6th Grade Study Guide
Midterm
Know the following vocabulary words:
Words from Call of the Wild:
1. antagonist2. belligerent3. consternation
4. dignity
5. forlorn
6. indispensable
7. malignant
8. scarlet
9. appeasement
10. blunder
11. courier
12. disconsolate
13. imperative
14. intentness
15. primeval
16. surged
17. arduous
18. cadence
19. diabolical
20. indiscretion
21. instinct
22. vicarious
23. contemplation
24. exultant
25. Grievously
26. mates
27. perplexed
Class L.A. 1
28. brute
29. convulsive
30. fang
31. jugular
32. nocturnal
33. poise
34. compel
35. daunted
36. pandemonium
37. potent
38.resiliency
39.apprehensive
40.cajole
41.cherish
42.fatigue
43.chronic
44.dismay
45.abundance
46. superfluous
47. equilibrium
48. keen
49. slovenly
50. Interval
Words from :The Upstairs Room
1. humiliating
2. impassioned
3. delirious
4. Kristallnacht
5. intolerable
6. rationed
7. synagogue
8. concentration camp
9. kosher
10.curlicues
11.determinedly
12.rucksack
13.glumly
14.impatiently
15.commode
16.dank
17.sandpipers
18.fritters
19.stealthily
20.beckoned
21.gnarled
22.billowed
23.tactical
24.blotched
25.peculiar
26.triumphantly
27.deftly
28.clenched
29.jubilantly
30.rationed
31.elated
32.bedridden
33.sulkily
34.spectacle
35.burrowed
36.spittle
37.miserable
38.invasion
39.crouched
40.massaged
41.animatedly
42.interfere
43.drastic
44.sheepishly
45.Fascist
46.desperately
47.frail
48.hysterically
49.saliva
50.resisting
51.coaxed
52.sullenly
53.sloshed
54.grimaced
55.indignantly
56.energetically
57.codliver oil
58.hollering
59.bayonet
60.sniveling
61.hostages
62.maniac
63.parachutists
64.nauseous
65.relented
66.desperately
67.distinguished
68.parsonage
69.bewilderedly
70.rubble
71.defiantly
72.intact
Know the following terms and how they are demonstrated in a story
 Plot
 Plot events
 Conflict
 Setting
 Characters - Character Motives and Traits
 Problem/Solution
 Resolution
 Recognize how imagery is used with in a story
 Recognize different types of genres
Grammar
Know the following concepts and how to use them in a sentence
1. common noun
2. proper noun
3. compound nouns
4. pronouns and antecedents
5. personal pronouns
6. demonstrative pronouns
7. verbs- action and condition
8. action verbs – visible and mental
9. linking verbs - forms of be
10.helping verbs
11. adjectives
12. articles
13. proper adjectives
14. possessive adjectives
15. adverbs
16. distinguishing between adjectives and adverbs
17. prepositions
18. distinguishing between prepositions and adverbs
19. conjunctions and correlative conjunctions
20. interjections