A Girl Named Disaster

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Nhamo

• Mozambique and Zimbabwe are bordering countries found in Southeastern Africa.

Lesson 2: Sickness

• Cholera is spread by eating food or drinking water contaminated with bacteria.
• Definitions of the following vocabulary words can be found on the following pages: belligerently p. 54, protruding p. 89, profound p. 98, riveted p. 100, sated p. 118, precarious p. 165, pariah p. 169, constrict p. 189, splayed p. 154, stymied p. 123, and distraught p. 270.

Lesson 3: A Visit with the Muvuki

• The steps in the writing process are prewriting, drafting, revising, and proofreading.

Lesson 4: Escape

• The Portuguese immigrated to Africa in great number, but after Mozambique became independent and was ruled by the Frelimo, many left the country.

Lesson 5: Lake Cabora Bassa

• Prewriting is the part of the writing process where the writer generates and organizes ideas.
• A personal narrative is a true story about something that has happened in a person's life.
• A personal narrative has the same basic story elements as any story, uses figurative language devices to guide the reader, develops an engaging plot that keeps the story moving, and introduces the reader to interesting characters.
• In a personal narrative, you use your own unique voice with a sense of passion, energy, or humor.

Lesson 6: Abandoned Farm

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Lesson 7: Baboons

• Facts about the baboons or other animals found in the book.

Lesson 8: Survival

• A calabash is a hollowed out gourd that can be used to carry water and hold food.
• Drafting is the part of the writing process when you actually write your paper.

Lesson 9: The Leopard

• Revising means "seeing again" and involves finding problems related to the content, organization, and style of a paper.
• Proofreading is typically the last step of the writing process; it involves finding errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

Lesson 10: A Rude Awakening

• A storyboard is a group of images that are displayed sequentially for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture.

Lesson 11: Out with the Old

• The writing process typically does not proceed in a straight line; writers may go back and produce more than one draft, use prewriting techniques while drafting to generate new ideas, and alternate between drafting and revising.
• Using proofreading symbols and abbreviations can help you find and correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors.
• Even if you use your computer's spelling checker, you still need to read carefully through your paper to find possible misspellings. A spelling checker, for example, won't underline a word that is spelled correctly, but is the incorrect word used altogether, which is a common mistake when typing.

Lesson 12: A New Beginning

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