Iggie's House

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: The Move

• A reaction is how a person responds to something that happens.
• rate: degree of speed
• convinced: persuaded
• racial: relating to race or ethnic background
• sarcastic: a sneering or cutting remark
• approval: permission
• glum: sad and gloomy

Lesson 2: Meeting the Neighbors

• Racial relationships describe the interactions between people from different racial backgrounds.
• A fact is something that can be proven.
• An opinion is a belief or personal view that cannot be proven.

Lesson 3: The Softball Game

• The verb of a third-person singular subject usually has an "s" on the end.
• To form the past tense of most verbs, you add -ed to the end. For verbs that end in "e," you drop the "e" before adding -ed. Verbs that don't follow these rules are called irregular verbs.

Lesson 4: A New Dog

• Sentences can be written in past tense when talking about something that happened before.
• Sentences that talk about something that is happening now are written in present tense.
• Sentences that talk about something that will happen are written in future tense.

Lesson 5: A Visit from Germs

• Characters in books often have problems in their relationships.

Lesson 6: A New Petition

• crusader: a person who works hard for social change
• questionnaire: a set of questions used for a survey
• firmly: in a determined way
• jotted: wrote something quickly
• frantically: in a fast and disorganized manner
• permission: authorization to do something

Lesson 7: The Swim Club

• Contractions are words that are formed when two words are combined. One or more letters are left out and an apostrophe is inserted where the missing letter(s) should be.

Lesson 8: Moving

• The verb tense must be consistent throughout a piece of writing.

Lesson 9: A Letter

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Lesson 10: I Have a Dream

• Martin Luther King Jr. was an African-American man who spent his life trying to help people of different races treat one another fairly and with respect.
• "I Have a Dream" is a famous speech given my Martin Luther King Jr.

Lesson 11: The End

• The theme of a story is the main idea or author's message in a story. Stories can have multiple themes.
• The protagonist is the main character, sometimes a hero, in a story.
• The antagonist is the character who struggles against the protagonist.
• Setting is the time and place when the story occurs.

Final Project: Character Interviews

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