Grade 5 Reading
Study all Vocabulary Words in Reading Vocabulary Notebook
Unit 1 – Week of 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13
Unit 2 Week of 10/20 and 10/27
(If you are missing any of the words, go back to the blog for that
week and click on the link for Reading Vocabulary).
Review the Thomas Edison Book
Review Alice in Wonderland Chapters 1, 2, 3
Bring both Books to class on the day of the test
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Grade 6 Reading
Study all Vocabulary Words in Reading Vocabulary Notebook
Unit 1 – Week of 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13
Unit 2 Week of 10/20 and 10/27
(If you are missing any of the words, go back to the blog for that
week and click on the link for Reading Vocabulary).
Review the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Book
Review Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Chapters 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Bring both Books to class on the day of the test
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Grade 7 Reading
Study all Vocabulary Words in Reading Vocabulary Notebook
Unit 1 – Week of 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13
Unit 2 Week of 10/20 and 10/27
(If you are missing any of the words, go back to the blog for that
week and click on the link for Reading Vocabulary).
Review the My Brother Sam is Dead Book
Review the Voyage of Patience Goodspeed Chapters 1, 2, 3,4,5,6
Bring both Books to class on the day of the test
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Grade 7 Social Studies
Know the following information: Use your class notebook and
textbook to guide your studying.
Chapter 1- The World
before the Opening of the Atlantic
Section 1: The Earliest
Americans
a. Beringia (Bering Land Bridge)
b. Migration
c. Ice Age
d. Environment
e. Culture
f. Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca
g. Tenochtitlan
h. Cuzco
i. Quechua
Section 2: Native
Americans
a. Anasazi
b. Kivas
c. pueblos-adobe
d. Monks Mound
e. totem
f. Apache and Navajo
g. Great Plains
h. teepee
i. wampum
j. Iroquois League
Section 3: Trading
Kingdoms of West Africa
a. Ghana- Islam
b. Mohammed
c. Qu’ran
d. Mali- Mansa Musa
e. hajii
f. Songhai Empire- Askia the Great
Section 4- Europe before
Transatlantic Travel
a. Thinkers and Philosophers- Plato (The Republic), Socrates,
Aristotle
b. Democracy (definition)
c. Roman Laws-written
d. Middle Ages
e. Feudalism (definition)
f. Catholic Church-unifying force during Feudalism
g. Crusades (definition)
h. Marco Polo
i. Silk Road
j. Black Death
k. Renaissance (definition)
l. Artists and Writers- Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Dante
m. Banking System- Florence, De Medici Family, Joint-Stock
Companies
Chapter 2- New Empires in
the Americas
Section 1- Europeans Set
Sail
a. effect (definition)
b. Vikings- Leif Erickson
c. Prince Henry Navigator
d. Technology- astrolabe, magnetic compass
e. Caravels- triangular sails
f. Bartolomeo Diaz- Cape of Good Hope
g. Vasco Da Gama
Section 2- Europeans
Reach North America
a. Christopher Columbus- King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
b. Line of Demarcation
c. Treaty of Tordesillas
d. Amerigo Vespucci
e. Vasco Nunez Balboa- Pacific Ocean
f. Ferdinand Magellan- circumnavigate
g. Columbian Exchange
Essay Questions to Review:
Chapter 1: Section 1 page 9- 2 a, b, c
Section 2 page
15-3 a, b, c
Section 3 page 20- 1 a, b, c
Section 4
page 27- 1 b, 3 a, b, c
Chapter 2: Section 1 page 41- 3 a, b, c
Section 2
page 45- 1 a, b, c and 2 a, b, c
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Grade 8 Reading
Study all Vocabulary Words in Reading Vocabulary Notebook
Unit 1 – Week of 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13
Unit 2 Week of 10/20 and 10/27
(If you are missing any of the words, go back to the blog for that
week and click on the link for Reading Vocabulary).
Review the Great Fire book
Review Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Chapters 1,2,3,4
Bring both Books to class on the day of the test
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Grade 8 Social Studies
Know the following information: Use your class notebook and
textbook to guide your studying.
Chapter 16- The Civil War
Section 1: The War Begins
a. Abraham Lincoln- Election, Inaugural Address
b. Fort Sumter
c. Border States- names; importance
d. Advantage of the North
e. Advantage of the South
f. Strategy of the North
g. Strategy of the South
h. United States= North= Union= President Lincoln= capitol-
Washington D.C.
i. Confederacy= South=Confederate= President Jefferson Davis=capitol-Richmond,
VA
Section 2: War in the
East
a. Bull Run- victory- Stonewall Jackson
b. George McClellan-careful- slow-results
c. Robert E. Lee- risk taker- results
d. Second Battle of Bull Run- Victory
e. Antietam- Bloodiest Battle-result
f. blockade- reason- blockade-runners
g. Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac- importance
Section 3: The War in the
West
a. General Ulysses S. Grant- control of the Mississippi River- Unconditional
Surrender
b. Battle of Shiloh-result
c. New Orleans- Admiral David Farragut- Gateway to the
Mississippi River
d. Siege of Vicksburg- starvation
e. Cherokee Indian
f. Abolitionist (definition)
g. Emancipation (definition)
Section 4- Daily Life
During the War
a. Emancipation Proclamation- Who wrote it? What did it say?
b. African Americans in the War- Unit- Purpose of Serving
c. Contraband (definition)
d. Copperheads
e. Military Draft (definition)
f. Habeas Corpus
g. Clara Barton
Section 5- The Tide of
War Turns
a. Gettysburg- turning point of the war- importance
b. Cemetery Ridge
c. Gettysburg Address- delivered by? - where? - content of
speech
d. Wilderness Campaign
e. Sherman- March to the Sea
f. Appomattox Courthouse
e. Effects of the War
Chapter 17- Reconstruction
Section 1- Rebuilding the
South
a. Problems after the War
b. Reconstruction (definition)
c. Lincoln’s Purpose- Ten Percent Plan
d. Procedure (definition)
e. Thirteenth Amendment
f. Freedmen’s Bureau- What was it? What did it do?
g. Lincoln’s Assassination- Where? - When? - Who?-Why?
h. Johnson’s Plan- Why was it opposed?
i. Black Codes
j. Radical Republicans- Who were they? Name 2.
k. Fourteenth Amendment
l. Civil Rights Act 1866
m. Moderate (definition)
n. Principle (definition)
o. Impeachment (definition) - Why was Johnson charged?
p. Election of 1868- Grant – slogan
q. Fifteenth Amendment
Section 2- Reconstruction
in the South
a. Carpetbaggers
b. Scalawags
c. Hiram Revels
d. Blanche K. Bruce- Slave to Senator
e. Ku Klux Klan- Who were they? What did they do?
Essay Questions to Review:
Chapter 16: Section 1 page 515- 1 a, b, c
Section 2 page
521-1b, 2 a, b, c
Section 3 page 525- 1b, 2b
Section 4
page 534- 2 a, b
Section 5
page 543- 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, b
Chapter 2: Section 1 page 557- 1a, 2a, b, 3a, b
Section 2
page 563- 1 a, 2a, b 3a, 4a
