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Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students' imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression.
Contents
Scope and Sequence Unit 1 Mickey's Team ThemeReading One: My Time in a Bottle An autobiographical magazine article Reading Two: Mick's Toughest Inning A newspaper op-ed column Vocabulary: Synonyms, context clues, word forms with suffixes Grammar: Past unreal conditionals Unit 2 A Season in Utopia Theme: Utopian Movements Reading One: Early Life at Brook Farm and Concord A book review Reading Two: Making Ends Meet A book review Vocabulary: Synonyms, idioms, word forms Grammar: Noun clauses Unit 3 The Road to Success Theme: Personality Reading One: Gotta Dance A short story Reading Two: Keeping Your Confidence Up An excerpt from a self-help book Vocabulary: Hyphenated adjectives, context clues, idioms Grammar: Identifying and nonidentifying adjective clauses Unit 4 Silent Spring Theme: Trends Reading One: A Fable for Tomorrow A moral tale Reading Two: The Story of Silent Spring An essay Vocabulary: Word forms with prefixes and suffixes, context clues Grammar: Adverb clauses and discourse connectors to express cause and effect Unit 5 What is Lost in Translation Theme: Cross-cultural Insights Reading One: Lost in Translation; The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl Two autobiographical accounts Reading Two: Dear In OneSchool, Many Sagas A newspaper report Vocabulary: Vocabulary classification, synonyms, word forms with suffixes Grammar: Adverb clauses of comparison and contrast Unit 6 The Landscape of Faith Theme: Religion Reading One: Peace Prevails An interview Reading Two: Religion A definition essay Vocabulary: Synonyms, context clues, analogies, word categorization Grammar: Definite and indefinite articles Unit 7 Going into Business Theme: Business Reading One: From Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? A college magazine article Reading Two: Coca Cola Thinks InternationalAn excerpt from a business school textbook Vocabulary: Synonyms, context clues, word forms, idioms Grammar: Infinitives and gerunds Unit 8 When the Soldier Is a Woman... Theme: The Military Reading One: Women at War Personal letters Reading Two: AsmaraJournal: In Peace, Women Warriors Rank Low A news report Vocabulary: Vocabulary categorization, word forms with suffixes, idioms Grammar: Direct and indirect speech Unit 9 The Cellist of Sarajevo Theme: The Arts Reading One: The Cellist of Sarajevo A magazine article Reading Two: The Soloist Fiction Vocabulary: Synonyms, context clues, vocabulary categorization, participles as adjectives, antonyms, figurative language Grammar: Use of the passive voice Unit 10 The Right to Read Theme: First Amendment Issues Reading One: Book Banning Must Be Stopped An essay Reading Two: Some Books That Have Been Banned from School Libraries An annotated list Vocabulary: Synonyms, context clues, word forms Grammar: Verb tense review Grammar Book References
