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6th Grade Reading
Final Study Guide
This is an outline of all the information you should know for the 6th grade Reading Final. Students
should study old test and quizzes and homework assignments as questions on the final are taken
directly from them.
UNIT 1: Elements of a Story
Theme: the underlying message or lesson the author is trying to teach the reader
Plot: events that take place in the story
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Conflict: struggle between two forces
Man vs. man
Man vs. society
Man vs. nature
Man vs. self
Setting: where and when the story takes place
Characters: people, animals or creatures in the story
Antagonist
Protagonist
UNIT 2: GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Know all 14 gods and goddesses of Olympia and what they are the god or goddess
of:
GREEK NAME
1. ZEUS
2. HERA
3. POSEIDON
4. HADES
5. ATHENA
6. APOLLO
7. ARTEMIS
8. APHRODITE
9. HERMES
10. ARES
11. HEPHAESTUS
12. HESTIA
13. DEMETER
14. DIONYSUS
ROMAN NAME
REALM
SYMBOL
FACTS
Be familiar with the stories of Demeter, Prometheus, Pandora, Persephone, the
Titans, Gaea and Uranus.
UNIT 3: THE BOY OF THE PAINTED CAVE
Boy of the Painted Cave Vocabulary
Word
Found on
Page #
taboo
15
rites
15
clan
15
shaman
15
aurochs
16
embankment
25
grubs
25
kestrel
31
slough
32
thicket
32
Fiendish
35
Definition
Tussocks
39
ponderously
92
poultice
99
tarpan
99
UNIT 4: BLACK SHIPS BEFORE TROY
Use your packet to study the sequence of events and major characters including
the following:
GREEKS
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Agamemnon (King of all of Greece, brother
to King Menelaus)
Menelaus ( King of Sparta, married to
Helen)
Helen (Queen of Sparta, married to
Menelaus, took part in starting Trojan
War, most beautiful mortal, runs away
with Paris to Troy)
Achilles (war-leader for Greeks, son of King
Peleus and Queen Thetis, immortal except
for his heel)
Old Nestor (advisor to the King)
King Lycomedes (King of Scyros, helped
hide Achilles)
Odysseus (King of Ithaca, found Achilles)
Calchas (soothsayer, predicted Greece
would not win the war without Achilles)
Patroclus (Achilles’ friend, went over to
Troy with him)
Athena (picked Greeks because Aphrodite
was helping Trojans)
Athena (supports the Greeks, told
Pandarus to fire arrow at Menelaus)
Diomedes (Loud War Cry, Greek warrior)
Ajax- (strong Greek warrior, fought Hector
TROJANS
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Paris (Prince of Troy, son of King Priam and
Queen Hecuba)
King Priam and Queen Hecuba (King and
Queen of Troy)
Hector (Paris’ older brother, war leader of
Troy)
Aphrodite (goddess of love and beauty,
received golden apple from Paris)
Oenone ( wood-nymph, Paris’s first love.
Paris left her to find Helen)
Chryseis (daughter of priest of Apollo,
stolen and given Agamemnon)
Breisis (stolen and given to Achiiles, and
then later given to Agamemnon)
Andromache (Hector’s wife, she wants him
to stay with her)
Astyanax (Hector’s son)
Pandarus (shot arrow at Menelaus
because Athena told him to)
Aeneas (put in charge by Hector so he can
say goodbye to his wife and child)
Dolon (Spy for Troy, killed by Diomedes for
spying on the Greeks)
King Rhesus (King of the Thracians and had
beautiful white horses, Diomedes and
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in the single combat battle)
Phoenix (Achilles’ tutor when he was a
young boy)
Antilochus (Nestor’s son, came in second
place in the chariot race)
Xanthus (Horse stolen by the Greeks, he
prophesized Achilles’ death)
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Odysseus killed him and stole his horses)
Penthesilea (Amazon Queen) killed by
Achilles
UNIT 5: NUMBER THE STARS
Be familiar with major events and characters, use your packet to study.