The View from Saturday

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: The Academic Bowl

• A fact is a truth that is known to exist or has happened in the past, based on observation or actual experience.
• An opinion is a personal view, or attitude, not based on certainty.
• Homophones are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

Lesson 2: Florida

• Vocabulary words: domiciles, ironic, tranquilize, subtle, nonchalantly, dictatorial

Lesson 3: Sea Turtles

• Verbs are words that show action, link the subject of a sentence to words about the subject, or help another verb.

Lesson 4: Report Writing

• The writing process includes prewriting, draft, revision, editing, and final copy.

Lesson 5: Epiphany, New York

• A predicate is the part of the sentence that expresses something about the subject.
• Idioms are phrases and expressions that cannot be taken literally. Idioms do not mean what they appear to mean based on the definitions of the words and the way in which the words are arranged.

Lesson 6: Adventures in Wonderland

• A linking verb connects the subject of a sentence with information about the subject but does not show action.
• Similes and metaphors are figurative language devices that compare two unrelated things. Similes use "like" or "as", but metaphors do not.

Lesson 7: Annie

• Helping verbs are used to help the main verb of a sentence show time in different ways.
• Action verbs follow helping verbs.

Lesson 8: The Souls

• Flat characters in a novel are central to the action but are not fully developed.
• Round characters are the main characters that the author tells a lot about.
• An adverb is a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Adverbs tell when, where, how, and to what extent something happens. Most adverbs end in "ly."

Lesson 9: Kindness

• Using active verbs in your writing creates more powerful sentences than passive verbs.
• You can recognize an active verb by finding the subject and the main verb of the sentence and by asking if the subject performs the main action.
• Correlative conjunctions are pairs of words or phrases that appear together in a sentence, such as "either/or," "neither/nor," "both/and," and "not only/but also."

Final Project: An Afternoon Tea

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