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Meeting Challenges
This theme centers around personal challenges and how people overcome them.
This theme centers around personal challenges and how people overcome them.
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Vocabulary
Island Of the Blue Dolphins
lair ravine gnaw headland pursuit famished resourceful blazing Satchel Page
unique mocking weary vigor barrier endure resist strive Ten Mile Day
barren deafening lurched prying surveying allegiance emblem sustenance adversity |
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Doing the Right Thing
Why is honesty important? What makes people want to do the right thing? What are the risks in helping others?
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Artists and Inventors
For this unit we will be reading stories about different artists and inventors and how they influence and inspire others and have/had an impact on society. Think about these essential questions as we read a variety of stories:
- What do people gain from the work of artists and inventors?
- How do artists and inventors inspire us?
- How do artists and inventors have an impact on society?
- How do artists and inventors promote their work?
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Leonardo's Horse
bronze midst rival fashioned muse inspired medium gallery The Dinosaurs of
Waterhouse Hawkins erected mold occasion proportion tidied archaic replica uncanny Mahalia Jackson
poverty sorrow harmonize melody tempo symphony |
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Fairy Tales -