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Unit
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GROWING UP |
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Part 1 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Content: Social Studies
Review and Practice
Connect to Literature: Fables and Myths
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The Hare and the Tortoise,
Aesop
Why Rattlesnake Has Fangs,
Cheryl Giff |
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Using Adjectives
to Describe
Skills for Writing: Writing
Correct Sentences
Writing Assignment: Descriptive
Sentences |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Part 2 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Literature: The Novel
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From Later Gator, Laurence Yep |
Review and Practice
Connect to Content: Science
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Using the Conjunction and
Skills for Writing: Writing Compound Sentences
Writing Assignment: Descriptive Sentences |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Put It All Together |
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Objectives
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Group Presentation
Writing Workshop: Descriptive Paragraph
Projects
Further Reading |
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Unit 2 |
CHALLENGES AND CHOICES |
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Part 1 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Content: Social Studies
Review and Practice
Connect to Literature: Personal Narrative
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He Was the Same Age as My Sister, Mieke C. Malandra |
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Using the Simple Past
Skills for Writing: Writing a Narrative Paragraph
Writing Assignment: Narrative Paragraph |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Part 2 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Literature: Historical Fiction
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From A Boat to Nowhere, Maureen Crane Wartski |
Review and Practice
Connect to Content: Social Studies
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Sudan’s "Lost Boys" Start New Lives |
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Using the Conjunction but
Skills for Writing: Using a Variety of Sentence Types
Writing Assignment: Personal Narrative |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Put It All Together |
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Objectives
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Panel Discussion
Writing Workshop: Personal Narrative
Projects
Further Reading |
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Unit
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MYSTERIOUS WAYS |
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Part 1 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Content: Science, Social Studies
Review and Practice
Connect to Literature: Short Stories
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Truth or Lies? George Shannon |
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: The Present Progressive
Skills for Writing: Using Prepositional Phrases
Writing Assignment: Descriptive Paragraph |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Part 2 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Literature: Mystery Stories
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Teenage Detectives, Carol Farley and Elizabeth
Dearl |
Review and Practice
Connect to Content: Science
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How to Make a Friend Disappear
Water Trick |
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Imperatives
Skills for Writing: Writing Clues
Writing Assignment: Clues for a Treasure Hunt |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Put It All Together |
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Objectives
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Instructions to Solve
a Problem
Writing Workshop: Instructions for a Science Experiment
Projects
Further Reading |
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Unit
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CONFLICT |
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Part 1 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Content: Social Studies
Review and Practice
Connect to Literature: Letter and Poems
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Letter Home, Lance-Corporal Frank
Earley
Can We Forget? Cora Inez Keyes
Grass, Carl Sandburg |
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Using so as a Conjunction
Skills for Writing: Cause-and-Effect Organization in Writing
Writing Assignment: Cause-and-Effect Paragraph |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Part 2 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Literature: Diary
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From Zlata’s Diary, Zlata Filipovic |
Review and Practice
Connect to Content: Social Studies
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The Physical World: The Balkans |
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Using Pronoun Referents
Skills for Writing: Writing Eyewitness Reports
Writing Assignment: Eyewitness Report |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Put It All Together |
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Objectives
Listening and Speaking Workshop: TV News Show
Writing Workshop: Report of a Historical Event
Projects
Further Reading |
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Unit
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WE CAN BE HEROES |
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Part 1 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Content: Social Studies
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Heroes: Yesterday and Today |
Review and Practice
Connect to Literature: Music, Art, and Poetry
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Wind Beneath My Wings, Bette Midler
Ethiopia, Sebastião Salgado
From Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman |
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: The Passive Voice
Skills for Writing: Using Time Phrases to Write a Biography
Writing Assignment: Biography
Check Your Knowledge |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Part 2 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Literature: Play
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From The Diary of Anne Frank: The Play, Frances Goodrich
and Albert Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman |
Review and Practice
Connect to Content: Art, Social Studies
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
Skills for Writing: Writing Reviews
Writing Assignment: Review |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Put It All Together |
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Objectives
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Speech
Writing Workshop: Letter to the Editor
Projects
Further Reading |
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Unit 6 |
THE FUTURE |
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Part 1 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Content: Science, Social Studies
Review and Practice
Connect to Literature: Interview
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Interview with an Astronaut: Dan Bursch |
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Using will for the Future
Skills for Writing: Writing Notes for a Research Report
Writing Assignment: Notes |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Part 2 |
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Objectives
Prepare to Read
Focus on Literature: Novel
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From The Time Warp Trio: 2095, Jon Scieszka |
Review and Practice
Connect to Content: Science
Link the Readings
Connect to Writing
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Grammar: Using be going to for the Future
Skills for Writing: Making Sentence Outlines
Writing Assignment: Sentence Outlines |
Check Your Knowledge |
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Put It All Together |
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Objectives
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Presentation
Writing Workshop: Research Report
Projects
Further Reading |
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Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
Credits |