The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Barbados to Connecticut

• Barbados is the easternmost Caribbean island.
• A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence.
• Vocabulary words and definitions: disembark, quenched, impression, nonplussed, frippery, impulse, infectious, and conspicuous.

Lesson 2: The Woods

• Barbados and Connecticut were colonized by the English.
• Slavery was a way of life in Barbados.
• Puritans opposed slavery.
• The Connecticut Colony was first established by a group of Puritans, led by Thomas Hooker, who left Massachusetts for religious differences.

Lesson 3: Meeting House

• The Meeting House was the building where the Puritans held their religious services.
• Connecticut was the eighth colony established in America.
• The Royalists, also called loyalists, were the colonists who supported the king in England.

Lesson 4: William

• The colonists had to make use of their natural resources in order to survive.
• A political battle began in Connecticut between the Royalists and those in support of a free government.

Lesson 5: The Meadow

• A clause is a group of words that contains a subject or a verb. A clause can be independent (stand alone as a sentence) or dependent (cannot stand alone).
• A descriptive clause is a dependent clause that describes a noun.
• Effective writers show the reader rather than tell the reader. These strategies help a writer show the reader:
  • Don't tell how a character feels; describe actions that reveal emotion
  • Use dialogue
  • Appeal to the reader's five senses
  • Use action verbs and descriptive nouns (imagery)

Lesson 6: The Widow

• The Quakers and Puritans had very different religious practices.
• Both the Quakers and the Puritans suffered persecution in England and came to America seeking religious freedom.
• Vocabulary words and definitions: malicious, drudgery, forfeit, reconcile, arrogance, mockery, quizzical, and exquisite.

Lesson 7: A Bird

• A comma sets off spoken words from the rest of the sentence.
• Quotation marks should be inserted around the words a person speaks.

Lesson 8: New England in the Fall

• The colonists felt that the new governor did not respect their hard work and did not want to see them prosper.
• In New England, fall is a beautiful season in which the leaves turn amazing colors.
• A simile compares two unrelated things using the word "like" or "as."
• Personification is a figurative language technique in which an author gives human emotions or characteristics to an animal, thing, or idea.
• Imagery is when an author uses descriptive language to help the reader create a visual image in his or her mind.

Lesson 9: Halloween in the Colonies

• A run-on sentence joins two or more independent clauses (complete sentences) without proper conjunctions or punctuation.

Lesson 10: A Witch Hunt

• The Salem Witch Trials occurred in the Massachusetts Colony. Innocent people were accused of witchcraft and were punished severely.

Lesson 11: The Trial

• Many colonists were not prepared to survive the harsh winters they discovered in New England.

Final Project: Narrative Essay

• A paragraph should stay focused on a main idea.
• A personal narrative tells a story about an event that happened to you.
• A five paragraph essay is made up of an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.