Holes

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Texas and Desert Biomes

• Vocabulary words: wasteland, juvenile, preposterous, excess, venom, precipice, and systematic.
• Animals and plants in the desert have adaptations that help them survive in the harsh climate.
• A biome is large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region.

Lesson 2: Camp Green Lake

• In a title, capitalize the first and last word. Capitalize all words in the middle except articles ("a," "an," "the") and short prepositions (like "in" and "on").
• Underline or italicize the titles of books, plays, magazines, and movies.
• Chapter titles, magazine and newspaper articles, and poems go in quotation marks.
• Legal terms — judge, lawyer, trial, arrested, conviction, sentence, court, justice, and jury.

Lesson 3: Digging

• Layers of the earth's surface are topsoil, subsoil, weathered parent material, and bedrock.

Lesson 4: Caveman

• A fossil is any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, such as a skeleton or footprint.

Lesson 5: KB

• Irony is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning or where something happens that is opposite of what you would expect.

Lesson 6: Sunflower Seeds

• A shape poem describes an object and is written in the shape of the object.
• Alliteration is the use of two or more words of a word group with the same letter.

Lesson 7: Zero

• Early Americans moved out west looking for land and wealth.

Lesson 8: Sam the Onion Man

• Discrimination occurs when someone is treated unfairly based on a group to which they belong.
• A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence that is missing a subject or predicate.
• A run-on sentence occurs when two complete sentences are stuck together without the correct punctuation.

Lesson 9: Driving a Truck

• An adverb tells when, where, or how something happens. It can also describe to what extent or the intensity of something. Adverbs often end in "-ly."
• Adverbs usually modify verbs, but adverbs like "very" and "really" can modify adjectives or other adverbs.
• A relative adverb ("where," "when," or "why") begins a group of words that describes a noun.

Lesson 10: The Mary Lou

• A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared. The comparison contains the words "like" or "as."
• A metaphor describes something in a way that is not literal. It is like a simile but does not contain the words "like" or "as."

Lesson 11: The Thumb of God

• An index is an alphabetical listing found at the back of a reference book that provides page numbers for important words in the book.

Lesson 12: Treasure and Lizards

• Five types of conflict can be found in literature: person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. nature, and person vs. unknown force.
• Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings.

Lesson 13: Innocent

• A business or formal letter includes the following five parts: 1) sender's name, address, and date in the top left corner, 2) beneath that, the address where you are sending the letter, 3) the greeting, recipient's name, and a colon, 4) the body of the letter, and 5) the closure and signature with typed name with beneath it.

Final Project: Welcome to Camp

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