Sixth Grade: Final Study Guide

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Geography
Western European Countries & Capitals:
1. London, United Kingdom
2. Dublin, Ireland
3. Reykjavik, Iceland
4.Oslo, Norway
5. Stockholm, Sweden
6. Copenhagen, Denmark
7. Berlin, Germany
8. Amsterdam Netherlands
9. Brussels, Belgium
10. Paris, France
11. Bern, Switzerland
12. Vienna, Austria
13. Rome, Italy
14. Holy See (Vatican City)
15. Madrid, Spain
16. Lisbon, Portugal
17. Andorra La Vella, Andorra
18. San Marino, San Marino
19. Luxembourg, Luxembourg
20. Monaco, Monaco

Peninsulas: Iberian, Italian, Balkan, Scandinavian, Jutland
Mountains: Pyrenees, Alps, Ural, Caucasus, Carpathian, Apennines
Straits: Strait of Gibraltar, Strait of Dover, English Channel, Bosporus Strait
Seas: North Sea, Norwegiain Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Bay of Biscay
Rivers: Rhine,Loire, Seine


Key Terms: Mediterranean Sea, peninsula, fjord, Ural Mountains, plain, city-state
polis, Aegean Sea, oligarchy, Athens, philosopher, Aristotle, Alexander the Great,

(Possibly- republic, Senate, patrician, plebeian, Julius Caesar, empire, Augustus, Constantine)

Research the following: Reading of Antigone/Classical Greece Notes
Myth,  Polytheism, Monotheism, Epic Poem, Pantheon, post and lintel, prehistory
Calendar, Chronology, time, history, circa, decade, century, millennium.

Pope Gregory XIII

Julius Caesar

Gregorian Calendar- 2/24/1582

Julian Calendar 45 BCE- 1582

3. The World At Your Fingertips: Citizen, Economics, Government, Five Themes of Geography, Scarcity, Five Fields of Social Studies, history, culture.

7th Grade: Final Study Guide

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Capitals & Countries:
Central America
1. Mexico City, Mexico
2. Guatemala City, Guatemala
3. San Salvador, El Salvador
4. Belmopan, Belize
5. Tegucigalpa, Honduras
6. Managua, Nicaragua
7. San Jose, Costa Rica
8. Panama City, Panama

Caribbean Islands (Greater Antilles)
9. Havana, Cuba
10. Kingston, Jamaica
11. Port-Au Prince, Haiti
12. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
13. San Juan, Puerto Rico (US)
14. Trinidad & Tobago

South America
15. Caracas, Venezuela
16. Georgetown, Guyana
17. Paramaribo, Suriname
18. Cayenne, French Guiana (Fr.)
19. Bogota, Colombia
20. Quito, Ecuador
21. Lima, Peru
22. La Paz & Sucre, Bolivia
23. Asuncion, Paraguay
24. Brasilia, Brazil
25. Montevideo, Uruguay
26. Buenos Aires, Argentina
27. Santiago, Chile

Bodies of Water: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean,
Pacific Ocean, Strait of Magellan, Amazon River, Lake Titicaca, Drake Passage

Mountains: Andes, Mt. Aconcagua, Sierra Madre Oriental, Sierra Madre Occidental

Special Interests: Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), Easter Island (Chile), Baja California
Lesser Antilles, Yucatan Peninsula

Key Terms: tributary, deforestation, Tropical Zone, El Niño, hieroglyph
chinampa, Machu Picchu, Hernán Cortés, Montezuma II, Francisco Pizarro
Atahualpa, Columbian Exchange, peninsular, criollo, mestizo, encomienda
Father Miguel Hidalgo, Treaty of Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Gadsden Purchase
West Indies, dependency, mulatto
 Calendar, Chronology, time, history, circa, decade, century, millennium.

Pope Gregory XIII

Julius Caesar

Gregorian Calendar- 2/24/1582

Julian Calendar 45 BCE- 1582

3. The World At Your Fingertips: Citizen, Economics, Government, Five Themes of Geography, Scarcity, Five Fields of Social Studies, history, culture.

6th Grade Table of Contents: 4th Quarter update

16. Establishing Modern Japan
17. History & Government: Australia/New Zealand
18. Zoomers 5/2-5/6
19. Current Event: Australia
20. Economies & Culture: Australia/New Zealand
21. Zoomer 5/9-5/13
22. Europe Map
23. European Foldable
24. Antarctica
25. Ancient Asia & Asia Today
26. A Land of Varied Riches
27. Current Event: Europe
28. Ancient Greece

7th Grade Study Guide: World War I & II, The Soviet Union, & Eastern Europe

nationalism, colonialism, Austria-Hungary, dual monarchy, World War I, alliance

Adolf Hitler, fascism, Holocaust, World War II, NATO, Iron Curtain, puppet government , one-party system, Joseph Stalin, collective farm, Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union, Cold War, propaganda, private propertyrights, Nikita Khrushchev, deposed, détente, Mikhail Gorbachev, parliamentary, republic, coalition government, ethnic cleansing, Duma, Treaty of Versailles

Additional terms: Bay of Pigs, Sputnik, Benito Mussolini,

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower,

John F. Kennedy, Kosovo, S. Milosevic, Emperor Hirohito , J. Robert Oppenheimer

Sixth Grade: Ancient Asia & East Asia Today Test Guide: Update

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East Asia Geography: 

Australia, China, Fiji, Japan, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, 

New Zealand, North Korea, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Taiwan,

Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Bodies of Water:

Coral Sea, Tasman Sea, Philippine Sea, Luzon Strait, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Pacific Ocean, Huang He (Yellow River) Chang Jiang River

Islands of Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu

Landforms:
Plateau of China, Gobi Desert, Mt. Everest, Mt. Fuji, The Outback, Great Barrier Reef

Current Event: Russia & Australia

Dear Students:

 As announced, Current Events will be mandatory this week. Visit one of the following links and select a story of your choice. The story must relate to the five fields of social studies- history, government, economics, geography, or culture. There are two new additional sites for diversity of reliable sources and most current event stories will be accepted. You may also follow this week's goal to study our two different geographical regions.

7th Grade- Find a current event that took place in Russia.

6th Grade- Find a current event that took place in Australia.

        (And...) Do not forget to write a two paragraph summary of the article in your own words (copy & pasting is not acceptable).

 Be sure to include your source of information and a summary of the article. Any questions?

 Signing Out- Mr. A

International/US/ United Kingdom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

http://www.nytimes.com/

Russia

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/index.php

http://english.ruvr.ru/

Australia

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/

http://www.smh.com.au/

Local

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/

UK/International

http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/critical-issues/

Seventh Grade Table of Contents: 4th Quarter

1.Traders, Colonist, and Explorers
2. The Age of Revolution
3. Zoomers 4/4- 4/8
4. How To Write An Essay Notes
5. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To the Galaxy (The Movie)
6. United Nations HW & Review
7. The Russian Empire
8. Current Events: Eastern Europe
9. Zoomer 4/18- 4/22
10. Growth of Ideas Test
11. Zoomers 4/25 -4/29

Sixth Grade Table of Contents: 4th Quarter

1. Physical Geography (East Asia & Oceania)
2. Zoomers 4/4- 4/8
3. How To Write An Essay Notes
4. Map of East Asia & Oceania (Drawn)
5. Ancient China
6. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy (The Movie)
7. Ancient China Notes
8. Establishing Modern China
9. Zoomers 4/18- 4/22
10. Current Event: East Asia
11. Government of East Asia
12. Zoomers 4/25-4/29
13. 15 Product Made in Asia (Homework)
14. Economics of East Asia
15. Ancient Japan