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Big Question: How do we express feelings? Vocabulary
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Nonfiction Help! Dealing with Difficult Feelings
Key Words 1: stomp your feet, smile, annoyed, drive someone crazy, apologize, nervous, upset, shake Key Words 2: sweat, tantrum, scream, pout, unhappy, proud, hug Key Words 3: rant, calm down, pull, automatic Key Words 4: embarrassed, stand out, stressful, lucky, strict, shy, courage, lost, relieved, follow
Interrupted Past While I was writing a poem yesterday, I started to feel better.
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Fiction It’s All in the Mind
Big Question: What can space exploration teach us?
Nonfiction Exploring Space
Reading Strategy Predicting from Pictures
Reflexive Pronouns Cassini destroyed itself by crashing into Saturn. Comparatives with -er more, less, and than Uranus is colder than Earth. Enceladus is more beautiful than Earth.
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Big Question: Is technology good or bad?
Reading Nonfiction How Can Technology Change My Life? Reading Strategy Identifying the Main Idea and Details Fiction ELSA Reading Strategy Identifying the Main Idea and Details
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Key Words 1: invention, Internet, allow, connect, search engine, technology, screen, mobile device Key Words 2: smartphone, drone, sensor, software, program, app, animation Key Words 3: image, selfie, display, manufacturer Key Words 4: owner, female, human being, memory, natural, eyebrow, facial expression, react, puzzled, body language
Present Perfect Questions Have you ever lived for a week without technology? Used to / didn’t use to I used to be like an answering machine. I didn’t use to select any music myself.
Big Question: How do we entertain ourselves?
Reading Nonfiction The World of Blogging Reading Strategy Annotating Reading Strategy Identifying Plot, Character, and Setting
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Key Words 1: leisure, imagination, drama, play, rehearse, craft, collect, origami Key Words 2: blog, board game, vlog, post, upload, link, click Key Words 3: review, design, express yourself, comment Key Words 4: lonely, excitement, distracted, whisper, move, comforting, shake hands, pay attention, behavior, surroundings
Present Perfect with ever and never Many kids have never tried it. Present Perfect with already, just, and yet We’ve just moved here. I’ve already been here. No one has spoken to me yet.
Big Question: What can history teach us?
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Fiction Moving Out and Moving On
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Key Words 1: space probe, space station, gravity, scientific experiment, GPS, observe, constellation, Milky Way Key Words 2: solar system, planet, spacecraft, launch, satellite, astronaut, surface Key Words 3: land, atmosphere, on board, orbit Key Words 4: disappointed, float, translate, ring, universe, asteroid, seatbelt, poison, space, galaxy
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Fiction Biking Around Space
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Reading Strategy Identifying the Main Idea and Details
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Reading Strategy Identifying Plot, Setting, and Character
First Conditional If we don’t leave now, you’ll be late.
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Nonfiction The Story of Chocolate
Key Words 1: century, document, explorer, civilization, historical site, preserve, thousand, mosaic Key Words 2: bean, pod, cacao tree, vanilla, cinnamon, chili, bitter Key Words 3: fake, flavor, currency, fashionable Key Words 4: basement, chilly, junk, messy, heap, stare, scan, rub, reveal, layer
Present Perfect Questions with how long How long has chocolate existed? For 4,000 years.
Reading Strategy Identifying a Sequence of Events Fiction Hidden Pictures Reading Strategy Identifying Cause and Effect
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Present Perfect (for/since) vs. Past Simple I haven’t looked in these boxes for a long time. Karen found a mysterious painting.