffalo Hunter.

Practice Book pg. 228 Exercises A and B on looseleaf

2. Wednesday- Word Study Book pgs. 78 (1-10) and 79 (1-7). Write everything out on looseleaf.

3. Friday- Word Study Book pg. 81 (1-11). Write everything out on LL.

Make sure you do each day’s assignment on a separate piece of looseleaf. There should be a complete heading on each sheet of looseleaf, the name of the book, and the page numbers. Do not staple the assignments together. Hand in each day’s assignment separately.

Make sure all assignments done on looseleaf are handed to Mr. Marcial by Friday morning.

Remember, your notebook assignments will be given a Project grade when I return.

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6th Grade Reading- 5/28/12- You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr. Marcial on Thursday. Any missing assignments will be given a zero. Notebooks will be checked when I return.

Lesson Plans:

Classwork & Homework:

1. Tuesday- Practice Book pg. 146 Exercises A and B. Write questions and answers. Page 162 Exercises A and B. Write everything out on looseleaf.

2. Wednesday- Practice Book pg. 174. 1, 2, 3. Write the Theme and Explanation on looseleaf. Page 184 1-6 (Write everything out on the back of the looseleaf.

3. Friday- Practice Book pg. 186 (1-10). Write everything out. on looseleaf.

Make sure all assignments done on looseleaf are handed to Mr. Marcial by Friday morning.

Remember, your notebook assignments will be given a Project grade when I return.

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7th Grade Reading 5/28/12

You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr. Marcial on Friday. Any missing assignments will be given a zero. Notebooks will be checked when I return.

Lesson Plans:

Classwork & Homework:

1. Tuesday- Word Study Book- pgs. 77, 78. Write everything out on looseleaf.

Read the story Wesr with the Night in the text.

2. Wednesday- Word Study Book-pgs. 79, 81. Write everything out on looseleaf.

Read the story West with the Night in the textbook.

3. Friday- Skills Practice, complete pages 148 (ans. only) and 149 (ans. only) on looseleaf.

Make sure you do each day’s assignment on a separate piece of looseleaf. There should be a complete heading on each sheet of looseleaf, the name of the book, and the page numbers. Do not staple the assignments together. Hand in each day’s assignment separately.

7th Grade Social Studies

Review for Social Studies Final Exam:

1. Make sure that you copied the 5 essay questions and answers below into your notebook. This was supposed to be done last week. I reposted them below in case you did not write them. These questions will be asked on the Final exam.

2. The following words are taken from Chapters 8-11 in your Social Studies textbook. Many of them are in your notebook already. Look for them and star them. Some are definitions and some are identifications. If there are any that you do not have, look for them in the glossary of the textbook or within the Chapters. You can look in the index to find out in what chapter them might be. Write these words down with their definitions, so you have everything in one place to review. You can work on this during Social Studies this week.

Remember, your notebook assignments will be given a Project grade when I return.

Final Exam Review for Grade 7 Social Studies:

Words to be identified or defined:

1. confederation

2. Articles of Confederation

3. Shay’s Rebellion

4. Northwest Ordinance

5. amendment

6. Virginia Plan

7. New Jersey Plan

8. Great Compromise

9. legislative branch

10. executive branch

11. judicial branch

12. Three-Fifths Compromise

13. ratify

14. federal government

15. Federalist

16. Anti- Federalist

17. Federalist Papers

18. Bill of Rights

19. revolution

20. elector

21. federal republic

22. inauguration

23. tariff

24. Cabinet

25. Judiciary Act of 1789

26. loose-interpretation

27. strict interpretation

28. Bank of the United States

29. political party

30. Federalist Party

31. Democratic-Republican Party

32. Whiskey Rebellion

33. nominate

34. caucus

35. Neutrality Proclamation

36. impress

37. Jay’s Treaty

38. Pinckney’s Treaty

39. XYZ Affair

40. White House

41. mint

42. patent

43. census

44. Alien and Sedition Acts

45. Wilderness Trail

46. township

47. Battle of Fallen Timbers

48. Treaty of Greenville

49. frontier

50. cede

51. Louisiana Purchase

52. Lewis and Clark expedition

53. Old Northwest

54. Old Southwest

55. Sacajawea

56. Zebulon Pike

57. Barbary States

58. neutral rights

59. Embargo Act

60. War hawks

61. national anthem

62. Treaty of Ghent

63. Hartford Convention

64. The Leopard

65. The Chesapeake

66. Tecumseh

67. Francis Scott Key

68. Virginia Dynasty

69. revenue

70. protective tariff

71. nationalism

72. Era of Good Feeling

73. Adams- Onis Treaty

74. Monroe Doctrine

75. Missouri Compromise

76. slave state

77. free state

78. favorite son

79. sectionalism

80. nullify

81. secession

82. depression

83. spoils system

Essay Questions:

1. Why did President Washington issue the Neutrality Proclamation?

Answer: President Washington issued a Proclamation of Neutrality because he knew that the United States was too weak to get involved in another war so soon after the War for Independence. This meant that the United States would not take sides in the war between France and Great Britain.

2a.Why did Tecumseh want the Indian tribes to organize?

2b.How was the Treaty of Greenville typical of the agreements signed by the American government and Indian tribes?

Answer: 2a. Tecumseh was the Chief of the Shawnee Tribe. He wanted to organize a great Indian alliance. He wanted to unite the Indians to prevent invasion of the western lands by white settlers.

2b. The Treaty of Greenville was typical of the agreement signed by the US government and Indian tribes because after a time it was broken by the settlers who invaded the Indian lands.

3. What were the main points of the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer: James Monroe issued a warning to the countries of Europe. This Monroe Doctrine has been called the American “declaration of independence from Europe”. It promised European nations that they could keep whatever possessions they had in the western hemisphere as of 1823. They could not claim additional territory in this hemisphere. The United States would oppose any effort to extend the European system of rule by kings and queens to the western hemisphere. The United States, in return, promised not to interfere in events in any European country.

4a. How did John Quincy Adams become President?

4b. Why was his administration generally unsuccessful?

Answer: 4a. In the Election of 1824, no one of the four candidates had a majority of the electoral votes. The Constitution stated that the House of Representatives should choose the President from the three leading candidates. Henry Clay was fourth and had to drop out. He supported Adams and Adams became President.

4b. Adams’ administration was generally unsuccessful because he entered office with corrupt-bargain charges. He lacked political skill. He raised tariffs and increased the price of public lands to raise money for internal improvements.

5a. How did the tariff issue turn into a nullification controversy in 1832?

5b.What was the result of the nullification controversy between South Carolina and the national government?

Answer: 5a. A higher tariff meant that southerners had to pay more for manufactured products. The South Carolina legislature protested this action by Congress. John C. Calhoun said that a state could nullify (cancel, veto) a national law within its own boundaries. The belief that a state could do this was called the nullification doctrine.

5b. The nullification controversy between South Carolina and the national government resulted in a compromise. The Compromise of 1833 was passed, tariff rates were lowered over a ten year period, and South Carolina accepted the Compromise of 1833.

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8th Grade Reading 5/28/12

You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr. Marcial on Friday. Any missing assignments will be given a zero. Notebooks will be checked when I return.

Lesson Plans:

Classwork & Homework:

1. Tuesday- Read the story Mystery of Loch Ness in the textbook (if you didn’t finish it on Thursday).

In the Skills Practice Book, complete pg.155 (1-10-answers only on looseleaf). Complete pg. 156 1-10 (write questions /answers and skip lines). Do page 156 on the back of the looseleaf. Make sure you have a complete heading on the looseleaf, name of book, and page numbers.

2. Wednesday- Skills Practice pgs. 158 (1-9, write everything out) and 160 (1-14, write everything out). Complete on looseleaf.

3. Friday- Read President Cleveland, Where Are You? in the text.

In the Skills Practice Book, complete pgs. 1161(1-7, questions and answers) on looseleaf. Skip lines

Make sure you do each day’s assignment on a separate piece of looseleaf. There should be a complete heading on each sheet of looseleaf, the name of the book, and the page numbers. Do not staple the assignments together. Hand in each day’s assignment separately.

8th Grade Social Studies

Review for Social Studies Final Exam:

1. Make sure that you copied the 5 essay questions and answers below into your notebook. This was supposed to be done last week. I reposted them below in case you did not write them. These questions will be asked on the Final exam.

2. The following words are taken from Chapters 8-11 in your Social Studies textbook. Many of them are in your notebook already. Look for them and star them. Some are definitions and some are identifications. If there are any that you do not have, look for them in the glossary of the textbook or within the Chapters. You can look in the index to find out in what chapter them might be. Write these words down with their definitions, so you have everything in one place to review. You can work on this during Social Studies this week.

Remember, your notebook assignments will be given a Project grade when I return.

Final Exam Review for Grade 8 Social Studies:

Words to be identified or defined:

1. assembly line

2. consumer goods

3. consumer credit

4. Henry Ford

5. Marcus Garvey

6. prohibition

7. Harlem Renaissance

8. Charles Lindbergh

9. Red Scare

10. Radicals

11. Eighteenth Amendment

12. Nineteenth Amendment

13. stock market

14. speculation

15. Bonus Army

16. New Deal

17. bank holiday

18. fireside chat

19. Social Security

20. collective bargaining

21. Dust Bowl

22. industrial union

23. Mary McLeod Bethune

24. Frances Perkins

25. totalitarian

26. dictator

27. demilitarize

28. Axis powers

29. Neutrality Acts

30. General William (Billy) Mitchell

31. Benito Mussolini

32. Adolf Hitler

33. Joseph Stalin

34. blitzkrieg

35. isolationist

36. lend-lease

37. Atlantic Charter

38. Pearl Harbor

39. pacifist

40. D-day

41. genocide

42. concentration camp

43. Holocaust

44. island-hopping

45. Dwight Eisenhower

46. General Douglas Mac Arthur

47. Harry Truman

48. Hiroshima

49. Manhattan Project

50. total war

51. relocation center

52. rationing

53. Margaret Mead

54. United Nations

55. iron curtain

56. cold war

57. Yalta

58. containment

59. Truman Doctrine

60. Marshall Plan

61. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

62. stalemate

63. coexistence

64. summit conference

65. Eisenhower Doctrine

66. Peace Corps

67. Alliance for Progress

68. exile

69. hot line

70. Spirit of Geneva

71. Peace Corps

72. GI Bill of Rights

73. Green Revolution

Essay Questions:

1. How did the mass production of inexpensive automobiles affect American life?

Answer: The mass production of inexpensive automobiles affected American life by the way people worked and played. People could live farther from their places of work. This speeded the growth of suburbs around large cities. People could shop in places far from their own neighborhoods and travel long distances to places of interest.

The automobile helped make the 1920s a decade of prosperity. Auto factories employed hundreds of thousands of workers. Hundreds of thousands more were needed to make materials that went into the making of cars and new businesses sprang up. Also, governments spent billions of dollars on roads.

2. What did it mean to say that Roosevelt’s New Deal programs dealt with Relief, Recovery, and Reform?

Answer: Roosevelt’s programs dealt with Relief, Recovery, and Reform because Relief meant for providing help for the millions in need. Recovery meant helping businesses, farmers and workers recover from the depression and get back to prosperity. Reform had to do with long-term change. The aim of reform was not only to prevent future depressions, but also to better the lives of all Americans.

3. How did economic conditions and increasing nationalism lead to the rise of dictatorships in Europe?

Answer: Economic conditions help lead to the rise of dictatorships in Europe because after World War I there was depression and unemployment. The dictators promised jobs and prosperity to the people. Nationalism helped lead to the rise of dictatorships in Europe because some countries were left with weak governments after World War I. In Germany and Italy the people believed that they did not receive all that they should have from the peace treaty. Mussolini and Hitler gained power by playing on the nationalistic pride of the citizens of their countries.

4. Why did President Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?

Answer: President Truman had to make one of the most historic decisions of the war and even of human history. This was the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. After he warned Japan to surrender or face prompt and complete destruction and received no reply, one American bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and the whole city was almost wiped out. Some of Truman’s advisers opposed this action because they were afraid that unleashing this force might have terrible consequences for mankind. Truman, however, made his decision on military grounds. Military leaders believed that in order to defeat Japan the allies would have to invade it, costing at least one-half million American casualties. The atomic bomb Truman decided would end the war quickly.

5. How did the rapid growth in population help create new job opportunities?

Answer: The country’s rapid growth in population contributed to new job opportunities and economic growth because city and state governments had to spend more for schools, roads, hospitals, and police and fire services. This meant more jobs for the people. More jobs meant more people could afford homes. This created a demand for and the sale of more consumer goods.

Have a great week!