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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 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 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 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) 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.