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Big Question: What makes your region unique? Vocabulary
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Nonfiction Culture Column: Traditional Communities
Key Words 1: feature, landscape, tundra, tropical, temperate, polar, flora, fauna, vegetation, lifestyle
Reading Strategy Compare and Contrast
Key Words 2: rural, merchant, textile, wool, weaving, dwelling, nomad, livelihood, cultivate, harvesting
Passive Voice Shelters are built in a circle. Traditions have been passed down.
Fiction Fox Fires, The Song of the Armadillo
Key Words 3: dye, stilts, border, cattle
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Key Words 4: blanket, spectacular, transform, sparkle, astonish, swish, steam, carve, congratulate, defend, fade, glow
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Big Question: Why do we seek adventure?
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Reading Strategy Point of View
Key Words 1: extreme sport, motive, adrenaline, location, equipment, destination, reward, kayaking, exhilarating, compass
Defining Relative Clauses Using that or where Use material that is dry. Climb to a point where you can see.
Key Words 2: essential, smoke, signal, spark, kindling, tracks, tainted, disinfect, zigzag, shady Key Words 3: grazing, prey, edible, landmark
Key Words 4: sand dune, binoculars, metal detector, bulldozer, supplies, marshmallow, magnifying glass, pocketknife, shortcut, stepping stone, bush, inflate
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Fiction The Treasure of Amelia Island
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Nonfiction How to Survive in the Wild
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Future Passive Your music will be heard all over Bolivia.
Defining Relative Clauses Using who or whose He is the man who found it. He is the person whose land it is.
Big Question: How can we understand a work of art?
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Nonfiction The Secret Life of Paintings
Key Words 1: genre, narrative, tapestry, everyday life, figure, still life, arrangement, realistic, background, interpretation
Reading Strategy Annotating
Key Words 2: moral, foreground, impact, distorted, curved, blend, skull, symbolize, texture, expressive
Non-defining Relative Clauses I called my mom, whose birthday is today. He is in the kitchen, which is downstairs.
Fiction A Dotted World Reading Strategy Analyzing Characters
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Key Words 3: drown, suffering, luxurious, artificial
Key Words 4: depict, shade, frown, reluctant, pick, squint, tin, examine, bunch, barn, yawn, moan
So, such; so … that, such … that Oliver was so tired that he fell asleep. We had such a fun time that we want to meet again tomorrow.
Big Question: How does information technology shape our lives? Vocabulary
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Nonfiction The Internet: Friend or Foe?
Key Words 1: virtual reality, headset, benefit, drawback, break down, addictive, social media, stranger, password, affect
Reading Strategy Drawing Conclusions
Key Words 2: foe, access, tool, up-to-date, publish, cyber-, positive, comparison, download, eyesight
Reported Commands with tell and ask My dad told me to be careful. My teacher asked me to check the facts.
Fiction The Old Me
Key Words 3: offline, sociable, variety, company
Reading Strategy Point of View
Key Words 4: anxiety, confident, avoid, busy, blush, throat, swallow, stammer, dizzy, faint, panic attack, mention
Big Question: How can we save the planet?
Reported Statements and Questions Jess explained that she was shy. Jess asked Karen why she fainted. Jess asked if Karen was feeling better.
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Nonfiction Is This the City of the Future?
Key Words 1: natural resource, global warming, ozone layer, ice cap, landfill, deforestation, overuse, sustainable, compost, aluminum
Future Progressive Future cars will be using solar power.
Reading Strategy Rereading Fiction The Seeds Reading Strategy Predicting and Setting a Purpose for Reading
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Key Words 2: reliable, greenhouse effect, transportation, biofuel, urban, cleanse, energy efficient, wind turbine, insulate, straw Key Words 3: dweller, household, vertically, warmth Key Words 4: scrap, moss, fern, spring, copper, sandstorm, gas mask, iron, barricade, vending machine, sprout, squash
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One, ones, some, and any with Countable and Uncountable Nouns The road is closed. Let’s try that one. There was metal here. She tried to find some. They needed water, but didn’t have any.