A House of Tailors
Unit Review Sheet
These facts and definitions should be mastered throughout this unit. This page can be used for periodic review and study as you are finishing the unit and in the future.
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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