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Table of Contents: Grades TEXAS Table of Contents GRADES 6–8 Create Your Story 6 7 8 TEXAS Student Edition TryPearsonTexas.com/LiteracyK-8 6 7 8 TEXAS Student Edition 6 7 8 TEXAS Student Edition is a trademark of MetaMetrics, Inc., and is registered in the United States and abroad. The trademarks and names of other companies and products mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. TEXA S TEXA S t u d e n t E d i t i o n S LitSam581L694 TEXA S t u d e n t E d i t i o n S 6 7 8 S t u d e n t E d i t i o n PearsonRealize.com 6 7 8 6 7 8 TryPearsonTexas.com/LiteracyK-8 Join the Conversation: 800-527-2701 Twitter.com/PearsonPreK12 Facebook.com/PearsonPreK12 Copyright Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved. SAM: 9781418290467 Get Fresh Ideas for Teaching: Blog.PearsonSchool.com ADV: 9781418290603 TEXAS Table of Contents The Importance of Literature myPerspectives Texas ensures that students read and understand a variety As individuals we are the sum of the stories that we tell ourselves about of complex texts across multiple genres such as poetry, realistic fiction, ourselves—about love, about fear, about life, about longing. We are adventure stories, historical fiction, mysteries, humor, myths, fantasy, drawn to those stories outside of classrooms because those stories tell us science fiction, and short stories. something about ourselves. They affirm something inside of us. They help These texts have been carefully selected to enable students to encounter us learn more about ourselves and others. That to me is a part of a larger multi-genre texts that are traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse. humanity’s education. It’s understood that part of learning is about learning to become more human, what it means to be a part of the human family. And there’s no discipline that’s more central to that enterprising education Student Edition Thematic Units than the teaching of literature. Grade 6 ....................................................... 4 As long as we continue to live and grow and struggle on the planet, we’re going to be drawn to these stories, and they provide a perfect context for Grade 7 ....................................................... 8 us to do two crucial things that are important in education: One is to help young people learn more about themselves and be proud of who they are. Grade 8 ...................................................... 12 The other is to learn about others and understand that differences can be powerful and positive and that we’re not so different as we think we are. —Dr. Ernest Morrell, myPerspectives Texas Author Multi-Genre List Grade 6 ...................................................... 18 Grade 7 ...................................................... 20 Grade 8 ...................................................... 22 ERNEST MORRELL, PH.D. is the Coyle Professor and the Literacy Education Director at Notre Dame Center, English and Africana Studies Departments Fellow, Institute for Educational Initiatives. 1 TEACH Engaging REINFORCE... Comprehension Strategy Make Inferences ESSENTIAL POINT Remember that you need to consider both the text and the illustrations in all panels in the strip when making inferences—otherwise, you might Cartoon 1: Ghosts Student Edition miss the joke. Grade 6, Calvin and Hobbes Invite students to explain the jokes in “Ghosts” TAKE NOTES and “Do You Like Her?” by making inferences. TEKS 5.F myPerspectives Digital Thematic Units REALISTIC SHORT STORY AUDIO ANNOTATE DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION The Sound of INTERACTIVITY DOWNLOAD Summer Running Classic BL BELOW LEVEL Read “Ghosts” aloud Ray Bradbury Concept Vocabulary to students, without having them look at SUSPENDED If groups are struggling to define the word suspended in paragraph 1, instruct the illustrations. Then, have students read them to use context to define it: First, his feet suspended; then, they rushed. Guide students to the comic and study the illustrations. When understand these are opposite actions. students explain the joke (that Calvin and POSSIBLE RESPONSE: Hobbes freaked themselves out over the Suspended means “temporarily paused.” myPerspectives Digital SCIENCE FEATURE possibility of ghosts and have been awake all AUDIO ANNOTATE night), guide them to realize that they needed INTERACTIVITY DOWNLOAD the text and the illustrations to make their Grade 6, The Sound of Summer Running BACKGROUND AUDIO inferences and to understand the humor of Ray Bradbury is well-known for his award-winning science-fiction novels. This selection, from a novel entitled Dandelion Wine, is a ANNOTATE the comic strip. departure from that genre. The novel is based loosely on Bradbury’s own boyhood summers in the 1920s and 1930s. In this story, he attempts to capture the excitement a boy feels about starting each summer with a new pair of shoes. OL ON LEVEL/SUPPORT After reading 1 ate that night, going home from the show with his mother and Use a digital dictionary, or indicate another strategy you used that father and his brother Tom, Douglas saw the tennis shoes in “Ghosts” aloud, invite students to summarize L helped you determine meaning. the bright store window. He glanced quickly away, but his ankles suspended (suh SPEHND the story it tells, in words and pictures. Explain, were seized, his feet suspended, then rushed. The earth spun; the ihd) v. shop awnings slammed their canvas wings overhead with the MEANING: You may not have realized it, but in order to thrust of his body running. His mother and father and brother Creature Comforts: walked quietly on both sides of him. Douglas walked backward, summarize the comic strip, you had to make watching the tennis shoes in the midnight window left behind. 2 “It was a nice movie,” said Mother. Three Biology-Based Tips inferences. Make sure students notice that Cartoon3 2:Douglas Do murmured,You Like “ItContemporary was. Her? . .” 4 It was June and long past time for buying the special shoes that for Builders The Genzyme Center atrium they used the pictures and text to do so. were quiet as a summer rain falling on the walks. June and the boasts gardens and a chandelier earth full of raw power and everything everywhere in motion. The Mary Beth Cox that diffuses natural light. grass was still pouring in from the country, surrounding the TAKE or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson All rights reserved. NOTESsidewalks, stranding the houses. Any moment the town would 5 capsize1, go down and leave not a stir2 in the clover and weeds. AL ABOVE LEVEL Have students read “Do BACKGROUND Grade 7, Creature Comforts 1. capsize (KAP syz) v. become overturned. Nature is full of examples of amazing solutions to the challenges of AUDIO You Like Her?” and explain the humor. Ask, 2. stir (stur) n. very small movement. survival. From wings that are strong and light to shelters that are comfortable and cool, the creativity of nature results in designs that ANNOTATE In addition to words and images, how does The Sound of work incredibly well. They are also, often, beautiful. These natural solutions inspire people, who are also seeking ways to solve difficult problems. This feature explores how architects, engineers, and other the font, or type, assist in conveying the joke? designers working today look to nature for inspiration. DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION ELPS 2.C.3 LIT20_SE06_TX_U01_B4_SEL.indd 95 EL ENGLISH LEARNERS 2/13/18 5:09 PM Lead them to notice that the cartoonist uses 1 uman architects are the new kids on the block. 2 Basic Vocabulary Use the audio of paragraph 1 of “He glanced (quickly) away.” Play the audio and Advanced Display basic words from thebiophilia reading. an appreciation 3 They’ve been shaping their surroundings for only “The Sound of Summer Running” to help students have students supply the missingH word. Then, Play the audio and have students repeatfor sentenceslife and the living world bold words, capital letters, and a different a few thousand years. Other life forms have done so for learn basic vocabulary they hear during classroom discuss the meaning of the word and the sentence. that use the words. Then, have students create quite a bit longer. Life first appeared on planet Earth instruction and interactions. Consider using these Intermediate Ask students to name some common sentences using the words and read thembiomorphism aloud. using the forms, font to express Calvin’s growing agitation over four billion years ago. Over that staggering stretch of words: show, bright, quickly, earth, and midnight. English words they use daily. Display and read basic Advanced High Play the audio and haveshapes students or patterns of living Hobbes’s questioning. Beginning Ask students to say some common words from the selection and discusstime, creaturestheir meaning. turned thispronounce moist rocky and planetwrite basic into wordsa in thethings selection. English words they use daily. Display basic words Have students repeat the words.home. Play the They audio adapted and to Havediverse students environments. create sentences They that use the basic from the selection and add others. Then, display have students repeat the or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson All rights reserved. sentences.coped with fluctuating conditions.words they Theyfound endured and then tricky read the sentencesbiomimicry systems based on sentence frames based on the reading, such as: survival situations. So italoud. behooves human builders to actual living processes borrow what they can from the B’s. Not from the hive- 30 UNIT 1 • GROWING UP building insects, though they too are instructive. The B’s are three biology-based ideas: biophilia, biomorphism,The Sound of and Summer biomimicry. Running 95 Creature Comforts: Three Biology-Based Tips for Builders 467 LIT20_TE06_TX_U01_B4_SEL.indd 95 2/13/18 10:47 PM DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION LIT20_SE07_TX_U04_B3_SEL.indd 467 BL BELOW LEVEL 2/9/18 12:03 PM LIT20_SE06_TX_U01_A2_M_SEL.indd 30 EL ENGLISH LEARNERS 2/13/18 4:57 PM Notetaking To help Background/Introduction students understand the Cultural Context Review the comic strips and point outorganization Hobbes, of ideas and the “The tiger.
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