6th Grade Study Guide
Students in 6th grade will be given 3 periods to complete the exam. Teachers will not collect exam papers until the end of the second
period. During this time, students may not have any materials on their desks, except for their exams and pencil cases. They should take their time
to read and answer each question carefully and to review their exams two or three times. Exams should not be submitted with questions left
blank! Students should answer every question, even if they are not confident about the answer.
Students should be familiar with the content and vocabulary from units 1—2 and Grammar Effects 1. Teachers will not answer any
questions about vocabulary words or key concepts on the exam. Students must study the course material beforehand and ask their friends or
teachers for help about content that they do not understand. Teachers will not help with spelling or grammar on the exam. Teachers will not tell
students if their answers or correct or not. Teachers will not repeat the listening dictation sentences more than three times.
The following information will be the focus of the exam, the vocabulary words that do not appear in the study guide are not crucial for
completing the questions on the exam. Below is the exam format and the values and expectations for each section. Students have encountered
questions of each format in their text books, on homework assignments, on listening dictations, and on unit tests throughout the semester.
Listening
Dictation
10 sentences (10 marks each)
Students will listen to each sentence three times and
write down what they hear.
10—15 words per sentence
10%
Sentences are taken from the unit text books and Holes, and they
may contain vocabulary words.
English
Grammar
20%
Multiple
Choice
20 questions (1 mark each)
Questions will be multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank. They will
evaluate students’ knowledge of the concepts studied in Grammar
Effect 1.
Instructions will be written in a combination of Korean and English,
following the style of middle school English grammar tests.
20 questions (1 mark each)
Questions will evaluate students’ comprehension of content.
Students will lose marks for missing words or incorrect
spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Students will
lose marks if the teachers cannot read what has been
written.
Students will read the instructions carefully and complete
the questions using their knowledge of English grammar
rules.
Students will read each question and the possible
answers carefully and choose the correct answer by
clearly circling or highlighting their choice.
20%
Students will lose marks if the answer is not clearly
selected or if two answers are selected.
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Fill-in-theblank
10%
10 questions (1 mark each)
Questions will evaluate students’ ability to use vocabulary words
appropriately.
15 words will be in the word-bank, but students will only use 10 of the
words.
Matching
15 questions (1 mark each)
15%
Application
Questions will evaluate students’ understanding of vocabulary words.
15 questions (1 mark each)
15%
Questions will evaluate students’ ability to apply the knowledge and
concepts they have studied.
Short
Answer
10%
Questions will require students to complete actions, such as circling,
plotting, abbreviating, and labelling.
5 questions (2 marks each)
Questions will evaluate students’ ability to demonstrate their
knowledge in written form.
Questions will be marked for content, not spelling and grammar.
Students will read each sentence carefully and write the
correct word from the word-bank to complete the
sentence.
Students will lose marks if the words are not spelled
correctly, since they appear in the word-bank.
Students will lose half a mark if they do not capitalize the
vocabulary word when it appears at the start of the
sentence or is a proper noun.
Students will examine the vocabulary words listed and
match them to either a picture or a written definition.
Students will read the instructions carefully and complete
the questions to the best of their ability.
Students will lose marks if the teachers cannot read what
has been written for the questions that require labelling,
summarizing, etc.
Students will reflect on the comprehension questions and
write a clear response.
Students will lose marks if the teacher cannot understand
the answer, if the teacher cannot read the answer, or if
the student does not answer all parts of the question.
6th Grade Study Guide
Unit 1—Great Leaders
Vocabulary
Key People & Concepts
Language Arts:
Grammar:
Social Studies:
Key People:
Key Concepts:
alliteration
autobiography
biography
body language
facial expressions
first person
gestures
indent
intonation
metaphor
non-verbal
communication
pauses
point form notes
repetition
simile
speed
third person
topic sentence
volume
abbreviation
base word
object pronoun
prefix
pronoun
subject
subject pronoun
suffix
African National
Congress
Apartheid
boycott
civil disobedience
Civil Rights Act
colony
democracy
dictator
dictatorship
disabled
dynasty
election
government
human rights
hunger strike
laws
leader
March 1st Movement
March on Washington
monarch
monarchy
nation
Nobel Peace Prize
political activist
religious persecution
segregation
sit-in
Taliban
Tiananmen Square
Massacre
Adolf Hitler
Kwan-sun Ryu
Mohandas Gandhi
Aung San Suu Kyi
Nelson Mandela
Rosa Parks
Ki-moon Ban
Helen Keller
Asma Jahangir
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malala Yousafzai
Chinese Student
Protestors
Language Arts:
-Which presentation skills make a good speech?
-What is the difference between verbal (voice) and
non-verbal communication? List examples of each.
-What is the difference between an autobiography
and biography? What clues help us to know?
-What is the proper structure of a paragraph?
-What are point form notes? Write point from notes.
Science:
blind
brain
deaf
nerves
nervous system
paralyzed
retina
spinal cord
Grammar:
-What are base (root) words, prefixes, and suffixes?
Find examples.
-What is the difference between subject and object
pronouns. List examples of each.
-What is an adjective? Find examples
-What is an abbreviation? Abbreviate words.
Science:
-What parts of the eye let us see? Why would
someone go blind?
-Why would someone go deaf?
-What is the nervous system? How does it function?
Social Studies:
-What are the differences between forms of
government?
-What do political activists do? What do human
rights activists do?
-What did the key people fight for? What did they
do? What did they achieve?
-What is civil disobedience? List examples.
-What are human rights? How many universal
human rights are there? List some human rights.
-What is the United Nations? Why was it formed?
What does it do today?
6th Grade Study Guide
Unit 2 – Explorers and Exploration
Vocabulary
Key People & Concepts
Grammar:
Social Studies:
Key People:
Key Concepts:
compound sentence
conjunction
coordinating conjunction
declarative sentence
exclamatory sentence
first conditional
historical present tense
imperative sentence
interrogative sentence
second conditional
third conditional
aboriginals
Age of Discovery
circumnavigate
colony
Continental Drift Theory
Eastern Hemisphere
economy
equator
evidence
explore
extraterrestrial
First Nations
frontier
Inuit
legend
map
meridians
(lines of longitude)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
natural resources
Northern Hemisphere
parallels
(lines of latitude)
prime meridian
revolutionize
rural
Southern Hemisphere
voyage
Western Hemisphere
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Jacques Cartier
James Cook
Jacques Cousteau
Sir John Franklin
Robert McClure
Roald Amundsen
Alfred Wegener
Social Studies:
Science:
asteroid
aurora borealis
cluster
fossil fuels
galaxy
gravity
orbit
planet
solar system
star
universe
Math:
coordinates
light-years
scale
scientific notation
-What does it mean to explore? Why do people explore? Where
have we explored? What is left to explore?
-What was the Age of Discovery? Who explored at this time?
Why?
-What did each of the explorers listed do? What did they find?
-What is colonization? Why did people colonize?
-What technological advancements allowed for underwater,
Arctic, and space exploration?
-Who lived in and explored the Arctic? What did they know or
discover? What challenges did they face? How did they live?
Science:
-What did the Challenger Expedition set out to discover?
-What is the Continental Drift Theory? Which clues helped to
make this theory? How did the Mid-Ocean Range help to
prove this theory?
-What environmental changes are happening in the Arctic?
-What objects can be found in space? What are the planets?
-What are extraterrestrials? Could they exist?
Grammar:
-What are conjunctions? How do you use them properly?
-What are the four types of sentences? What clues help us to
recognize them?
-What is a compound sentence?
-What are the first, second, and third conditionals? How do you
use each one?
-When should we use the historical present tense?
Math:
-What are maps? How do scales, legends, and coordinates
help us to read maps? Apply knowledge.
-Why do we use scientific notification? Complete calculations.
6th Grade Study Guide
Grammar Effects 1 (English Grammar)
Lesson Name
Chapter 1—1 Nouns
Chapter 1—2 Articles
Chapter 1—3 Pronouns
Chapter 2—1 Be-Verbs (Present Tense)
Chapter 2—2 Verbs (Present Tense)
Chapter 2—3 Verbs (Interrogative Sentences)
Chapter 3—1 Be-Verbs (Past Tense)
Chapter 3—2 Verbs (Past Tense)
Chapter 4—1 Verbs (Progressive)
Chapter 4—2 Verbs (Progressive – Negative &
Interrogative)
Chapter 4—3 Verbs (Future Tense)
Chapter 5—1 Modal Verbs (Can, May)
Chapter 5—2 Modal Verbs (must, have to, should)
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Pages
8—9
10—11
12—13
20—21
22—23
24—25
32—33
34—35
42—43
44—45
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Students are reminded to also study the
reviews and actual tests within the text book.
They should check which lessons they had
trouble with and see if they understand their
mistakes. If not, they should ask their teacher
for help to understand the grammar concept.
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The teacher will provide students with the
answer key to Grammar Effects 1 prior to the
exam. Students can use this to double check
answers in their text books. These answer
keys must be returned after the exam.
46—47
54—55
56—57
Teachers will provide study materials in class and on the 6th grade website. Students are encouraged to complete
as much of this material as they can. Most of it will be optional, but students who take the time to do it will find it much
easier to succeed on the exam.
Students are encouraged to begin studying a couple of weeks in advance, instead of trying to memorize everything
the week of the exam. They should focus on the knowledge and vocabulary that they don’t know, instead of wasting time
writing out words or ideas that they have already memorized throughout the semester. Students should ask their friends
and teachers questions about the material that they don’t understand.