The People of Sparks

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: The City of Ember

• Definitions of the following words: drab, ecstasy, inclined, scornful, adversity, deprivation, thermodynamics and exploit.

Lesson 2: Sparks

• A subjective personal pronoun functions as the subject of the sentence (he, she, they).
• An objective personal pronoun functions as the object of a verb or preposition (him, her, them).
• A possessive personal pronoun indicates that the pronoun owns something (his, hers, yours).
• A demonstrative pronoun identifies a noun and refers to things that are nearby or far away (that, this, those).
• An interrogative pronoun is used to ask a question (which, who, what).

Lesson 3: Discovery

• Rules for plurals as shown on the chart in this lesson.

Lesson 4: The Disaster

• An antecedent is a noun or noun phrase that is replaced by a pronoun later in the sentence or in a following sentence.

Lesson 5: Roamers

• A debate is a structured argument where two or more people discuss two opposing viewpoints and provide support for their opinions.

Lesson 6: Flags

• The three basic cases of pronouns are: subject(ive), object(ive), and possessive.

Lesson 7: Tomatoes

• Media are the forms and technologies used to communicate information.

Lesson 8: Unfairness

• Vocabulary words: spiteful, grudgingly, vow(ed), fury, astonishing and frenzy.
• Synonyms can have very similar denotations (primary meaning or definition) but different connotations (the ideas or feelings associated with the words).

Lesson 9: Conflict

• Conjunctions (such as and, or, but) are used to combine sentences.
• Use a comma to separate three or more words or phrases in a list.
• Use a comma before the conjunction when you combine two independent clauses. (An independent clause contains a subject and a verb and can stand by itself as a complete sentence).

Lesson 10: The Decision

• Stories have different types of conflict: man versus nature, man versus man, man versus self, and man versus society.

Final Project: Wars and Plagues or A New Environment

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