Study Guide for 7th Grade Humanities Midterms
For both exams, you will be able to “pack your mental
suitcase” by filling out the front of a 3X5 index card (one
for each exam) with ANYTHING you like on it. You may
not, however, type out your essays. Outlines are allowed,
but fully written passages are not! 
English:
1. Vocabulary. You will have 20 SAT words on the exam. You will have a
word bank and you will match the words.
2. Novels. You will need to be able to identify the characters from the novels
The Little Prince, Tangerine, and The Giver and from The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Questions will involve matching, true/false, and multiple choice, and short
answer.
The Little Prince—know what the characters symbolize.
The Prince
The Pilot
The Lamplighter
The Rose
The Fox
The King
The Drunkard
The Businessman
The Epic of Gilgamesh. Recognize aspects of the hero’s journey and be able to
articulate themes of the epic.
Tangerine— be able to analyze the characters using both direct (what the
author tells you directly)and indirect characterization (what you get from
“reading between the lines”).
Paul
Erik
Mom and Dad Fisher
Luis Cruz
Joey Costello
Antoine Thomas
Arthur Bauer
The Hobbit
Know the plot, themes. Be able to identify quotes or specific characters and items
(Smaug; the Arkenstone, Bilbo, the swords, etc).
3. Quotes. You will choose quotes to analyze and show the significance to
the work as a whole. The quotes will come from The Little Prince, The Epic of
Gilgamesh, The Hobbit, and Tangerine. These will be short answer.
4. Grammar.
Make sure you can identify and write declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, and
imperative sentences.
Make sure you can identify simple and complete subjects and predicates.
Know the understood or assumed you, and be able to use it correctly In a diagram.
Be able to edit sentences for correct capitalization, spelling , book titles,
apostrophes, and end punctuation.
Be able to recognize and identify prepositional phrases, and the object of a
preposition.
Be able to identify the direct object, indirect object, predicate noun or adjective.
Recognize transitive/intransitive verbs, and linking verbs.
Recognize a simple, compound, or complex sentence. Be able to diagram simple
sentences that follow the model in our grammar workbook.
5. Essay. You will be asked to write on the following question:
One theme that that has linked our fiction readings is journeys.
Choose two characters (minimum) from the works we have
studied so far, and show how these characters take a journey
and how this journey helps them to see the world in a different
way—they gain knowledge and experience. You must provide
AT LEAST THREE examples for EACH character. Your essay
should have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion
(remember the essay sandwich).
Social Studies
1. People/Places/Things. Expect Multiple Choice and Matching.
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You will have to know the concepts terms from each chapter and
section. The comprehensive list of terms I will use is below. You will
have a word bank throughout the exam. There will be two essay
choices on the exam of which you will choose one to write about. This
is a list from chapters 1-5; I may add others later.
Mary Leakey
Homo Habilis
Anthropology
Archeologist
Prehistory
Fossils
Geologist
Artifact
Donald Johanson’s “Lucy”
Tim White’s “Ardi”
Brunet’s skull in Chad
Technology
Hunter-Gatherer
Culture
Nomad
Neanderthal
Homo Sapiens
Paleolithic
Neolithic
Populate
Migration
Environment
Adapt
Clan
Ice Age
Animism
Revolution
Domesticate
Surplus
Specialization
Catalhoyuk
Economy
Civilization
Resource
Religion
Social Class
Eight Features of Civilization
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Phoenicia
Persia
Assyrian
Akkadian
Cyrus
Fertile Crescent
Barter
Polytheism
Ziggurat
Irrigate
Cuneiform
City-state
Hammurabi’s Code
Empire
Rule of Law
Ally
Cultural Trait
Sargon
Eye for an Eye
Cavalry
Standing army
Tribute
Currency
Stele
Nebuchadnezzar
Hanging Gardens
Darius
Zoroaster
Bas-relief
Import
Export
Navigation
Colony
Cultural diffusion
Alphabet
Hatshepsut
Catarat
Delta
Artisan
Pharaoh
Dynasty
Bureaucracy
Mummy
Nile
Red Land
Black Land
Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt
Scribes
Ramses II
Amon-Re
Osiris
Seth
Isis
Horus
Afterlife
Sarcophagus
Hieroglyphic
Papyrus
Pyramid
Sculpture
Anatomy
Book of the Dead
Anatomy
Commerce
Ivory
Interdependence
Meroitic script
Nubia
Ebony
Monotheism
Commandment
Ethics
Torah
Covenant
Exodus
Scripture
Justice
Prophet
Sabbath
Rabbi
Talmud
Righteousness
Judge
Exile
Diaspora
Synagogue