A House of Tailors

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: German Immigrants

• Immigrants left their homes in search of a better life — better jobs, more money, better living conditions, and freedom.
• Many American immigrants came from Germany. Many Germans also left because of war, poverty, persecution by their government, and overcrowding.

Lesson 2: Dina in Germany

• Vocabulary words: ruffian, garnet, trousers, infantry, skiff, and unwary.
• A clause is a group of related words that contains a subject and a predicate.
• A dependent clause has a subject and predicate, but it cannot stand alone because it is an incomplete thought.
• Dependent clauses usually begin with a word or phrase called a dependent marker (if, because, though, when, after, since).
• An independent clause contains a subject and a predicate and can stand alone as a sentence.

Lesson 3: Journey to New York

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Lesson 4: Welcome to New York

• A coordinating conjunction is a word used to connect words, phrases, and clauses.
• The coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
• A comma is needed before the conjunction when combining two independent clauses in a sentence.

Lesson 5: Dina's Job

• Use commas to separate items in a series. (I packed toothpaste, a toothbrush, pajamas, and an outfit before spending the night with my friend.)
• Use a comma to separate a city and a state. (I live in Tampa, Florida.) If the city and state come in the middle of the sentence, a comma is also needed after the state. (I visited Ames, Iowa, last summer.)
• Use a comma to separate the date from the year and the day of the week from the date. (My sister was born on Saturday, May 6, 2000.)

Lesson 6: A New Hat

• The immigrants' idea of New York was much different from the reality they discovered.
• Vocabulary words: coarse, whir, jostling, robust, and maneuvered.

Lesson 7: Sickness

• Smallpox is a deadly disease that took the lives of many immigrants during this time in history.

Lesson 8: Christmas

• Quotation marks should be inserted only around the words a person speaks aloud.
• Periods and commas go within quotation marks: "Bobby," Jill said, "I will go with you."
• If the person speaking asks a question, the question mark goes within the quote: "Should we leave them here?" asked Sam.
• A comma is used to set off the quotation from the rest of the sentence: Mary cried, "I can't do it."

Lesson 9: A Letter

• A friendly letter includes a heading, greeting, date, body, closing, and signature.

Lesson 10: Fire!

• Authors use writing techniques to make their writing more suspenseful and vivid.

Lesson 11: Living the American Dream

• Historical fiction novels are fiction books that have authentic settings and are based on historical events. The story they tell and the characters are often fictional.

Final Project: Today and Yesterday or Story Quilt

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