Exams

 

Click on this link to study for your Ancient Civilizations Test.

 

Time for another evaluation period has come! Below is the schedule and study guide to prepare the students for this challenge.

 

Tuesday, the 11th of December. - Spelling

Wednesday, the 12th of December - Grammar

Thursday, the 13th of December – Social Studies

 

Spelling word list (Practice Book, Lessons 6 -10)

Lesson 6

Words with

ei or ie

Lesson 7

Final

/er/ sound

Lesson 8

Final /en/, /el/, and /er/

Lesson 9

Words with -ed or -ing

Lesson 10

Endings and Suffixes

1.  brief

 2. field

 3.  reign

 4.  review

 5. fiery

 6.  receipt

 7.  relieve

 8.  conceited

 9.  neither

 10. foreign

 11. grief

 12. veil

 13. freight

 14. belief

 15. deceive

 16. yield

 17. beige

 18. perceive

 19. seize

 20. leisure

1. fiber

 2.  similar

 3.  regular

 4.  barrier

 5.  superior

 6.  grammar

 7.  rumor

 8.  character

 9.  director

 10. acre

 11. consider

 12. junior

 13. senior

 14. solar

 15. scholar

 16. razor

 17. surrender

 18. particular

 19. familiar

 20. laser

1.  triangle

 2.  mental

 3.  error

 4.  panel

 5.  litter

 6.  pollen

 7.  gallon

 8.  cancel

 9.  abandon

 10. rival

 11. soldier

 12. recycle

 13. salmon

 14. counsel

 15. rural

 16. vehicle

 17. citizen

 18. monitor

 19. physical

 20. oxygen

1. happening

 2.  limited

 3.  forgetting

 4.  equaled

 5.  fitting

 6.  reasoning

 7.  labored

 8.  permitting

 9.  scrapped

 10. tutoring

 11. admitted

 12. honored

 13. skidding

 14. pardoned

 15. modeling

 16. preferred

 17. scarred

 18. favored

 19. glistening

 20. shuddered

1.  reserved

 2.  unlikely

 3.  purposeful

 4.  adorable

 5.  amazement

 6.  gentleness

 7.  sparkling

 8.  homeless

 9.  excitement

 10. mileage

 11. graceful

 12. sincerely

 13. advanced

 14. usable

 15. amusement

 16. entirely

 17. wireless

 18. excluding

 19. scarcely

 20. changeable

 

 

Grammar and writing:
1. Verbs.
• Action Verbs, Main verbs, being and helping verbs.  – Pr. Book Lesson 6, pages 66, 68, 69.
• Using exact action verbs – Practice Book, Lesson 6, page 71.
• Irregular verbs – Language Arts (purple) notebook. 
• Transitive and intransitive verbs  - Practice Book p. 79, 80.
2. Direct (simple and compound) and indirect objects – Practice Book p. 79, 80.
3. Coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences. Combining simple sentences into compound sentences.   Practice Book p. 91, 92, 93, 95.
4. Phrases and Clauses. Dependent and Independent Clauses. Practice Book p. 103, 104.
5. Complex Sentences. Combining simple sentences into complex sentences using suborditative conjunctions. Practice Book p. 105, 107.
 
Social Studies.
1. Mesopotamia: Sumerians. Soc. Studies p. 219, 220,
• Rivers, neighboring countries.
• Gilgamesh
• Writing (cuneiform)
2. Law and Justice – Social studies p.  74 - 79
• Hammurabi
• Roman Law
3. Social Classes. Social Studies p. 58 -63
• Egypt
• Mesopotamia
• Greece
• Rome
• India
4. Art and Arquitechture.  Social Studies p.  43 - 50
• 7 wonders of the ancient world
• Egyptian Pyramids
• Greek Parthenon
• Roma architecture (aqueducts, ampitheaters, etc).
• Sumerian ziggurats and the Tower of Babel
• Chinese pagodas,  the Great Wall of China, Terracota worriors
• Indian stupas
 
5. Education and Religion – Social Studies p. 66-  69
• Egyptian schools and the writing system (hieroglyphics).
• Mesopotamian writing (cuneiform)
• Greek education (Athens and Sparta)
• Roman education.
6. Roman Republic and Roman Empire
• The rise of the Roman Republic , Roman Senate(Brainpop, Social Studies p.  219)
• Julius Caesar  - Social studies p. 228
• Roman Empire – Social Studies p.  231
• Roman Achievements – Social studies p.  234
 
 
In addition to the written test, students will be expected to write a newspaper article for their assigned ancient civilizations topic.  Please refer to PROJECTS section of this website for the details.
 
Good Luck!
 
Miss Valya
 
 
 

Monday, October 15

Vocabulary Test.

Review Journeys Anthology Vocabulary Pages, Unit 1, Lessons 1-5 (10 words per  lesson, total 50 words).

Target Vocabulary

Lesson 1: literary, revisions, manuscript, wry, editorial, muted, maze, publishing, pressuring, disclose

Lesson 2: contested, pursuit, scholastic, grimly, employed, tumult, mentor, culprit, deprived, miraculous

Lesson 3: menace, resolve, manipulated, precisely, conclusion, emphatically, agony, demeanor, vigorously, revolting

Lesson 4: clamor, torrent, clustered, doleful, swiveled, coaxed, transmissions, accustomed, urgent, void

Lesson 5: predominantly, tendency, welfare, credit, aspect, aptly, tension, parallel, innovation, genuinely
 


 

 

Tuesday, October 16

Spelling Test. 

Review the 100 spelling words from Practice Book, Lessons 1-5 (20 words per lesson).

Spelling Words
 

Lesson 1: batch, reject, vanish, sloppy, rhythm, blunder, strict, meadow, recover, cleanse, text, mystery, expand, bluff, promptly, initials, statue, polish, somehow, dreadful
 

Lesson 2: scene, bracelet, mute, strive, faithful, devote, rhyme, succeed, coax, rely, conceal, forgave, lonesome, delete, confine, exceed, terrain, reproach, abuse, defeat
 

Lesson 3: mound, gloomy, caution, annoy, dawdle, counter, haughty, rejoice, devour, thoughtful, flawless, maroon, droop, doubt, bamboo, hoist, oyster, exhausted, scoundrel, boundary
 

Lesson 4: source, flirt, hurdle, parka, frontier, forward, radar, earnest, afford, urban, discard, smirk, rehearse, mourn, surface, parcel, yearn, fierce, starch, formula
 

Lesson 5: waist, waste, patience, patients, rite, right, write, muscle, mussel, principal, principle, summary, summery, sight, cite, site, stationary, stationery, coward, cowered

 

Wednesday, October 17

Grammar Test

1. Complete Sentences.

Practice Book or Anthology, Lesson 1, Grammar Section.

2. Kinds of sentences.

Practice Book or Anthology, Lesson 2, Grammar Section.

3. Subject and predicate.

 Practice Book or Anthology, Lesson 3, Grammar Section.

4. Common and proper nouns.

Practice Book or Anthology, Lesson 4, Grammar Section.

5. Plural and possessive nouns.

 Practice Book or Anthology, Lesson 5, Grammar Section.

 

 

Thursday, October 18

Ecology “Compost Proposal” Project is due.

Please see the Projects section for detailed description.