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All rights reserved. 123456789-MDO-1110090807 UNIT 7 CONTENTS Our Place in the World: History, Culture, and the Author Unit Planning Skills Trace 2 Skills Locator 4 Academic Vocabulary 9 Additional Academic Vocabulary 10 Grammar Focus 11 Selection Resources and Copy Masters Reader’s Workshop: History, Culture, and the Author 13 The Snapping Turtle (Short Story) 17 Out of Bounds (Short Story) 43 Pecos Bill (Tall Tale) 67 Great Reads: from The Pearl (Novella) 89 One Last Time (Memoir) 91 from Dreams from My Father (Autobiography) 117 Reading for Information: from Out of Many, One (Speech) 141 Media Study: Political Cartoons (Image Collection) 159 I Want to Write/Sit-Ins (Poems) 169 Writing Workshop: Cause-and-Effect Essay 187 Copyright © McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin Company. Resource Manager Unit 7 1 Grade 8 Unit 7 Skills Trace Assessment-Based Planning Skills in blue Reader’s The Snapping Out of Bounds Pecos Bill Great Reads: are assessed on Workshop: Turtle pp. 782–799 pp. 800–809 from The Pearl the Unit 7 Test. History, Culture, pp. 766–781 pp. 810–815 and the Author pp. 760–765 Short Story SKILLS Short Story Level: Tall Tale Novella STRAND Level: Easy Challenging Level: Average Level: Average UNIT 1 PLANNING 7 Literary Analysis Influence Influence Cultural Conflict Tall Tale pp. 801, Form (Novella) of Writer’s of Author’s pp. 783, 784, 787, 802, 804, 805, 806, p. 810 Background Background 788, 791, 794, 795, 807, 808, 809 pp. 760–761, pp. 767, 768, 771, 797 764–765 772, 774, 778, 779 Historical and Cultural Influences pp. 762–765 Reading and Analyze the Compare and Make Inferences Visualize pp. 801, Informational Literature pp. Contrast pp. 767, pp. 783, 786, 789, 802, 805, 808, 809 Texts 761, 763–765 770, 771, 775, 790, 791, 792, 777, 779 796, 797 Vocabulary Academic Word Acquisition Word Acquisition Vocabulary p. pp. 767, T767, 780 pp. 783, T783, 798 762 Context Clues— Context Clues General p. T767; p. T783 Analogies p. 780 Homographs p. 798 Writing, Compound- Colons p. 799 Grammar, Complex and Style Sentences p. 781 Speaking, Discuss Discuss pp. 766, Discuss pp. 782, Discuss pp. 800, Discuss pp. 810, Listening, pp. 760–763 T768–T778, 779 T784–T796, 797 T802–T808, 809 T815 Viewing, Analyze Visuals Analyze Visuals Analyze Visuals and Media pp. 768, 773, 776 pp. 784, 793, 795 pp. 802, T807 T = Teacher’s Edition page 2 Unit 7 Resource Manager Grade 8 For additional lesson planning help, see Easy Planner DVD. Linked selections UNIT 7 PLANNING One Last Time Media Study: I Want to Write/ Writing UNIT 1 PLANNING pp. 816–829 from Dreams from from Out of Many, Political Cartoons Sit-Ins Workshop: Cause- My Father One pp. 850–853 pp. 854–859 and-Effect Essay pp. 830–845 pp. 846–849 pp. 860–867 Memoir Autobiography Speech Poems Level: Average Level: Challenging Level: Average Image Collection Level: Easy Author’s Autobiography Characteristics Historical Context Perspective pp. pp. 831, 832, 836, of a Speech pp. pp. 855, 857, 858 817, 818, 821, 823, 838, 839, 841, 842, 847, 849 824, 825, 827 844 Analyze Sensory Recognize Identify Analyze Analyze a Cause- Details pp. 817, Cause-and-Effect Treatment Repetition and-Effect Essay 820, 823, 824, 825, Relationships pp. 846, 848, 849 pp. 855, 856, 857, pp. 861–862, 866 827 pp. 831, 835, 836, Compare and 858 Read a Poem 839, 841, 842, 843, Contrast p. 849 Read a Book p. 826 844 Excerpt p. 859 Word Acquisition Word Acquisition pp. 817, T817, 828 pp. 831, T831, 845 Context Clues— Context Clues p. General p. T817; T831 Similes p. 828 Denotation and Connotation p. 845 Semicolons p. 829 Write a Cause- and-Effect Essay pp. 860–866 Commas After Introductory Words or Phrases p. 866 Additional Writing and Grammar Skills Discuss pp. 816, Discuss pp. 830, Discuss pp. 846, Discuss pp. 850, Discuss pp. 854, Discuss pp. T818–T826, 827 T832–T843, 844 T847–T848, 849 853 T856–T857, 858, 860–862 Analyze Visuals Analyze Visuals Analyze the T859 Create a pp. 818, 822 pp. 832, 837, 840, Visual Aspects of Analyze Visuals p. Multimedia 843 Political Cartoons 856, 857 Presentation p. pp. 851–852 867 Create a Political Cartoon p. 853 Resource Manager Unit 7 3 Grade 8 Unit 7 Skills Locator Skills taught in Unit 7 are listed in the first column. The selections and workshops where students learn or practice each skill appear in the middle column. The third column lists lessons from the Standards Lesson File that can be used to teach or reinforce each skill. Skills Selections And Workshops Standards Lesson File (A) = Assessed on the Unit 7 Test in the Anthology HISTORY MAKERS HISTORY Literary Analysis UNIT 7 PLANNING (CONTINUED) Identify and analyze the influence of Reader’s Workshop 760–765 Literature Lesson 41: Author’s an author’s background (A) The Snapping Turtle 766–781 Perspective Identify and analyze historical context Reader’s Workshop 760–765 Literature Lesson 41: Author’s I Want to Write/Sit-Ins 854–859 Perspective Identify and analyze cultural context Reader’s Workshop 760–765 Identify and analyze cultural conflicts Out of Bounds 782–799 Identify and analyze author’s One Last Time 816–829 Reading Lesson 41: Author’s perspective (A) Perspective Identify, analyze and interpret an Dreams from My Father 830–845 autobiography (A) Identify and analyze characteristics of Pecos Bill 800–809 a tall tale 4 Unit 7 Resource Manager Grade 8 UNIT 7 SKILLS LOCATOR (CONTINUED) Reading and Informational Text Visualize Pecos Bill 800–809 UNIT 7 PLANNING HISTORY MAKERS HISTORY Compare and contrast (A) The Snapping Turtle 766–781 Reading Lesson 12: Comparing and Out of Many, One 846–849 Contrasting Compare and contrast characters The Snapping Turtle 766–781 Reading Lesson 12: Comparing and Contrasting Compare and contrast portrayals Out of Many, One 846–849 Make inferences (A) Out of Bounds 782–799 Reading Lesson 8: Making Inferences Identify and analyze cause-effect Dreams from My Father 830–845 Reading Lesson 7: Recognizing Cause relationships (A) and Effect Identify and analyze repetition I Want to Write/Sit-Ins 854–859 Literature Lesson 34: Repetition and Parallelism Identify and analyze sensory details to One Last Time 816–829 help understanding Identify treatment (purpose, tone, Out of Many, One 846–849 Reading Lesson 3: Determining form) (A) Author’s Purpose Identify characteristics of a keynote Out of Many, One 846–849 speech Vocabulary Analyze analogies to infer literal and The Snapping Turtle 766–781 Vocabulary Lesson 23: Analogies figurative meanings of words Use context clues to determine the Out of Bounds 782–799 Vocabulary Lesson 20: Homonyms and meanings of homographs (A) Homographs Use similes as context clues to One Last Time 816–829 Literature Lesson 29: Simile and determine the meanings of unfamiliar Metaphor words Distinguish between the connotative Dreams from My Father 830–845 Vocabulary Lesson 17: Denotation and and denotative meanings of words (A) Connotation Resource Manager Unit 7 5 Grade 8 UNIT 7 SKILLS LOCATOR (CONTINUED) Writing, Grammar, and Style Write a cause-and-effect essay Writing Workshop 860–867 Writing Lesson 9: Creating Sentence (A) Variety Writing Lesson 16: Cause-and-Effect Order Writing Lesson 21: Writing a Thesis Statement Writing Lesson 30: Cause-and-Effect HISTORY MAKERS HISTORY Essay Writing Lesson 44: Using Precise UNIT 7 PLANNING (CONTINUED) Words Grammar Lesson 20: Missing or Misplaced Commas Use transition words to signal causes Writing Workshop 860–867 Writing Lesson 19: Transitions and effects (A) Combine sentences to form one The Snapping Turtle 766–781 compound-complex sentence (A) Use colons correctly after letter Out of Bounds 782–799 greetings and before lists of items (A) Use semicolons correctly to separate One Last Time 816–829 INTERDISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY parts of a series (A) ANSWER KEY TRANSPARENCIES 6 Unit 7 Resource Manager Grade 8 UNIT 7 SKILLS LOCATOR (CONTINUED) Speaking, Listening, Viewing, and Media Identify visual aspects of illustrations Media Study 850–853 Media Lesson 19: Analyzing Visuals (line, color, texture, and shape) UNIT 7 PLANNING Compare and contrast the style of Media Study 850–853 illustrators Distinguish and compare different Media Study 850–853 Media Lesson 3: Influence of Media points of view in nonprint media on Society sources (political cartoons) Create a political cartoon Media Study 850–853 Create and deliver a multimedia Publishing with Technology 867 Media Lesson 22: Creating a Power presentation Presentation Resource Manager Unit 7 7 Grade 8 Name Date Unit 7 COPY MASTER Academic Vocabulary A.