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Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Background on Denmark and World War II

• The Allied powers included Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
• The Axis powers included Germany, Japan, Italy, Austria, and Luxembourg.
• contempt: feeling that something is mean, vile, or worthless
• hearse: a large car used to carry a casket
• sabotage: underhanded interference with a plan or production, often during wartime
• surge: a swelling of emotion or a strong, forward, wave-like movement
• intricate: many complex parts are involved, making something hard to understand
• brusque: abrupt or rough in manner
• outskirts: outlying regions of a city
• tantalize: to tease with something desirable that seems in reach but ends up being unattainable

Lesson 2: Soldiers on Every Corner

• Know the proofreading symbols for commas, inserts, apostrophes, and quotation marks.

Lesson 3: The Button Shop

• Propaganda is a form of communication that attempts to influence the attitudes of a community toward a cause or way of thinking.
• Know the editing symbols for add a period, close the space, delete, space needed, and transpose elements.

Lesson 4: In Hiding

• Know important information about the Jewish culture and religion.

Lesson 5: In the Country

• Know the editing symbols for capitalization and lowercase.
• Know the following editing abbreviations: -ed (you have a problem with the final "ed" in a word), frag (the sentence is a fragment), and r-o (the sentence is a run-on sentence).

Lesson 6: Aunt Birte is Dead

• Know the following editing abbreviations: sp (spelling error), -s (problem with final "s"), s/v (problem with subject/verb agreement), T (problem with verb tense).

Lesson 7: Run!

• Know these editing abbreviations: Wdy (wordy, meaning you are using too many words to describe something, which makes that part hard to understand), Ww (wrong word, meaning that you are using a word incorrectly), Pron (there is a problem with a pronoun).

Lesson 8: Little Red Riding Hood

• When an author parallels two ideas or events, she draws a connection between their parts and points out their similarities.

Lesson 9: A Magazine Article

• Expository writing (exposition) provides information and is used to explain, inform, or describe.

Final Project: Think-Tac-Toe

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