My Side of the Mountain

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Preparing for the Adventure

• The Catskill Mountains are located in the state of New York.
• Survival stories may have only one or two main characters and are often focused on man's interactions with the natural world.
• The characters of survival stories have to overcome great odds (challenges) in order to live.

Lesson 2: Learning to Survive

• Definitions of the vocabulary words from the book: bough, brood, combustible, furtive, perch, plumage, poach, primitive, scant, snare, tether, vengeance, ventilate, and whittle.
• Forest fires pose great danger to deciduous forest biomes.

Lesson 3: Making a Home

• Know the following roots and their meanings:
  • Aqua—Water
  • Bio—Life
  • Carn—Body, flesh
  • Gen—Origin, birth
  • Geo—Earth
  • Hab—Live
  • Hydr—Water
  • Nat—Born
  • Terr—Earth, land
  • Vor—Eat

Lesson 4: A Baby Falcon

• Know the following prefixes and their meanings:
  • mis- = wrong, mistaken
  • dis- = apart, away
  • in- = in, into
  • pre- = before, toward
  • re- = back, again
  • un- = not

Lesson 5: A Stranger

• Henry David Thoreau was a famous American author, philosopher, and naturalist who taught people to appreciate and respect the natural world.
• A suffix is a word part added to the end of a word. You should know the following suffixes and their meaning:
  • -en: to make
  • -er: one who
  • -ful: full of
  • -ly: like, resembling
  • -ment: state of, act of
  • -ness: state of, act of
  • -y: inclined to, related

Lesson 6: Autumn

• An ornithologist is a scientist who studies birds.

Lesson 7: Newspaper Reporter

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Final Project: Think-Tac-Toe

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