Unit Contents

1 Unit Preview
Unit Opener
? The Big Question:
How does the natural world affect us?.. . . . . . . . . 2

Reading 1: Short Story

Prepare to Read Build Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Literary Words: imagery, sensory details.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Academic Words: cultural, cycle, migration, tradition. . . . . . 6
Word Study: Prefixes in-, re-, over-, un-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Reading Strategy: Predict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Reading Selection “The Salmon People”.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Review and Listening and Speaking: Reader’s Theater and
Practice Response to Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Grammar Adjectives after Indefinite Pronouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Writing Write a Description of an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Reading 2: Science
Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Key Words: nonliving, nutrients, organism, photosynthesis,
reproduce, species. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Academic Words: consume, environment, interact, survive.. 20
Word Study: Decoding Strategies: Digraphs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Reading Strategy: Preview for Main Idea and Details. . . . . . 21
Reading Selection “Ecosystems: The Systems of Nature”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Review and Listening and Speaking: In Your Own Words and Read
Practice for Fluency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Grammar Subject-Verb Agreement: Non-Count and
Irregular-Plural Nouns.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Comparison Structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Writing Write a Description of a Place. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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 Reading 3: Short Story/Poem
Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Literary Words: figurative language, personification,
setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Academic Words: adapt, capable, concluded, rely. . . . . . . . . 36
Word Study: Compound Nouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Reading Strategy: Visualize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Reading Selection “Ali, Child of the Desert” by Jonathan London. . . . . . . . . 38
“Desert Women” by Pat Mora. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Review and Listening and Speaking: Reader’s Theater and Response
Practice to Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Grammar Simple Sentences: Consistent Forms, Parallel Structure.. . . 48
Adjectival Phrases: Adjective Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Writing Write a Description of a Person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Unit Wrap-Up
Link the Readings
Critical Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Media Literacy & Projects.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Further Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Put It All Together
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Presentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Writing Workshop: Write a Descriptive Essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Test Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Language of Art
Painting the American Landscape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

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2 Unit Preview
Unit Opener
? The Big Question:
Where can a journey take you?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Reading 1: Myth
Prepare to Read Build Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Literary Words: character, plot, point of view. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Academic Words: abandon, attribute, finally, react. . . . . . . . 68
Word Study: Roots vict, laps, mem, mand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Reading Strategy: Identify Problems and Solutions.. . . . . . . 69
Reading Selection from Tales from the Odyssey retold by Mary Pope
Osborne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Review and Listening and Speaking: Reader’s Theater and Response
Practice to Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Grammar Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Simple Sentences: Pronouns and Modifiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Writing Write a Story from a Different Point of View. . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Reading 2: Science
Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Key Words: biologists, herd, landscape, magnetic,
range, starvation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Academic Words: approaches, approximate,
area, migrate.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Word Study: Words as Multiple Parts of Speech. . . . . . . . . . 83
Reading Strategy: Recognize Cause and Effect. . . . . . . . . . . 83
Reading Selection “Migrating Caribou”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
“Magnets in Animals” by Darlene R. Stille. . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Review and Listening and Speaking: In Your Own Words and
Practice Read for Fluency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Grammar More on Parallel Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Prepositions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Writing Write a Story with a Starter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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 Reading 3: Novel
Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Literary Words: simile, metaphor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Academic Words: adjust, emphasize, immigration, journal.. . . 96
Word Study: Words Ending in y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Reading Strategy: Make Inferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Reading Selection from The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung
by Laurence Yep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Review and Listening and Speaking: Dramatic Reading and
Practice Response to Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Grammar Complex Sentences with Adverbial Clauses of Time. . . . . . 106
Expressions of Quantity and Subject-Verb Agreement. . . . 107
Writing Write a Personal Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Unit Wrap-Up
Link the Readings
Critical Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Media Literacy & Projects.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Further Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Put It All Together
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Storytelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Writing Workshop: Write a Short Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Test Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Language of Art
Traveling the Electronic Superhighway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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3 Unit Preview
Unit Opener
? The Big Question:
What defines success?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Reading 1: Social Studies

Prepare to Read Build Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Key Words: enterprise, excelled, famine, satellite,
scholarships, self-portrait.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Academic Words: aid, commitment, global, priority.. . . . . . . 126
Word Study: Prefixes under-, re-, multi-, inter-. . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Reading Strategy: Connect Ideas.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Reading Selection “Success Stories” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Review and Listening and Speaking: In Your Own Words and Read
Practice for Fluency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Grammar Complex Sentences with Restrictive Adjectival Clauses. . . . 134
Complex Sentences with Nonrestrictive
Adjectival Clauses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Writing Write a Compare-and-Contrast Paragraph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Reading 2: Poems
Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Literary Words: extended metaphor, repetition, stanza.. . . . 139
Academic Words: distinctive, interpret, precise, pursue. . . . . 140
Word Study: Homophones.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Reading Strategy: Identify Author’s Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Reading Selection “If” by Rudyard Kipling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
“A Game of Hide and Seek”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Review and Listening and Speaking: Dramatic Reading and
Practice Response to Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Grammar Gerunds as Subjects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Gerunds as Objects after Verbs and Prepositions. . . . . . . . . 149
Writing Write a Problem-and-Solution Paragraph.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

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 Reading 3: Short Story
Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Literary Words: character motivation, suspense. . . . . . . . . . . 153
Academic Words: considerable, objective, participate,
previous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Word Study: Inflections -ed and -ing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Reading Strategy: Predict 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Reading Selection “The Marble Champ” by Gary Soto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Review and Listening and Speaking: Reader’s Theater and Response
Practice to Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Grammar Infinitives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Clarifying with Appositives and Colons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Writing Write a News Article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Unit Wrap-Up
Link the Readings
Critical Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Media Literacy & Projects.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Further Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Put It All Together
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Interview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Writing Workshop: Write an Expository Essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Test Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Language of Art
Self-Portraits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

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4 Unit Preview
Unit Opener
? The Big Question:
Can we see change as it happens?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Reading 1: Science
Prepare to Read Build Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Key Words: fertilizers, fossil fuels, hybrid, microscopic,
resources, solar power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Academic Words: accommodate, alternative, enable,
regulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Word Study: Related Words.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Reading Strategy: Skim and Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Reading Selection “Changing Earth” .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Review and Listening and Speaking: In Your Own Words and Read
Practice for Fluency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Grammar Present Perfect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Conjunctive Adverbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Writing Write an Advertisement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Reading 2: Social Studies

Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Key Words: civil rights, federal court, justices, racism,
segregation, troops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Academic Words: apparent, integrate, symbol, undertake.. . . 202
Word Study: Capitalizing Proper Nouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Reading Strategy: Draw Conclusions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Reading Selection from Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Review and Listening and Speaking: In Your Own Words and
Practice Read for Fluency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Grammar Compound and Complex Sentences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Agreement in Compound and Complex Sentences. . . . . . . 213
Writing Write a Persuasive Paragraph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

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 Reading 3: Novel
Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Literary Words: conflict, foreshadowing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Academic Words: circumstances, gender, labor, period. . . . . 218
Word Study: Spelling Long e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Reading Strategy: Summarize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Reading Selection from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. . . . . . . 220
Review and Listening and Speaking: Dramatic Reading and
Practice Response to Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Grammar Possessive Nouns and Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Antecedent-Pronoun and Subject-Verb Agreement. . . . . . . 229
Writing Write a Review.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Unit Wrap-Up
Link the Readings
Critical Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Media Literacy & Projects.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Further Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Put It All Together
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Speech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Writing Workshop: Write a Persuasive Essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Test Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Language of Art
Moving Through Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

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5 Unit Preview
Unit Opener
? The Big Question:
Why do we explore new frontiers?. . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Reading 1: Social Studies

Prepare to Read Build Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Key Words: civilizations, expeditions, exploration,
markets, navigator, trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Academic Words: conducted, established,
financed, varied. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Word Study: Synonyms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Reading Strategy: Make Generalizations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Reading Selection “Early Explorers” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Review and Listening and Speaking: In Your Own Words and
Practice Read for Fluency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Grammar Past Perfect: had + Past Participle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Compound and Complex Sentences with Past Perfect.. . . . 257
Writing Write a Cause-and-Effect Paragraph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Reading 2: Social Studies

Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Key Words: calculate, depicted, expeditions, magnetic,
mariners, navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Academic Words: chart, equipment, founded, symbol. . . . . . . 262
Word Study: Spelling ie / ei. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Reading Strategy: Take Notes about Main Ideas and
Key Details.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Reading Selection “Navigation Then and Now: Using GPS”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Review and Listening and Speaking: In Your Own Words and
Practice Read for Fluency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Grammar Imperatives and will for Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Sequence Words, Phrases, and Clauses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Writing Write an Instructional Paragraph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

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Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Literary Words: hyperbole, onomatopoeia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Academic Words: alternative, fundamental, invisible,
unique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Word Study: Frequently Misspelled Words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Reading Strategy: Skim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Reading Selection “A World within the Hollow”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Review and Listening and Speaking: Reader’s Theater and
Practice Response to Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Grammar Adjectival Phrases: Comparatives and Superlatives. . . . . . . 286
Adjectival Phrases: Superlatives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Writing Write a Classifying Paragraph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Unit Wrap-Up
Link the Readings
Critical Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Media Literacy & Projects.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Further Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Put It All Together
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Team Presentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Writing Workshop: Write an Instructional Essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Test Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Language of Art
The Roots of Frontier Culture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

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 Unit Contents
6 Unit Preview
Unit Opener
? The Big Question:
How do we know what is true?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Reading 1: Myths
Prepare to Read Build Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Literary Words: myth, hero, heroine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Academic Words: evaluate, infer, manipulate, role.. . . . . . . . 306
Word Study: Antonyms.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Reading Strategy: Compare and Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Reading Selection “How Glooskap Found the Summer” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
“Persephone and the Pomegranate Seeds” . . . . . . . . . . 310
Review and Listening and Speaking: Reader’s Theater and Response
Practice to Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Grammar Reported Speech: Statements and Questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Past Progressive with Adverbial Clauses.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Writing Write an Introductory Paragraph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Reading 2: Social Studies

Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Key Words: constellations, discoveries, galaxy,
phenomenon, solar system, telescope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Academic Words: identified, philosopher,
predictable, theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Word Study: Spelling Long i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Reading Strategy: Evaluate New Information. . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Reading Selection “Early Astronomers”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Review and Listening and Speaking: In Your Own Words and
Practice Read for Fluency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Grammar Participial Adjectives: Formation and Meaning. . . . . . . . . . . 328
Prepositions and Infinitives with Participial Adjectives. . . . 329
Writing Write a Paragraph with a Main Idea and Supporting
Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

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 Reading 3: Science
Prepare to Read Build Background.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Key Words: accurate, confessed, DNA, eyewitnesses,
identify, testify. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Academic Words: complex, legislation, procedure, specific. . . . 334
Word Study: Root Words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Reading Strategy: Evaluate Written Information.. . . . . . . . . 335
Reading Selection “Proving Innocence–A Matter of Life and Death” . . . . 336
Review and Listening and Speaking: In Your Own Words and
Practice Read for Fluency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Grammar Future for Prediction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Modals of Possibility and Advice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Punctuation of Direct Quotations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Quoting Sources.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Writing Write a Paragraph with Quotations and Citations. . . . . . . . 346

Unit Wrap-Up
Link the Readings
Critical Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Media Literacy & Projects.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Further Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Put It All Together
Listening and Speaking Workshop: Oral Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Writing Workshop: Write a Research Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Test Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Language of Art
Otherworldly Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

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