Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Sickness

• Vocabulary words: abandoned, furrowed, debt, gloomy, preferred, eavesdrop, desperately, astonished, recessed

Lesson 2: Spring is Coming

• Rats and mice have similarities and differences.

Lesson 3: A Visit to an Owl

• Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings.

Lesson 4: Rats in the Rosebush

• The main character is the character that the action of the story revolves around.

Lesson 5: Meeting the Rats

• Irregular plurals are plural forms of nouns that do not have an "s" added to the end of the word to make it plural.

Lesson 6: A Plan for Mrs. Frisby

• A bushel is a unit of measurement equal to 2152.43 cubic centimeters.

Lesson 7: The Capture

• Acronyms are abbreviations formed by the first letters or sections of a phrase.
• A farmers' market is a place where people can buy fruits, vegetables, and other foods fresh from the garden or farm.

Lesson 8: Life at NIMH

• Scientific vocabulary words: DNA, steroids, injections, mutation, control, inspecting, breakthrough, laboratory

Lesson 9: The Escape

• In order for people to survive and be healthy, they need to have more than just water, food, and shelter.

Lesson 10: Amazing Rats

• Tools and simple machines make work easier.

Lesson 11: The Plan

• Animal research and testing is a controversial issue.

Lesson 12: Working in the Night

• Use a comma before a conjunction, when the words on each side of the conjunction could stand alone as a sentence.

Lesson 13: A New Home

• The plot involves the problem, events, climax, and solution to the problem.

Final Project: The Next Chapter or Book Float

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