Exam Study Guides Q2

Reading Quarter 2 Exam Study Guide

This serves as an outline of all material included in the Quarter 2 Exam.  Identify your “problem areas,” and spend extra time on these.  Use your Unit 2 Assessment books to study details, as well as returned homework and notes in Writer’s Notebooks.

The exam will include content from stories, as well as comprehension strategies and skills.  All stories from Unit 2 will be covered on the exam. 

1. Apply various reading strategies to read a selection and answer comprehension questions.  Monitoring and adjusting reading speed is especially important in order to ensure you finish the test.

2. Know the main ideas and supporting details of all stories covered in Unit 2.

3. Be able to determine if a statement about a story is true or false. 

4. Know the definitions of all vocabulary words.  Be able to use each word in the correct context.

5. Know all comprehension strategies.  These include Monitoring and Clarifying, Predicting, Summarizing, Asking Questions, Visualizing, and Monitoring and Adjusting Reading Speed.  Be able to apply strategies to examples in stories.

6. Know all comprehension skills.  These include Author’s Purpose, Cause and Effect, Sequencing, Main Idea and Supporting Details, Compare and Contrast, Making Inferences, and Drawing Conclusions.  Be able to apply skills to examples in stories.

7. Be able to apply strategies and skills to your personal reading and life experiences.  Be able to assess the significance of strategies and skills.

8. Be able to identify traits that contributed to Queen Hatshepsut’s reign, and explain how these traits affected her decisions. Evaluate her abilities as a ruler.

9. Be able to compare and contrast civilizations.

10. Explain events that helped the experts decipher the Rosetta Stone, identifying the cause and effect of each event.  How might the outcome be different if these events hadn’t happened? 

11. The cities of Kashgar and Herat were two stops on the
    Silk Route
    that had very different ways of life.  Be able to visualize each city, and draw a representation that demonstrates the differences between the two. 

Language Arts Quarter 2 Exam Study Guide

This serves as an outline of all material included in the Quarter 2 Exam.  Identify your “problem areas,” and spend extra time on these.

1.      Be able to proofread and correct sentences for

a.      Grammar errors

b.      Wordiness

c.      Spelling errors

d.      Sentence combination

2.      Know the correct tenses of verbs and be able to identify examples of each.

3.      Know and identify adjectives and what adjectives modify.

4.      Know and identify adverbs and what adverbs modify.

5.      Know and identify prepositions and their objects.

6.      Know all spelling patterns and spelling words.  Be able to identify misspelled words, correctly spelled words, and be able to spell words from an oral spelling test.

7.      Write a sentence with a linking verb and predicate noun. 

8.      Write a sentence with an adjective. 

9.      Write a sentence with an adverb that modifies a verb, adjective, adverb.

10. Write a sentence with a prepositional phrase. 

11. Write a sentence with dialogue.

12. Know how to write a thesis statement – know the three parts of a thesis statement.

13. Know the different types of effective leads.  Be able to write an effective lead.

14. Know what is in a concluding paragraph.  Be able to write an effective conclusion.

15. Know the different types of clinchers.  Be able to write a conclusion with a clincher.