Poppy

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Preparing for Poppy

• Fantasy refers to stories that could not happen in real life.
• Protagonist refers to the main character of a story.
• The antagonist is the character that opposes the protagonist.
• Setting is the time and place where the events in the story take place.

Lesson 2: Mr. Ocax

• Conjunctions are words that connect words, phrases, or sentences (and, but, or, for, because, etc.).

Lesson 3: The Emergency Meeting

• Owl pellets are the remains of animals that are burped up by owls because they could not digest them.
• Paragraphs are made up of sentences that deal with a central thought or topic.

Lesson 4: Standing Before Mr. Ocax

• Quotation marks show words that are spoken.

Lesson 5: Poppy and Poppa

• Synonyms are two words that have similar meanings.
• Antonyms are two words that have opposite meanings.

Lesson 6: Dimwood Forest

• A diamante is a seven-line, diamond-shaped poem that describes two opposing nouns.

Lesson 7: Ereth

• Alliteration occurs when two or more words that begin with the same consonant letter or sound are grouped together.

Lesson 8: On the Way to New House

• A summary is a short description of the major points presented in a longer text.
• To be delicate is to be careful or gentle.
• To ask permission is to ask to be able to do something.
• To feint is to fake move or attack.
• A carcass is a dead body.
• Slumber is a synonym for sleep.
• Resemblance is when something is similar to something else.
• Cautiously is a synonym for carefully.
• Varieties means many different kinds or types.
• Something that is luscious has a delicious taste or smell.
• Astonished is a synonym for surprised.
• To attempt means to try.

Lesson 9: The Truth at Last

• A prefix is a part of a word that is placed before a base word.
• A suffix is part of word placed at the end of a base word.

Lesson 10: The Battle

• When you add -ing to a word it means "doing something."
• When you add -ed to a word it means "in the past."
• When a verb has a consonant + vowel + consonant, double the final consonant before adding -ed or -ing.
• When a verb ends in an e, drop the e before adding -ed or -ing.

Lesson 11: Writing Project

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Lesson 12: A New Beginning

• An epitaph is a brief poem or other writing in remembrance of a deceased person.

Final Project: Poppy

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